Carmelite Church Wiener Neustadt

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Main portal facade of the former Carmelite Church

The Carmelite Church Wiener Neustadt as part of a former Carmelite monastery in Wiener Neustadt was closed in 1783 and the church and monastery were then used as a factory, prayer house, museum and cinema, as a hospital and residential complex and for art exhibitions. From 2017 to 2019, the central room and the ancillary buildings were expanded into the Corvinus Campus of the Wiener Neustadt University of Applied Sciences , the former church is used as a library in the center of Wiener Neustadt . The church building is under monument protection ( list entry ).

history

The former monastery in the northeast corner of the formerly fortified old town bordered the eastern city wall and stands with the dominant main facade as an eye-catcher point de vue in the visual axis of Deutschgasse in the more village-like Schlögelgasse. The formerly extensive monastery garden is partly preserved with the walling and is now built with various buildings of the Wiener Neustadt Regional Hospital.

Initially, from 1241 onwards, the area was built in the north-east corner of the city, founded in 1192, by the Teutonic Order, which was destroyed in a fire in 1608. In 1673 the Teutonic Order exchanged the area for the Möger'sche Freihaus in Bahngasse 3 and 5.

In 1697 the foundation stone of the Carmelite Church was laid according to the plans of Brother Athanasius, the civil architect Martin Wittwer. The church was consecrated in 1718 and abolished with the monastery in 1783. From 1787, a silk and velvet ribbon factory was set up in the building by Christoph Andrä and Carl Friedrich Bräunlich. The church was again used as a house of prayer for the Protestant factory workers. From 1885 to 1889 it was converted into a residential complex. The church was converted into an Apollo cinema in the first half of the 20th century . In 1967 the east wing of the former monastery was converted into the administration building of the Wiener Neustadt Regional Hospital. From 1979 the church was used by the municipality as an exhibition hall for art exhibitions.

The high altar of the church was transferred to the parish church of Altenmarkt an der Triesting around 1788 .

Corvinus Campus

In January 2016 it was announced that a campus of the Wiener Neustadt University of Applied Sciences with a total area of ​​14,500 square meters would be built around the Carmelite Church from 2017 to 2019 .

With architect Karl Scheibenreif as ARGE Scheibenreif – Strixner, the baroque nave was largely vacated as a central room and made usable as a library with reading and study areas as the main room for events.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria south of the Danube 2003 . Wiener Neustadt. Former Carmelite monastery. Former Monastery church. Former monastery building. Pp. 2636-2637.
  2. ↑ orf.at - FH Wr. Neustadt gets a location in the city . Article from January 18, 2016, accessed on January 18, 2016.
  3. ↑ University of Applied Sciences expansion at the Karmeliterkirche Won competition, scheibenreif.at, January 18, 2016

Coordinates: 47 ° 48 ′ 53.3 "  N , 16 ° 14 ′ 50.3"  E