Carmelite Church of St. Josef (Graz)

Carmelite Church of St. Joseph

Convent with monastery church

The Carmelite Church of St. Josef is a Roman Catholic church in the third Graz district Geidorf , the Klosterkirche a Convention of the Carmelite nuns is. Before that there was already one dedicated to St. Church dedicated to Joseph , which dated in the 1930s.

Convent and Church of the Carmelites in Grabenstrasse

At the beginning of the 19th century, the Carmelites tried to acquire the property with the small church Maria Schnee , but they failed. Maria Schnee was later awarded to the Carmelites . In 1836 the Carmelites therefore settled at the foot of the Rosenberg in Grabenstrasse. An existing building from the late Biedermeier period was converted into a convent and expanded. The towerless, single-nave church itself is integrated in the monastery building and its facade points towards Grabenstrasse .

Old kk military clothing depot (around 1911), until 1782: Carmelite monastery, Fischplatz 1

Former Carmelite Church on Andreas-Hofer-Platz

The first monastery of the Discalced Carmelites in Graz on the former Fischplatz (today's Andreas-Hofer-Platz ) / Neutorgasse ( ) was founded in 1641 by the second wife of Emperor Ferdinand II (1578–1637), Eleonora Gonzaga (1598–1655) Passed to its destination in 1654. The monastery church was consecrated in 1660 . In the course of Josephinism , the monastery was closed on January 12, 1782 and the church was closed. The complex was handed over to the military two years later . Initially, the facility served as a military education center, after which the KK Militär-Monturs-Oeconomie-Commission set up a clothing depot (No. 3) in it. After the purchase of the property by the city of Graz, the demolition of the building part, which protrudes far into today's Andreas-Hofer-Platz, began in May 1914, in order to complete a new, competitive chamber of commerce by December 1915. The construction was not carried out due to the war, and the project was not resumed later.

After the last demolition work in 1934, nothing remains of the monastery and the associated church. Some valuable pieces of the furnishings have been preserved in Graz churches and museums. Today the Holding Graz building stands on the site of the southern part of the former monastery .

literature

• Alois Kölbl, Wiltraud Resch: Paths to God. The churches and synagogue of Graz. 2nd, expanded and supplemented edition. Styria, Graz 2004, ISBN 3-222-13105-8 , p. 138.
• Horst Schweigert : Graz (= The art monuments of Austria . = Dehio -Handbuch Graz. = Dehio Graz. ). Revision. Schroll, Vienna 1979, ISBN 3-7031-0475-9 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Schweigert: Dehio Graz. P. 129f.
2. ↑ Daily reports. (...) Another piece of old Graz falls. In:  Grazer Volksblatt , morning edition, No. 186/1914 (XLVII. Year), May 5, 1914, p. 5 middle. (Online at ANNO ). .
3. ↑ Antje Senarclens de Grancy: The discussion about the new building of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry . In: -: "Modern style" and "Domestic building". Architectural reform in Graz around 1900 . Böhlau, Wien (inter alia) 2001, ISBN 3-205-99284-9 , p. 131

Coordinates: 47 ° 5 ′ 19.9 ″  N , 15 ° 26 ′ 0.3 ″  E