Minorite Monastery Vienna

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The Alserkirche with attached monastery (1724); an engraving by Johann August Corvinus after a drawing by Salomon Kleiner .

The Minorite Monastery Vienna is a monastery of the Minorites in the Viennese district Alservorstadt on the district border between Josefstadt and Alsergrund . It houses the central library of the Austrian Minorite Province. The monastery is connected to the Alserkirche .

history

Representation of the original Minorite monastery and church in the 1st district (History of the City of Vienna, 1872)

The Order of Minorites, the second oldest order in Vienna and the oldest branch of the seraphic order , also called "Black Franciscans" because of the color of their habit , was founded by St. Francis of Assisi in 1209. During the lifetime of Francis of Assisi, they were acquired by Duke Leopold VI in 1224 . Called from Austria to Vienna and built the Minorite Church and a monastery next to the Vienna Hofburg . In 1621 they founded their own religious college, which, however, was dissolved after the order was forced to move to the Alservorstadt. From 1748 the monastery was rebuilt, but in the course of the Josephine reforms the monastery was dissolved (1783) and demolished. In 1784, by order of Emperor Joseph , the Minorites moved into the Trinitarier monastery in Alserstrasse, which he banned. Furthermore, in the course of the new parish division, they were assigned to look after the parish of Alsergrund. Because of the many hospitals, including the Vienna General Hospital , as well as the former poor and foundling house , the parish has the largest register archive in Europe.

The Minorite Monastery was also the home of the kk civil girls' boarding school in Vienna.

Cloister of the monastery

The northern cloister of the Minorite Monastery

In the cloister there are around 4,300 votive plaques and two memorial plaques for victims of National Socialism . One is to commemorate the profession -Kleriker the Austrian Minoritenprovinz Peter Blandenier . The second memorial plaque was donated by the Anrather Kreis in 1949 and commemorates Bernhard Burgstaller (abbot), Richard Hanns Färber (first lieutenant), Gerhard Fischer-Ledenice (business graduate), Adolf Gubitzer (fire extinguisher in the Burgtheater), Hanns Georg Heintschel-Heinegg (theologian), Heinrich Hock (civil servant of Ravag), Jakob Kastelic (lawyer), Karl Lederer (government trainee), Günter Josef Loch (writer), Alfred Adalbert Miegl (civil servant of the Vienna Electricity Works), Marie Schlagenhauser (businesswoman), Roman Karl Scholz (professor of theology), Rudolf Wallner (civil servant at Wiener Elektrizitätswerke) and Hans Ferdinand Zimmerl ( trainee lawyer). In addition, a memorial to the Minorite Father Maximilian Kolbe , who was murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp , has been set up in a niche on the south side of the cloister , designed by Ernst Degasperi .

Anthony's Chapel

The Antonius Chapel in the Minorite Monastery

At the far end of the cloister, next to the Kolbe memorial, is the Antonius Chapel. The altarpiece, which dates from the time of Emperor Ferdinand II , shows Antony of Padua , who for once does not depict the saint with the baby Jesus in his arms, but with a lily and a book.

After the relocation of the Minorites from the city center to the Alservorstadt, they set up the Antonius Chapel with the miraculous image of St. Antony a. In 1928, according to the plans of Hans Prutscher, a new chapel was built to the right of the old chapel and inaugurated by Cardinal Friedrich Gustav Piffl in the same year . In 1956 the interior of the chapel was rebuilt and redesigned according to plans by Hans Petermair . In the course of the renovation in 1980, the chapel's chancel was redesigned again.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Church leader Dreifaltigkeitskirche der Minoriten in Vienna (Christian Art Centers Austria, No. 36); 2nd expanded edition, Verlag St. Peter, Salzburg 1984
  2. ↑ a b Alserkirche.at: The Trinity Church of the Minorites in Vienna ; Retrieved Feb. 21, 2011
  3. ↑ Nachkriegsjustiz.at: Two memorial plaques in the cloister of the Minorite Convent ; Retrieved Feb. 21, 2010

Web links

Commons : Minorite Monastery Vienna  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 48 ° 12 '52.8 "  N , 16 ° 21' 8.8"  E