Carmel Gmunden

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Carmelite Church and Monastery in Gmunden (Traundorf district)

The Karmel Gmunden is a monastery of the Discalced Carmelites and is located in the Upper Austrian municipality of Gmunden in the Gmunden district . The monastery church was consecrated in 1835 . The monastery is located in the Gmunden deanery of the Linz diocese . The church and the monastery, which was founded in 1828, are under monument protection .

history

Interior of the monastery church
The former bath house

The Herberstorffsche Freihaus was first mentioned in 1627. On September 13, 1828 Magdalena, Joseph and Andreas Traweger from Gmunden made this house, the adjacent property, a small forest, a meadow and a foundation capital of 13,000 guilders available for the establishment of a monastery. The foundation came about at the suggestion of her maid Aloisia Petrovich. The Gmunden Carmelite Monastery was settled from the Prague convent . On February 12, 1828, Emperor Franz I gave permission for a new foundation. The foundation date for the Gmundner Konvent is July 5, 1828. The renovation work began in 1829. The existing secular building was converted into a monastery and on September 13, 1832 the foundation stone for a new church was laid. The Viennese master builder Joseph Georg Kornhäusel was responsible ; the Viennese military doctor Dr. Called Seutin.

A so-called “ measurement reading point ” has been documented since 1829 . The church was inaugurated in 1835. In 1844 the Würzburg Monastery was founded in Gmunden. In 1857 the neighboring building, the former bath house, was acquired and added to the monastery complex. In 1898 the building stock was increased. The monastery was preserved during the Nazi era, but had to take in the sisters from the Graz and Mayerling monasteries, which were closed at the time . The facility was renovated in the second half of the 20th century. The Gmundner builder and architect Franz König-Hollerwöger played a key role in the redesign .

Church and monastery

The Discalced Carmelite Sisters are a branch of the Carmel that St. Teresa of Avila was reformed and became independent in 1593. The Carmelites live contemplatively .

In 1964–1966, the church was redesigned to meet the needs of the changes made after the Second Vatican Council . The high altar , the side altars , the pulpit , the gallery , the communion bench and the prayer chairs have been removed. A popular altar was erected and the sisters' choir was arranged so that they could see the new altar. Since this complete renovation in the 1960s, the church has been kept in very simple and clear forms. The altar area is raised by two steps. There are some modern style pictures on the side walls. In contrast to the modern furnishings, a Gothic statue of Our Lady of the 16th century was attached to the front wall of the presbytery . The monastery building was completely renovated from 1971 to 1974.

literature

  • Seraphine Huttner (Ed.): 150 years of Carmelites in the city of Gmunden. Festschrift on the 150th anniversary of the Carmel Monastery in Gmunden 1828-1978 , Gmunden 1978.
  • Association for the publication of a district book Gmunden (ed.): The district of Gmunden and its communities. From the beginning to the present . Upper Austrian Provincial Publishing House , Linz 1991.
  • Antonio Sagarody, 175 years of Karmel Gmunden , Wels 2003.
  • Musealverein Gmunden (Hrsg.): The Gmunden paperback. 100 years of the museum association . Salzkammergut Media, Gmunden 2007, ISBN 3-901572-11-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Musealverein Gmunden (Hrsg.): The Gmunden-Taschenbuch. 100 years of the museum association . Salzkammergut Media, Gmunden 2007, ISBN 3-901572-11-2 , p. 99-100 .
  2. ^ Upper Austria - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. ( Memento from June 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) . Federal Monuments Office , as of June 27, 2014 (PDF).
  3. ^ A b Anton Klein: History of Christianity in Austria and Styria . tape 7 . Vienna 1842, p. 230 f .
  4. ↑ a b c Karmel Gmunden. Carmelite Convent Gmunden, December 1, 2011, accessed on July 22, 2016 .
  5. ^ Heinrich Marchetti: Gmunden. Community mirror and history . In: Association for the publication of a district book Gmunden (Hrsg.): The district of Gmunden and its communities . From the beginning to the present. Upper Austria. Landesverlag. Linz 1991. p. 864.
  6. ↑ Raimund Bruderhofer: The Gmundner Carmel in the Nazi era . In: Seraphine Huttner (Ed.): 150 years of Carmelite women in the city of Gmunden . Gmunden 1978, p. 56-66 .
  7. ↑ Carmelites in Gmunden. Section for cultural assets of the Austrian orders, December 1, 2011, accessed on July 23, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Gmunden Carmelite Convent. Superior Conference of the Austrian Religious Congregations, December 1, 2012, accessed on July 22, 2016 .

Coordinates: 47 ° 55 ′ 3.8 ″  N , 13 ° 48 ′ 11 ″  E