St. Salvator Monastery (Griesbach)
The St. Salvator Griesbach Monastery is a former Premonstratensian monastery in Bad Griesbach in the Rottal in Bavaria in the Diocese of Passau . It was added to the list of architectural monuments in Bavaria under No. D-2-75-124-139 . The village of Sankt Salvator , which grew up around the monastery, is part of the city; the church is now a parish church.
history
The monastery , consecrated to Jesus Christ as Salvator mundi (“Savior of the World”), was founded in 1289 by Wernhard and Friedrich Pöringer, until 1309 it was a hermitage, then the monastery of the Premonstratensians and had parish rights. The mother monastery was the Osterhofen monastery . In 1441 it was elevated to a Premonstratensian abbey by a provost .
Towards the end of the Middle Ages, the Sankt Salvator monastery had a considerable number of buildings, the extent of which probably corresponded to the preserved monastery complex from the 17th and 18th centuries. The building activity reached its peak between 1431 and 1449, during the tenure of the provost Petrus Czistlar, who was raised to the rank of abbot in 1441 . However, a fire destroyed the monastery complex in December 1632. The Premonstratensians gave up the fire ruins and built a new monastery in the early Baroque style near the old location . Only a few relics of the late medieval monastery have survived, including the grave slab of Petrus Czistlar. The outlines of the submerged monastery complex can still be read in the ground plan of the village today.
The St. Salvator Abbey was dissolved on March 22, 1803 in the course of secularization , and the parish also went out. The monastery buildings were partially demolished. In one part of the east wing, a curate and school station was housed in 1834 , and a brewery was set up in another part of the preserved monastery buildings. Allegedly the recipe for the Munich Paulaner Salvator beer comes from the brewery of the St. Salvator monastery. A new school was built in 1892 and the former monastery church became the parish church of the parish in St. Salvator again in 1902 with the patronage of the Holy Trinity .
The parish "Holy Trinity" of St. Salvator today 400 Catholics, together with the parishes Holy Family (Bad Griesbach) , St. Assumption (Karpfham) , St. Valentin (Reutern) and St. John the Baptist (Weng) to Parish association Bad Griesbach in the deanery Pocking ( Diocese of Passau ).
In 1734 a Trinity brotherhood was founded in St. Salvator , which collected alms to buy Christian prisoners from Muslim hands. Today this brotherhood has almost 100 members and works for the persecuted Christians in the Middle East.
The former monastery church
The church was built after the monastery fire from 1632 to 1645 by the Italian master builder Bartolomeo Viscardi under Abbot Michael Lantzensperger. In 1703 the abbey burned down again. The church could not be completed until 1751. It is a baroque wall pillar church with frescoes by Franz Anton Rauscher . Joseph Deutschmann created the holy figures . The high altar from 1640 was redesigned by him in 1782. It shows the ascension of Christ . The other altars are located in six side chapels.
literature
- Markus T. Huber: The medieval monastery complex of Sankt Salvator am Steinkart. A search for clues . Culture in the district of Passau, vol. 43, Salzweg 2015, ISBN 978-3-939723-43-1 .
Web links
- St. Salvator Monastery (Griesbach) , basic data and history: St. Salvator - From the hermitage to the Premonstratensian monastery in the database of monasteries in Bavaria in the House of Bavarian History
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 48 ° 30 ′ 21.6 " N , 13 ° 11 ′ 42" E