Hollabrunn boys' seminar

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The Hollabrunn Boys' Seminar , later the Hollabrunn Archbishop's Seminar , is a former school in Hollabrunn . It was also incorrectly referred to as the Hollabrunn Seminary .

Foundation in Vienna

It was not until Cardinal Joseph Othmar Ritter von Rauscher that the Archdiocese of Vienna took the decision to found a boys' college. On October 1, 1856, the boys' seminary in the former Carmelite monastery of St. Theobald in Vienna VI. opened. The seminarians attended the state high school in Josefstadt , which was run by the piarists .

In 1875, representatives of the community of Oberhollabrunn (today Hollabrunn) requested that the boys' seminar be relocated to Oberhollabrunn. A new grammar school had been founded there in 1865 , which had too few students. Only with Rauscher's successor, Cardinal Johann Rudolf Kutschker , could a contract for the establishment of a seminary in Oberhollabrunn be signed on June 23, 1880.

Hollabrunn location

48 ° 33 ′ 40 "N, 16 ° 4 ′ 57" E

Archbishop's Seminary Hollabrunn

On July 21, 1880, the foundation stone was laid for the new building according to plans by the architect Richard Jordan ; on November 16, 1880, the tower cross was consecrated after 115 working days. The western main front is 86 m long, the side wings are 75 m long.

The move from Vienna took place in August 1881. On October 2, 1881, the house and chapel were inaugurated by Prince Archbishop Cölestin Joseph Ganglbauer .

174 boys lived in the seminary in the school year 1881/82 and attended the public high school in Hollabrunn . The number of pupils at the grammar school rose from 41 in the 1880/81 school year to 229 in the 1881/82 school year. In the years that followed, several priests were also employed as professors at the grammar school.

The house was built for 180 to 200 students. In 1930 the maximum number was reached with 313 pupils. A prefect was then responsible for 80 students.

About a third of the seminarians passed the Matura. In the years 1856 to 1956, over 40% of the priests in the Archdiocese of Vienna were former seminarians.

Dissolution in 1938

After Austria was annexed to the Third Reich in March 1938, negotiations initially prevented the seminarians from having to  join the Hitler Youth (HJ).

Since May 31, three classes of the grammar school have been accommodated in the seminar building. In addition, the municipality of Hollabrunn wanted to buy the Vorstehergarten for an extension of the hospital. In addition, the pressure increased to stop the business operations of the seminar in Reucklstrasse.

During the occupation of the Sudetenland from September 16 to 29, a total of 981 military personnel and 1248 refugees were billeted.

On September 21, the seminar was canceled with a letter from the Hollabrunn district school council. All protests by Rector Joseph Ettl and Cardinal Theodor Innitzer were unsuccessful. On September 27, the Hollabrunn district management prohibited the boys' seminar from continuing. She ordered the entire inventory to be handed over to the municipality of Hollabrunn, which wanted to continue running a school home.

However, only 3.5% of the seminarians registered for the student residence. Many seminarians continued their school education in Vienna. The number of pupils at the Hollabrunn grammar school fell from 544 to 346. The municipal dormitory was opened on October 24th and could accommodate around 100 pupils. From 1939, parts of the house were used as a district building for the NSDAP .

On January 3, 1940, a contract was concluded between the former rector, Joseph Ettl, and the mayor of Hollabrunn, Schenk, in which the seminar building was rented to the city of Hollabrunn.

New beginning 1945

After the end of World War II, the seminary was occupied by Soviet troops. Therefore, from September 1945 the pupils were housed privately in Hollabrunn.

On November 14th, the return of the south and east wing, in which the student residence was housed, was achieved. The seminary chapel was consecrated on January 5, 1946, and studies began again on January 10. On July 29th, the entire building was returned.

After a general cleaning, the first normal year began with 93 pupils in September 1946. On October 6th the house was consecrated by Cardinal Theodor Innitzer . The Vorstehergarten was only returned in 1949.

