Mission House St. Rupert

Mission House St. Rupert

Private high school St. Rupert

The mission house St. Rupert in the municipality of Bischofshofen in the district of St. Johann im Pongau in the province of Salzburg is a foundation of St. Arnold Janssen , the founder of the Steyler Missionaries , and is used as a private mission high school St. Rupert . The building is visible from afar in the Kreuzberg district above Bischofshofen.

history

After the founding decision in 1904, the foundation stone was laid in 1906 and a school began operating in 1907. With the First World War , the building was named k. and k. Emergency reserve hospital used. From 1925 to 1929 a church was added to the building. When Austria was annexed to Hitler's Germany, the mission house was closed in 1939 and served as a military hospital from 1945 during the Second World War . In 1946 the school was rebuilt. The building was restored between 1964/1965 and 1975 and has been continuously renewed since then.

Mission house

The four-storey building complex with several extensions and ancillary buildings was built and expanded in several construction stages. The main building shows an accentuated corner projecting towards the west with a recessed central facade and a brick gable top. Additions were made to the north. An east-facing church was connected to the south, creating an inner courtyard.

Mission private high school

The private high school St. Rupert is a private school with public rights, which is run as a high school . With Latin from the 3rd grade, it is continued in the upper level either as a humanistic grammar school or as an upper level real grammar school . In addition to English, French, Greek, Spanish and Italian, students can also graduate in computer science and any further in-depth school subject. In September 2018, the sponsorship was transferred from the Steyler missionaries to the Association of Religious Schools in Austria, VOSÖ for short, in order to secure the school in the long term in the sense of the Order.

The school has about 400 students.

Mission Church St. Rupert

The neo-baroque mission church on the Kreuzberg (Kreuzbergkirche) as the south wing of the mission house has a facade with wall pillars and a recessed lower choir with a polygonal end above a detached base floor. The neo-baroque 47.5 m high tower with corner pilasters has arched windows in the bell storey and an onion helmet over a curved cornice.

Nave of the mission church St. Rupert

Organ gallery of the Mission Church of St. Rupert

The seven-bay rectangular nave under a barrel vault on girders and pillars has round arch openings to the groin-vaulted side chapels. Above the side chapels (?) Is a round-arched open gallery in connection with the organ gallery in the west. Behind the round-arched triumphal arch is a raised choir under a barrel vault on pilasters and a circumferential profiled cornice.

The neo-baroque high altar from 1961 shows an altar sheet by the painter Wolfram Köberl , which shows Rupert von Salzburg in the Benedictine monk's habit, flanked by two columns with a profiled cornice. Above it the Holy Spirit in a halo with angels to the side. The neo-baroque side altars from 1929 on the beveled walls of the triumphal arch, on the left a Christ the King altar, on the right a Marian altar, carry the console figures Herz-Jesu and St. Mary and angels in the essay. In the side chapels there are some simple wooden altars, some of which are modern.

• Altar of the Innocent Children with altar sheet by Philipp Schumacher
• Altar of the Prodigal Son with altar leaf Prodigal Son as a copy by Pompeo Batoni
• Altar to St. Brother Konrad von Parzham with an altarpiece by Father Philipp Schumacher, a son of the aforementioned painter
• Altar to St. Joseph with carved figure St. Joseph in a halo by the sculptor Josef Staud
• Altar to St. Arnold Janssen based on a design with a picture by the painter Ferdinand Kubitsche (1980)
• Altar of the liberation of the apostle Peter from the dungeon with carving by Josef Staud
• Altar to St. Josef Freinademetz with a picture by the painter Ferdinand Kubitschek

The organ comes from the organ building company Dreher und Heinisch and was inaugurated in 1950.

Cemetery of the St. Rupert Mission House

Mission house cemetery with chapel

The cemetery stands east of the mission house in a forest clearing and is surrounded by a wall and was laid out after 1910. The neo-Gothic rectangular chapel with a round end under a gable roof has a brick gable with cornice and side wall and support pillars and a roof turret. In the cemetery are u. a. the graves of 79 World War II soldiers who died in the local hospital .

literature

• Catholic rectory in Bischofshofen: The churches of Bischofshofen , pp. 40 - 43 (= Austrian Christian Art Centers, No. 580). Publishing house St. Peter, Salzburg 2016.

Web links

Commons : Missionshaus St. Rupert  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Website Missionshaus St. Rupert , on steyler.eu (steyler.at)
• Website Missionsprivatgymnasium St. Rupert

Individual evidence

• The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Salzburg 1986 , Bischofshofen, Mission House St. Rupert, Mission Church St. Rupert in the southern wing, cemetery east of the St. Rupert mission house in a forest clearing , pp. 49–50.
• Mission House St. Rupert . In: Salzburger Nachrichten : Salzburgwiki .

1. ^ History of St. Rupert , steyler.eu
2. ↑ Special content , steyler.eu
3. ↑ © Salzburger Nachrichten VerlagsgesmbH & Co KG 2018
4. ^ Missionsprivatgymnasium St. Rupert - Bischofshofen , Catechetical Office of the Archdioceses Salzburg, katamt.kirchen.net
5. ^ Ferdinand Kubitschek (1912–1992): Exhibition 100 Years of Ferdinand Kubitschek City Newspaper. In: Bischofshofen informed. October 2012 (pdf, bischofshofen.at).

Coordinates: 47 ° 26 ′ 2.8 ″  N , 13 ° 13 ′ 20.3 ″  E