Franciscan monastery Maria Enzersdorf

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Parish and pilgrimage church in Maria Enzersdorf
Choir room

The Franziskanerkloster Maria Enzersdorf is a Franciscan monastery (OFM) in Maria Enzersdorf south of Vienna . It is the oldest existing Franciscan convent in Lower Austria. The monastery is located in the middle of the village. The building is under monument protection ( list entry ).

history

In 1454 a Franciscan monastery was founded by St. John of Capistran . The Turkish invasion in 1529 and the turmoil of the Reformation in 1533 put an end to monastic life. In 1632 the Franciscans returned to Enzersdorf. In 1683 the Turks ravaged the monastery again. In 1725 the monastery wing on the main street was rebuilt. In the 1960s, the south-eastern monastery wing was demolished and replaced by a new building. However, the planned seminary was not established.

In 1889, in addition to the Franciscan monastery, the St. Gabriel Missionary House of the Steyler Missionaries  SVD was built on the outskirts of Enzersdorf .

In 1963 part of the monastery was replaced by a new building. This also houses the library with around 100,000 volumes from the Vienna Franciscan Province. In 1964, on the initiative of Cardinal König , the Clariss Monastery was founded and built in Zipsgasse . The first Poor Clares came from the Poor Clare Monastery in Münster in Germany.

In 2014, pastoral care was returned to the Archdiocese of Vienna. In September 2014 this monastery was dedicated to pastoral care for young adults. The newly built center is called La Verna and is open to everyone between 16 and 35 years of age. Different courses are offered on different topics, as well as other ways to deepen personal faith.

Pilgrimage church

The monastery church was originally consecrated to Maria Magdalena . Like the monastery, the church was destroyed in both Turkish Wars in 1529 and 1683. After the reconstruction, it was consecrated as a pilgrimage church to Maria Heil der Kranken in 1730 . From 1784 to 2014 it was also the parish church of the Maria Enzersdorf community.

Web links

Commons : Franziskanerkloster Maria Enzersdorf  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lower Austria - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. (PDF), ( CSV ). Federal Monuments Office , status: 23 January 2019.

Coordinates: 48 ° 5 ′ 49 ″  N , 16 ° 16 ′ 57 ″  E