Oxygen foundation
The Sauerstiftung was a branch of the Sisters of Charity of the Holy Cross in Hinterbrühl in Lower Austria.
The monastery existed from 1934 to 1997 and organizationally belonged to the Provincial House Laxenburg , which is located in the Palais Kaunitz-Wittgenstein in Laxenburg.
The monastery was located in buildings on a piece of land that was partly in the Hinterbrühl area and the greater part in the area of the cadastral community Weissenbach near Mödling . The main building dates from 1867 and was built by Borromäus Cünzer as a bourgeois country house. In 1897, the manufacturer Carl Marx was named as the owner , who also owned a paint factory nearby that no longer exists today.
At that time the road from Hinterbrühl to Weissenbach still ran through the grounds of the monastery before it was relocated in 1927. Carl Marx's daughter sold the property to the Kinderschutzstation Wien association , which subsequently built a holiday home for around 80 children. In 1934 the leadership was given to the Sisters of Mercy. The financial problems persisted, so a sale was intended.
As a result, the childless master builder couple Sauer bought the site in 1936 and set up a foundation for a children's home. The children's home was enlarged so that there was space for 80 boys including school buildings. It was inaugurated by Cardinal Theodor Innitzer in 1936 .
After the Anschluss in 1938, the Foundation was able to continue running the home with the sisters until 1940. Then the facility had to be handed over to the National Socialist People's Welfare , which set up a home school for the Hitler Youth . The leader was the teacher Eduard Göth , who lived in Hinterbrühl , was active in the underground resistance and was executed after his discovery in 1944.
At the end of the Second World War , the sisters were able to resume operations. Until 1966, a boarding school for boys and an elementary school were operated, which external students could also attend. After the school was closed, the house continued to be operated as a toddler home by the child care center of the municipality of Vienna and the state welfare organization. From 1969 a state kindergarten was housed, which was open until 1997.
Since the house could no longer be run economically, it had to be closed in 1997 and the sisters went to the provincial house or other branches of the order. According to the foundation letter, the entire area fell to the Archdiocese of Vienna . The Oxygen Foundation was used by the Beatitudes Community until 2010 . In 2002, at the request of the Archdiocese, the monument protection of the former sister house was lifted by the Federal Monuments Office.
literature
- Walter Gleckner: Weissenbach through the ages , 2011.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Lackfabrik Ludwig Marx in RegiowikiAT accessed on November 3, 2019
Coordinates: 48 ° 4 '38.4 " N , 16 ° 13' 55.9" E