Bulk hopper Geras

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Bulk hopper Geras

The Geras Schüttkasten is part of the Geras Abbey in the municipality of Geras in the Horn district in Lower Austria . The former granary was converted into a hotel.

Description and history

The granary of Geras is a building of three floors. The longitudinal outer walls have framed wide windows and cartridge windows on the gable walls . At the top of the gable are figures of St. John the Baptist and St. John the Evangelist (originals in the Geras Abbey, for which it was built). The roof was designed as a saddle roof with a roof house.

In a niche above the entrance facing the city on the south side of the building is the so-called “Schüttkastenmadonna”, a polychromed high relief of the Madonna with the child, which is carried by two angels. The Eggenburg stonemason Thomas Steinböckh is named as a possible creator of this representation. Among them are the coats of arms of the Geras Abbey and the abbot Johannes Westhaus , under whose reign the Schüttkasten was built on a hill between 1668 and 1670.

The cellar of the Geras bulk box was built as a two-aisled cellar with square pillars and groin vaults. The ground floor had slimmer stone pillars, while wooden pillars with saddle wood and wooden beam ceilings were installed on the upper floors.

hotel

Between 1978 and 1980 the Schüttkasten was redesigned into a hotel with 70 rooms under Abbot Joachim Angerer . It is therefore one of the first bulk boxes converted for tourist purposes.

literature

  • Austrian art topography, published by the kk Central Commission for Art and Historical Monuments, Volume V, The Monuments of the Political District of Horn in Lower Austria, commissioned by Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna, 1911
  • DEHIO Lower Austria - north of the Danube ISBN 3-7031-0652-2 (1990)
  • Manfred Wehdorn: architectural monuments of technology and industry in Austria. Vienna-Lower Austria-Burgenland , 1984, ISBN 3-205-07202-2 .
  • Ambrózy, Johann Thomas / Pfiffig, Ambros Josef / Trumler, Gerhard: Geras Abbey and its art treasures . St. Pölten 1989.

Web links

Commons : Schüttkasten Geras  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wehdorn: architectural monuments of technology
  2. ↑ http://www.austria-lexikon.at/af/Wissenssammlungen/ABC_zur_Volkskunde_%C3%96sterreichs/Schüttkasten

Coordinates: 48 ° 48 ′ 2.4 "  N , 15 ° 40 ′ 29.6"  E