Carmelite Monastery Lienz

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The Carmelite Monastery Lienz was located in the center of the city of Lienz in East Tyrol and is now a Franciscan monastery .

history

The Carmelite Monastery in Lienz was founded in 1349 by Countess Euphemie von Görz and her two sons Albert IV and Meinhard VII. The monastery was designed for twelve residents, but the size of the convent soon increased to twenty brothers. In 1430 a Vicariate in was for the monastery Tristach donated, the financial component of the addition to the grants on the part of the population and noble families Convention secured. Although the Carmelite monastery burned down several times in the following centuries, it was always able to be rebuilt through donations. Around 1450 even a theology course for the Carmelite order was housed in the monastery. At the beginning of the 16th century the prior Fr Lucas Zach carried out a reform in the monastery so that the order of the Carmelites would be better followed.

From 1748 to 1773 the Carmelites also took over the parish in Tristach. From 1775 they also worked as teachers at the normal school and from 1777 as professors at the Lienz grammar school. Nevertheless, the Carmelite monastery could not escape the wave of repeal under Emperor Joseph II . On March 21, 1785, the convent was informed that they had to vacate the monastery for the Franciscans (OFM) . Since the Franciscan monastery in Innsbruck, which was supposed to serve as a general seminary , was closed in the same year, the government gave them the Lienz Carmelite monastery as a replacement. The monastery, the church and all associated possessions fell to the state religious fund. Most of the inventory was sold for the benefit of the fund, including the valuable library with 4640 volumes and 168 manuscripts. On April 16, 1785, the Franciscans moved into the Carmelite monastery. Some of the expelled 21 Carmelites stayed in the city, nine of them also died in Lienz.

From the time of the Carmelites

Even today some works of art in the Lienz Franciscan monastery remind of the time when it was still inhabited by Carmelites:

  • The Gothic frescoes in the monastery church (15th century)
  • The pictures in the cloister (1705)
  • The Carmelite Chapter House
  • The old Carmelite crypt in the cloister by the sacristy with the names of seven Carmelites from the 18th century
  • Pictures by the founder Euphemia von Gorizia and by Prior Lucas Zach

literature

  • Florentin Nothegger, special issue of the Osttiroler Heimatblätter on the 600th anniversary of the Carmelite Franciscan monastery in Lienz, Lienz 1949

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Coordinates: 46 ° 49 ′ 50 "  N , 12 ° 45 ′ 58"  E