Carmel of St. Joseph and St. Teresa

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Carmel of St. Joseph and St. Teresa seen from the city

The Carmel of St. Joseph and St. Teresa is a monastery of the Discalced Carmelites in Innsbruck .

history

The former monastery church in Wilten

The lithographer Johann Nepomuk Kravogl and his wife Theresia tried for many years to found a Carmelite monastery in Innsbruck. There was resistance from liberal circles as well as from Wilten Abbey , which feared competition for donations from the population. On October 11, 1845, the imperial approval was received and Kravogl acquired the so-called Memminger Schlössl in Wilten for 12,000  guilders , a residence dating back to the Middle Ages, which had belonged to the Neustift monastery from 1634 to 1794 . In May 1846 the first three Carmelites came with the prioress Maria Aloisia Diechtl from the mother monastery on the Hradschin in Prague.

Since the residence turned out to be unsuitable for a monastery , a new building was built in the Anger des Schlössl, for which the foundation stone was laid in 1847. In 1848 it was available, on July 20, 1850 the monastery church of St. Consecrated to Teresa of Ávila . The construction of the monastery and the maintenance of the nuns was made possible by benefactors such as Kravogl, the former governor Clemens von Brandis or the Wilten abbot Alois Röggl. The convent grew rapidly, in 1856 it already consisted of 14 choir sisters and three lay sisters . During the Second World War, the church and parts of the monastery were destroyed by bombing raids in 1943/44. It could only be rebuilt in the 1950s.

If the monastery was initially surrounded by fields, it was soon in the middle of the rapidly growing city, and in 1856 today's main train station was built nearby. Since the location no longer met the needs of the Carmelite nuns who lived in a cloister , there were plans to move the monastery from the beginning of the 20th century. In the 1990s, the city of Innsbruck made a plot of land above Mühlau on the slope of the Nordkette available for a new building. In the invited competition , two equal first prizes were awarded to Margarethe Heubacher-Sentobe  and Schlögl & Süß Architects. The design was carried out by Heubacher-Sentobe. The new building, built from 1999 to 2003, was consecrated on June 27, 2003 by Archbishop Alois Kothgasser .

After the sisters moved, the monastery buildings in Wilten were demolished in 2004 and residential buildings were built in their place. The listed former monastery church was preserved and renovated.

description

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Half of the monastery is dug into the steep slope and surrounded by a spacious garden. The spacious building complex is arranged around a central, square cloistered courtyard modeled on a traditional cloister . The cells with loggias in front are located in the south wing on the upper floor and the first basement . The common rooms and a large terrace are located on the level of the Klausurhof. The simple white facades of the building correspond in their reduced symbolism to the simplicity and rigor of the order.

The church is recognizable as a separate structure and has a bell tower with the Carmel coat of arms. In the interior designed by Leo Zogmayer , the model of a choir room with elliptically arranged rows of chairs, in the focal points of which the altar and ambo are arranged as mobile elements, was realized. The cloister grid separates the nuns' choir from that of the guests. The interior was subsequently significantly changed artistically and architecturally compared to the original state.

literature

  • Franz Caramelle, Richard Frischauf: The monasteries and monasteries of Tyrol . Tyrolia - Athesia, Innsbruck - Bozen 1985, ISBN 3-7022-1549-2 , p. 258-259 .
  • Franz-Heinz Hye: 150 years of the Carmelite Convent Innsbruck (1846–1996). In: Innsbruck informs, July / August 1996, p. 22 ( digitized version )
  • Anne Bauer, Ingrid I. Gumpinger, Eleonore Kleindienst (eds.): Women's architecture tours: work by women architects in Austria . Verlag Anton Pustet, Salzburg 2004, ISBN 3-7025-0464-8 , p. 28-29 .
  • Schmid-Pittl, Wiesauer: Karmel St. Josef Monastery, Carmelite Monastery St. Joseph. In: Tyrolean art register . Retrieved April 24, 2016 .
  • Monastery near Innsbruck. In: Detail, 9/2004, pp. 972–973 ( online )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Otto Kapfinger: Convent of St. Joseph of the Carmelites, Innsbruck. In: Schlögl & Süß Architects. Springer, Vienna, 2011, pp. 122–123, doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-7091-0850-5_14
  2. ^ Office of the Tyrolean provincial government, cultural department (ed.): Culture reports from Tyrol 2007. 60th monument report. Innsbruck 2007, p. 82 ( tirol.gv.at ; PDF; 10.7 MB)
  3. ↑ Gretl Köfler: Margarethe Heubacher-Sentobe: Success beyond the mainstream , Architektur & Bauforum, October 28, 2010

Coordinates: 47 ° 17 ′ 23.3 "  N , 11 ° 24 ′ 50.4"  E