Carmelite Church (Linz)

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Carmelite Church

The Roman Catholic Carmelite Church in Linz ( Upper Austria ) is located on the Linzer Landstrasse near the Ursuline Church .

history

The Carmelite Convent in Linz has existed since 1671. In that year, two Viennese Carmelites went to Linz to look for a suitable place for a monastery and a church. They first lived in the house of the gingerbread man Matthias Panlechner in Herrengasse and on September 19, 1672 they moved to the Schiferhaus on Linzer Landstrasse. After buying the bollard house, the first church (chapel) was built in 1675 at today's Mozart Crossing.

On July 1, 1690, Governor Franz Joseph von Lamberg laid the foundation stone for the church, which was completed in 1710. The model for this church building was the Josefskirche in Vienna . A second construction phase took place in 1720–1726.

In 1785 the parish of the parish church in Linz was divided up and the Josefspfarre was founded and existed until 1854.

In 1871 the church was the center of the confessional affair , which involved sexual abuse and freedom of the press.

In 1944, Pastor Paulus Wörndl was sentenced to death for high treason and degradation of military strength and executed in the Brandenburg ad Havel prison, where Franz Jägerstätter from Upper Austria had already been beheaded in 1943 .

architecture

Johann Raas designed the strongly structured west facade based on the facade of the Carmelite Church in Prague and was modernized in detail by the architects Martin Witwer and Johann Michael Prunner .

Furnishing

Stucco work by Diego Francesco Carlone and Paolo d'Allio adorn this baroque building. On the side of the main portal there are figures of St. Theresa and St. John , it is with a colossal figure of St. Joseph in the gable niche (from 1722).

The high altar picture of the Holy Family is by Martino Altomonte  (1724), the stucco sculptures on the side altars by Diego Carlone. The pulpit from 1714 is richly decorated, the confessionals (1711) are artistically carved. On the altar table is the glass coffin of St. Felix (1733), under the music gallery there are chapels with wrought iron bars.

literature

Web links

Commons : Karmeliterkirche Linz  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Möstl 1974, p. 132.
  2. ^ Möstl 1974, p. 133.
  3. ↑ a b Möstl 1974, p. 134.
  4. ↑ a b Möstl 1974, p. 167.

Coordinates: 48 ° 18 ′ 6.9 ″  N , 14 ° 17 ′ 26 ″  E