College Kalksburg
| College Kalksburg | |
|---|---|
| type of school | Elementary school , grammar school , secondary school |
| founding | 1856 |
| place | Kalksburg |
| state | Vienna |
| Country | Austria |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 8 '7 " N , 16 ° 14' 45" E |
| carrier | Association of religious schools in Austria |
| Website | www.kalksburg.at |
The Kollegium Kalksburg , also known as Collegium Immaculatae Virginis , is a Roman Catholic private school with public rights in the 23rd Viennese district of Liesing .
history
The Mon Pérou castle, built in the 18th century, was located in the place of the college building. It was the country estate of Princess Carolina von Trautson , a lady-in-waiting of Maria Theresa , and was acquired in 1791 by the court jeweler Franz von Mack . Franz von Mack had the landscape garden that still exists today created around the castle. The Jesuits acquired the castle in 1856 from August Godeffroy, husband of Franz von Mack's granddaughter. The transaction was financially supported by Emperor Franz Joseph .
The main building of the college was built gradually and partly on the foundation walls of the Mon Pérou castle. On October 3, 1856, what is now the lower part of the patrons' wing was consecrated by Cardinal Joseph Othmar von Rauscher to the Immaculate Conception , which shortly before had been proclaimed as a Roman Catholic dogma . The house was occupied by 68 pupils. In 1857 the structural expansion was carried out with the present gate part and a mirror-image part to the Patrestrakt and in 1858/59 the three-storey Konviktsbau (today's grammar school) was built. A major fire in the area of the former workshops destroyed part of the building in 1875. In the last quarter of the 19th century, renovations were carried out, the Konvikt and Patrestrakts were increased and the music house with a gym in front of the Konvikt building was built. The first edition of the school magazine Kalksburger Korrespondenz appeared in 1886. In 1897 the school was granted public rights for all classes and the right to hold school-leaving examinations, after having been granted public rights for the first three classes in 1891. From 1902 until his death in 1931, Father Anton Straub worked as a priest and theologian in the college. In 1904 Karl Maria von Andlau (1865–1935) became rector of the house. Later he was a provincial order and a confidante of Emperor Charles I of Austria .
After the Anschluss in 1938, the Jesuit College was dissolved by the National Socialists . Until 1945 a police school of the Ordnungspolizei was housed in the college building. After the Second World War , the occupation troops cleared the house in 1947. In autumn of the same year, school operations were resumed, and from 1948 to 1951 part of the college building was still used by the Soviet Army . In July 1954, the first post-war Matura was taken. The first semi-internal students came in 1964, the year with the lowest number of students (241) after the war. In 1968 the superior general of the Jesuit order Pedro Arrupe visited Kalksburg. 1968 was also the year in which the Stella Matutina Jesuit college in Feldkirch was closed. Major changes were undertaken under the rector Rudolf Reichlin-Meldegg (himself Altkalksburger).
| High school directors since 1969 | |
|---|---|
| 1969-1994 | Erich Schmutz |
| 1994-2004 | Walter Schauer |
| 2004-2017 | Michael Dobeš |
| since 2017 | Irene Pichler |
In 1969, Erich Schmutz was the first layperson to take over the post of grammar school director, which was previously exercised by Jesuits. With the construction of a new gymnasium, the building was expanded for the first time in 75 years. The co-education of boys and girls was introduced in 1983. In 1990 the boarding school was closed. For personal reasons, the Jesuits sought to form the Association of Religious Schools in Austria . The college became the first school run by this sponsoring association in 1993. In the same year, an additional elementary school was set up, which began the 1993/94 school year with two first school classes. In 1999 the Kollegium Kalksburg designed the Willergasse park and erected the sculpture Lebende Liesing . The following year the school won the Science Week award and carried out the exhibition Living Liesing in the Volkshalle of the Vienna City Hall . In 1999, the fourth floor was expanded to become the Center for Crafts and Art Education, and in 2001 the new library wing with an attached IT room and school buffet was opened. A year later, the facade of the east wing was renovated. The gym from 1972 was replaced in 2003 by a new two-story building with a climbing wall. For the 150th anniversary of the college in 2006, numerous events took place, including a festive mass with Cardinal Christoph Schönborn and a pilgrimage to the basilica of Mariazell .
In the course of the Klasnic Commission, which dealt with the investigation of sexual abuse in church institutions, cases in the Kalksburg college were also investigated. Among other things, the former student André Heller reported in numerous interviews of borderline experiences and stated that abuse was "part of a terrible reality".
Location and architecture
main building
The area of the college is located in the south of Kalksburg on the edge of the wooded area of the Vienna Woods . The elongated main building can be reached via a bridge over the Liesingbach . It consists of the four-storey school wing and the Konvikts- and Patrestrakt to the west in the form of a courtyard . Several chapels belong to the main building. The Marian Congregation Chapel and the Konvikt Chapel were built from 1895 to 1897 and have furnishings that largely date from the time it was built. In the Konviktskapelle in the school wing there is a Maria Immaculata picture by Leopold Kupelwieser on the altarpiece, and the windows above the arcades were made by the Tyrolean Glass Painting Company, and in the Congregation Chapel there is Napoléon Bonaparte's travel altar . The college chapel at the back of the Konvikts- and Patrestrakt has a fresco by Bengt Olof Kilder from 1986. Finally, the former Guardian Angel Chapel is a simple room from 1900.
