Good Shepherd Monastery (Graz)
The Monastery of the Good Shepherd is a monastery of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd in the fourth Graz district of Lend on the Calvary Belt . It was founded in 1858.
monastery
The monastery is an elongated three-storey complex in neo-Gothic style that was founded in 1858 on the site of the former Dornauhof . The facade figure of sandstone Madonna and Child from 1869 comes from Jacob Gschiel .
Monastery church
The monastery church is consecrated to St. Anne . The neo-Gothic building from 1862 was redesigned in 1958 based on plans by Karl Lebwohl .
The church is integrated into the central axis of the monastery, the front side raised from the monastery facade like a risalit .
Under the triangular gable is a sandstone niche figure of Maria Immaculata from the 18th century in the style of Matthias Leitner . The tympanum sandstone relief from 1958 shows a representation of Christ blessing . It dates from 1958 and was created by Othmar Klemencic.
The interior of the church consists of a single nave long house with four bays , vaulted by a stitch cap vault, which is divided by pointed arched belts that rest on pillars. In addition to a vault, there is a circumferential gallery parapet painted by Erika Reiser. The retracted choir has a flat ceiling. The enamel work of the tabernacle comes from Franz Rogler . The wooden figure crucifix is from the second or third quarter of the 18th century. Jakob Gschiel created the figures of Saints Anna and Maria (1864) on the choir wall. The saints Joseph and Maria (1958) are by Othmar Klemencic . Wilma Schalk-Niedermayer created the ceramic Stations of the Cross (1958).
Web links
- Joint homepage of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd Province of Austria - Switzerland - Czech Republic (gutenhirte.org)
- Good Shepherdesses , Catholic Church Styria> Diocese> Orders & Congregations> Women's Orders
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- Georg Dehio (greeting), Horst Schweigert (editing): Graz ( Austria's art monuments ). Schroll Verlag, Vienna 1979, ISBN 3-7031-0475-9 , p. 157.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 5 '3.8 " N , 15 ° 25' 0.7" E