Seminary Salzburg

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Main front 1735 after Franz Anton Danreiter
Gate of the priestly house, 2018
Main front with church on Makartplatz at night
Back front Priesterhausgasse corner Richard-Mayr-Gasse

The seminary or priest house stands with the Dreifaltigkeitskirche in the middle of the main front in Dreifaltigkeitsgasse on Makartplatz in the old town on the right of the Salzach in the municipality of Salzburg . The church and the seminary are under monument protection ( list entry ).

history

Due to a rock fall (1669) from Mönchsberg with the destruction of several buildings and numerous dead, the seminary there was also destroyed.

Under the government of Prince Archbishop Count Johann Ernst von Thun and Hohenstein (1687), the conversion of Salzburg into a baroque city was continued and completed. After several attempts, it was not until 1693 that the Prince Archbishop assigned the planning and construction supervision to the imperial court architect Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach in the then sparsely populated suburb. In 1694, the foundation names a priestly house and the boys' college Collegium Virgilianum . The master mason Sebastian Stumpfegger , who belongs to the Salzburg cathedral chapter , was commissioned with the construction . On June 14, 1699, the Holy Trinity Church was consecrated by the Prince-Bishop of Chiemsee Sigmund Carl von Castel-Barco in the presence of the now blind founder. Construction work was completed in 1702.

After the proposed pawnshop was structurally increased in 1747, the Archbishop Sigismund III. Christoph von Schrattenbach in 1757 heightened the two towers by 20 feet (about 7.5 m). The fire in the city of Salzburg in 1818 started in the southern wing of the priest house. The church and building were badly damaged, they were modified, rebuilt or renovated.

architecture

For the central church see: Dreifaltigkeitskirche

The main front has two two-axis protruding corner projections, followed by two five-axis middle sections between two biaxial backsplashes, with the main front of the Trinity Church in the middle flanked by two corner projections with a tower. The facade has a ground floor ashlar, double pilasters on the upper floor and corresponding pilaster strips and rectangular windows on the attic floor. On the side fronts on the left in Bergstrasse and on the right in Richard-Mayr-Gasse, the facade structure of the main front was continued, while the rear front in Priesterhausgasse was designed as a smooth facade with a cordon cornice.

The elongated rectangular building block has two rectangular inner courtyards due to the church crossing in the middle. The inner courtyards have open and partly walled pillar arcades on the ground floor. In the left courtyard there is a fountain with a statue of St. Petrus by the sculptor Josef Anton Pfaffinger (1741) and bronze animal heads as an outlet.

literature

  • The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Salzburg 1986 . Salzburg, old town to the right of the Salzach, Trinity Church and Priest's House, Makartplatz, with floor plan, church, Priest's House, pp. 613–615.
  • Johannes Neuhardt : Trinity Church and Priest's House in Salzburg. Church guide, Christian art sites Austria No. 12, Verlag St. Peter, Salzburg 1960, 5th edition 2004, 12 pages.

Web links

Commons : Priesterseminar Salzburg  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 47 ° 48 '10.2 "  N , 13 ° 2' 41.1"  E