In the following years the number of seminarians rose again to over 200. Therefore, in 1953, a second chapel for 90 pupils was built on the 3rd floor. After 1965 the number of pupils began to decrease significantly.

Boys' seminar Sachsenbrunn

47 ° 35 ′ 54 ″ N, 16 ° 0 ′ 24 ″ E

In 1956 a second seminar was planned in Sachsenbrunn (in Kirchberg am Wechsel in the south of the archdiocese). In addition to a boarding school, a private high school for the Archdiocese of Vienna was also built there. On September 21, 1959, Cardinal Dr. Franz König took over the unfinished new building and opened the first school year. Some of the pupils who lived south of Vienna moved from Hollabrunn to Sachsenbrunn. The new seminar was not completed until 1963. From 1966 to 1987 Kurt Knotzinger was spiritual, teacher and choirmaster in Sachsenbrunn.

Gradually, the Sachsenbrunn grammar school was opened to external students and girls. In the 1990s the boarding school was closed due to insufficient number of seminarians. After an expansion of the branches offered, the school is now called Gymnasium and Realgymnasium Sachsenbrunn .

Foundation of the advanced high school

In 1972 Rector Dr. Johann Kurz to set up a private music and pedagogical secondary school in the seminar. In a conference of the chiefs on September 1, 1973 the decision was made to establish a private school. The secondary school was chosen as the school type . The religion professor at the time, Dr. Hans Groër , was appointed head.

In 1974 the school started with 21 pupils and 7 pupils. All classrooms were housed in the seminar building.

Now 14-year-olds and those working late could also enter the seminar. The number of seminarians remained constant for a few years after the establishment of the advanced high school, but then fell steadily.

By the time the boys' seminar was closed, almost exactly two thirds of the seminarians had graduated from the advanced high school and one third from the federal high school.

Dissolution of the boys' seminar

Since the number of seminarians fell to below 50 and, above all, fewer than 5 students entered the first class, the Hollabrunn boys' seminar was dissolved at the end of the 1991/92 school year.

The Hollabrunn grammar school remained in the seminar building. From the 1998/99 school year it became the Archbishop's Realgymnasium and Aufbaugymnasium Hollabrunn . From the 2004/05 school year, the Hollabrunn Commercial Academy is also rented there.

Rectors

  • Karl Dittrich, 1856 to 1874
  • Franz Kraus, 1874 to 1884
  • Franz Reuckl, 1884 to 1899
  • Julius Kundi, 1899 to 1903
  • Dr. Franz Berger, 1903 to 1922
  • Dr. Johann Gartner, 1922 to 1933
  • Joseph Ettl, 1933 to 1938 and 1945 to 1947
  • Dr. Johann Kurz , 1947 to 1984
  • Herbert Samm, 1984 to 1986
  • Franz Grabenwöger, 1986 to 1992

Former seminarians

literature

  • Dr. Johann Grippel: History of the FE boys' seminar of the Archdiocese of Vienna in Oberhollabrunn . Oberhollabrunn 1906
  • Dr. Hans Groër : One hundred years of boys' seminary in the Archdiocese of Vienna . Hollabrunn 1956
  • Michael Gstaltmeyr: The archbishop's seminary in Hollabrunn in 1938 . Hollabrunn 1988
  • Peter Paul Kaspar: Boys' seminar: an obituary . Müller, Salzburg / Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-7013-0943-4
  • Dr. H. Kurz (Ed.): One hundred years eb. Seminar in Hollabrunn . Hollabrunn 1981
  • Christine Mann, Erwin Mann: The Great History of the Small Seminary of the Archdiocese of Vienna . Wiener Domverlag, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-85351-194-5
  • Mag. Dr. Herwig Reidlinger: The foundation of the Hollabrunn secondary school . In: Aufbaugymnasiums of the Archdiocese of Vienna in Hollabrunn (Ed.): 20th Annual Report 1993/94
  • Viktor Scheibenreiter (Ed.): 100 Years of the Federal High School Hollabrunn 1865 1965 . Hollabrunn 1965.

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