Park and outbuildings
The park of the college goes back to the Mack landscape garden from the 18th century. The so-called monument is a round pavilion built in the park in the style of the architect Claude-Nicolas Ledoux . The obelisks with spheres and stars on the inner walls refer to Masonic symbolism. The Michael's chapel, located on a hill, was completed in 1858/59 by converting and expanding a Diana temple built by Mack. In the park there is also a small Chinese pagoda, the so-called Chinese, and the so-called smoking temple, an originally open pavilion built for Greece on the occasion of the World Exhibition in Vienna in 1873 , which was used as a leisure space for the students of the 7th and 8th high school classes and in which smoking was not prohibited in contrast to the rest of the building. The stone house, built in 1787, is located in Franz von Mack's former "small garden" and is one of the most important secular neo-Gothic buildings in Austria. It has a remarkable interior.
The college grounds include a number of sports facilities, including a large football field with a grandstand surrounded by a 400-meter-long running track, and two other football training fields, a basketball court, a beach volleyball field, a shot put area and four gyms. There used to be a small ski lift, two tennis courts and a bobsled run behind the college building.
Art collection
The art collection in the Kollegium Kalksburg mainly comprises numerous paintings that were created between the second half of the 18th century and the end of the 19th century. These include portraits, including those of Franz von Mack and his wife, and depictions from the lives of Jesuit saints. The painting Crucifixion by the baroque painter Martin Johann Schmidt and the Kalksburg Cross , which was created in 1911 by the steel cutter Michael Blümelhuber , are noteworthy . The college also has an extensive biological and ethnographic collection.
Well-known former students
| Surname | Graduation year | annotation |
|---|---|---|
| Johann Christoph Allmayer-Beck | 1936 | historian |
| Vilmos Apor | Bishop of Győr, beatified in 1997 | |
| Johannes Attems | 1966 | Bank manager |
| Ladislaus Batthyány-Strattmann | Doctor, beatified in 2003 | |
| Kurt Bergmann | 1955 | Journalist and Politician ( ÖVP ) |
| Stefano Bernardin | 1995 | actor |
| Martin Bolldorf | 1966 | Ambassador to the Holy See, Commander of the Maltese Hospital Service |
| Haymon Maria Buttinger | actor | |
| Franz Fuehmann | writer | |
| André Heller | Chansonnier, performance artist, cultural manager, author and actor | |
| Robert Hochner | Journalist and ORF presenter ( time in picture 2 ) | |
| Wolfgang Jilly | 1959 | ambassador |
| Daniel Kehlmann | 1993 | writer |
| Johannes Kleinhappl | 1918 | Catholic priest and moral theologian |
| Herbert Knötzl | 1987 | Cabaret artist ( project X ) |
| Giuseppe Koschier | Football national player, master tailor | |
| Alex Kristan | Voice imitator and cabaret artist | |
| Guido del Mestri | 1930 | apostolic nuncio |
| Michael Mohapp | Actor and cabaret artist | |
| Cornelius Obonya | 1987 | Actor, musical performer and cabaret artist |
| Iris Ortner | 1992 | Entrepreneur (IGO Ortner Group) |
| Robert Palfrader | cabaret artist | |
| Alexander Pereira | 1966 | Cultural manager |
| Theodor Piffl-Perčević | 1930 | Politician ( ÖVP ) |
| Clemens von Pirquet | University professor, pediatrician and researcher | |
| Heribert Rahdjian | 1956 | Politician ( The Greens ) |
| Erwin Rasinger | 1970 | Doctor and politician ( ÖVP ) |
| Alfred zu Salm-Reifferscheidt | Politician | |
| Hannes-Jörg Schmiedmayer | 1978 | Quantum physicist, winner of the Wittgenstein Prize 2006 |
| Felix Römer | 1978 | Actor, author |
| Ivo Stanek | 1955 | Entrepreneur |
| Ernst Emanuel von Silva-Tarouca | 1878? | Austrian-Bohemian dendrologist, member of the Reichsrat |
| Werner Trock | 1982 | official |
| Rudolf Ullik | 1918/19 | High school diploma; Doctor and painter |
| Gerald Votava | 1988 | Cabaret artist ( project X ) |
| Franz Weiser | Theologian and writer | |
| Hermann Withalm | 1930 | Politician ( ÖVP ) |
| Marlene Zeidler-Beck | 2006 | Politician ( ÖVP ) |
| Marie-Claire Zimmermann | 1993 | ORF presenter ( time in picture 2) |
literature
- Ladislaus Velics: The Cabinet for Church Art in the Collegium SJ zu Kalksburg near Vienna . Imperial-royal court u. State printing office, Vienna 1900
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ferdinand Opll: Liesing: History of the 23rd Viennese district and its old places . Jugend und Volk, Vienna 1982, ISBN 3-7141-6217-8 , p. 99
- ↑ School brothers deny abuse allegation. In: derStandard.at. Retrieved March 25, 2016 .
- ↑ Victims of abuse complain to Jesuits and teachers. In: kurier.at. Retrieved March 25, 2016 .
- ^ André Heller: Abuse witnessed in the Jesuit boarding school. In: DiePresse.com. Retrieved March 25, 2016 .
- ^ Dehio-Handbuch Wien. X. to XIX. and XXI. to XXIII. District . Edited by Federal Monuments Office. Anton Schroll, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-7031-0693-X , pp. 691-693
- ^ Dehio-Handbuch Wien. X. to XIX. and XXI. to XXIII. District . Edited by Federal Monuments Office. Anton Schroll, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-7031-0693-X , p. 723
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