Divine settlement for St. Erentrudis

The divine settlement of St. Erentrudis in Herrnau in Salzburg-Süd in the city of Salzburg is a parish center with a church, vicarage, kindergarten and monastery with a monastery chapel of the Eucharistic Sisters . The building complex is a listed building .

history

The parish center was built from 1957 to 1963 for the residential complexes for war resettlers built after 1945. In the later 1950s and 1960s the former meadow landscape of the Salzach, the Josefiau , was developed on a large scale and it was decided to set up a separate parish for the settlement. The Archdiocese of Salzburg acquired the property from Nonnberg Monastery . Archbishop Andreas Rohracher made a new beginning possible for the refugee Eucharistic Sisters. For the project, the architect Robert Kramreiter (1905–1965), one of the pioneers of modern church building , was commissioned to build the Herrnau settlement to design.

The Herrnau monastery is today's motherhouse and generalate , the headquarters of the religious order. The church settlement is dedicated to St. Erentrudis , the first abbess of Nonnberg and the patron saint of Salzburg.

investment

Herrnau Monastery

The Erentrudis Monastery itself, at the eastern end of the area, is a functional style residential building, two-story, uneven-armed T-shaped with two wings, a street-side portal facade and distinctive rows of dormers on both sides . Originally it was - still standing in the open meadow. - closed with two side buildings to form a cloister- like square ensemble; today it closes with a pentagonal annex.

Parish church hl. Erentrudis

Hall of the parish church to the altar wall

Hall of the parish church facing the organ wall

The floor plan of the church hall was developed from a segment of a circle . The rising ceiling was structured with spherical elements.

The painter Margret Bilger designed the mighty glass concrete wall behind the chancel with the depictions of the Last Supper, the apocalyptic Lamb, the crucified, and on the left Abraham's sacrifice and Elias is nourished by the angels, and on the right the wedding of Cana and the wonderful multiplication of bread as well as in the frieze of the The representation of a cycle of angels.

The interior of the church was designed by Robert Kramreiter. The amber relief and the crucifix above the sacristy door were created by sculptor Max Rieder . The side altar cross, the bronze Pietà and bronze gates were created by the sculptor Walter Ritter . The sculptor Otto Beckmann designed the main gate as an enamel work, four windows in the confessional chapel and the glass painting in the Marienkapelle. Walter Ritter created a wall relief in the Lady Chapel. In 1962 Joaquín Vaquero Turcios painted a Stations of the Cross as a wall painting in the lower church . In the baptistery, the painter Karl Weiser created the stained glass of the seven sacraments and the episcopal ordination.

The organ was built by the St. Florian Organ Building Institute in 1964 .

Monastery chapel St. John

The church of the monastery was built by Kramreiter 1958-1960. John the Baptist is the main patron saint of the Eucharistic Sisters. The church is attached to the south of the monastery and complements the floor plan of the - original - ensemble to form a complete cross.

It is a round building , about 10 meters high and looking like a medieval tower, a white, cylindrical structure with a flat, conical roof in copper above a recessed base level . On the south-east side, the body is cut and offset inwards, designed in gray wall with abstract glazing, on the north side another light opening protrudes. The chapel is included in the program of the parish church of St. Erentrudis, west of the monastery (the parish office corresponds to the monastery building in its sobriety).

In the church, an oval round room is formed, with all-round seating, the cut-out segment forms the altar wall. The stained glass window Lamb of God comes from Max Weiler . The communion table is in gray-white marble, the tabernacle is modern in the form of a chest. The sculptor S. C. Polac created the tabernacle cross. Under the figurines there is a Christophora , a Christ-bearer by Jakob Adlhart .

The chapel is open to the public.

literature

• Robert Kramreiter, Josef Engelbert Tomaschek (Hrsg.): The god settlement for St. Erentrudis in Salzburg-Herrnau. Buildings History and Church Guide. Erwin Metten publishing house, Vienna 1961.

Web links

Commons : Parish Church Herrnau  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Web presence of the parish in Herrnau
• Our chapel , photo gallery on eucharistie-schwestern.at

proof

• The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Salzburg 1986 . Salzburg, Morzg, God's settlement for St. Erentrudis in Herrenau, p. 674.
• Eucharist Sisters . In: Presentation for the cultural goods of the orders of the Superior Conference of the male religious orders of Austria and the union of the women's orders of Austria, kulturgueter.kath-orden.at
• Herrnau Monastery / Salzburg , In: City of Salzburg: salzburg.gv.at → Culture → Castles, palaces and monasteries
• Congregation of the Sisters of the Most Holy Eucharist . In: Salzburger Nachrichten : Salzburgwiki .

1. ↑ Information from Herrnau #The parish church of Sankt Erentrudis . In: Salzburger Nachrichten : Salzburgwiki .
2. ↑ See Fig. On parish center , pfarre-herrnau.at; dated 1961
3. ^ Lothar Schreyer: The Christ image and the art of the 20th century. Verlag O. Müller, 1960, p. 140 f.
4. ↑ ^{a b} "Lamm Gottes" glass window by Max Weiler  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   , eucharistie-schwestern.at → chapel tour
5. ↑ Tabernacle  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   and tabernacle, opened for worship  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   , eucharistie-schwestern.at → chapel tour
6. ↑ "Christophora", Christ-bearer by Jakob Adlhart ( memento of the original from February 19, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , eucharistie-schwestern.at → chapel tour

Coordinates: 47 ° 47 '6 "  N , 13 ° 3' 52.5"  E