Redemptorist College Katzelsdorf

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Monastery and high school (2011)

The monastery with the monastery church Maria of the Perpetual Help of the Redemptorists in the community of Katzelsdorf in the district of Wiener Neustadt-Land in Lower Austria is a listed building . The Redemptorist College as a community was closed on August 31, 2011. The Klemens-Maria-Hofbauer-Gymnasium-Katzelsdorf will be continued by the Association of Religious Schools in Austria .

history

In 1808 the Redemptorists with Klemens Maria Hofbauer were expelled from Warsaw by Napoleon Bonaparte and were accepted in Vienna. In 1820, the year of death of Klemens Maria Hofbauer, the Redemptorists were admitted by decree by Emperor Franz II . In 1855 two Redemptorists held a Triduum Sacrum in Frohsdorf Castle in Lanzenkirchen . As a result, Countess Maria Theresia Chambord managed the settlement of the Redemptorists in the Franciscan monastery in Katzelsdorf, which was abandoned in 1783. On November 4, 1856, Father Ludwig Graf von Coudenhove acquired the fallen monastery for 25,000 guilders while maintaining the property rights of the countess. On January 11, 1857, the Redemptorists took over the building and began cleaning up and making the necessary adaptations for a future novitiate house. Initially, the Anna chapel and Alfonsus chapel were newly furnished. On September 29, 1857, Provincial Adam Mangold consecrated and moved into the monastery and chapels. The novice master Father Hřebaczka moves with his novices from the Redemptorist College in Puchheim to Katzelsdorf and on February 15, 1858 the first novices are dressed. In 1870 the novitiate was moved to Eggenburg . From 1871 the monastery was used as a mission house and retreat house. After the death of Countess Maria Theresia Chambord on March 25, 1886, the adaptation of the monastery for a private high school with boarding school began and students from the Redemptorist College in Leoben were moved here and lessons began in autumn 1887.

literature

  • The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria south of the Danube 2003 . Katzelsdorf, monastery and grammar school of the Redemptorists with parish church St. Radegundis, parish church St. Radegundis, monastery building, Anna chapel, monastery church St. Maria of the everlasting help, school building from 1925, Juvenat chapel, living and farm wing, monastery garden, pp. 905–909.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Redemptorists - Austrian Province kulturgueter.kath-orden.at, accessed on February 6, 2014

Coordinates: 47 ° 46 ′ 7 "  N , 16 ° 16 ′ 23.9"  E