School center Friesgasse

School center Friesgasse
type of school	Elementary school , new middle school , grammar school , secondary school , commercial school , advanced course
School number	915046, 915052, 915081, 915418
founding	1860
address	Friesgasse 4, 1150 Vienna
place	Vienna, Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus
state	Vienna
Country	Austria
Coordinates	48 ° 11 '26 "  N , 16 ° 20' 3"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 11 '26 "  N , 16 ° 20' 3"  E
carrier	School association SSND Austria
student	around 1400
management	Maria Schelkshorn-Magas
Website	www.schulefriesgasse.ac.at

Mosaic designed by the students on the facade

The Friesgasse school center of the Order of the Poor School Sisters of Our Lady is located in the 15th Viennese district of Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus .

history

After the establishment of the order in Bavaria, the first establishment in Austria took place in 1853 in Freistadt in Upper Austria . In 1860, Countess Flora Fries (1814–1882) brought school sisters to Vienna and gave the sisters the management of an orphanage on Clementinengasse in Fünfhaus . In 1864, the sister bought a piece of land in Friesgasse and established an asylum for young homeless factory workers . In 1865 a children's institution and an industrial school were opened. In 1866, wounded people from the Battle of Königgrätz were cared for in the monastery . 1867 sisters received from the kk Statthalterei the concession for the conversion of a secondary school . For this, the house at Friesgasse 72 was bought and a new building with 6 classes was built. Generous donations came from Emperor Franz Joseph I. In 1878 a kindergarten was approved. The house at Friesgasse 70 was acquired and a new building with 4 classes with an auditorium was built. The monastery church was built in 1885. In 1893 the main school was converted into a five-class elementary school and a three-class community school .

In 1919 a housekeeping school was started and in 1920 an educational institution for cookery school teachers was started. In 1927, in the year of the school reform , the school structure changed to a four-class elementary school, the three-class citizen school was phased out, a four-class secondary school was newly installed and a three-class trade school was founded as an introduction to the housewife profession . In 1931 a business school was started. In 1932 a secondary school for girls was started. In 1938, in the course of the annexation of Austria to Hitler's Germany, the school nurses' private school was closed and a state high school was established. The Friesgasse was renamed Scharnhorstgasse after Gerhard von Scharnhorst . Serious damage was caused to the school building during World War II .

After the end of the war, a kindergarten, elementary school, secondary school and grammar school with a women's high school, later called the Wirtschaftskundliches Realgymnasium, started again in 1945. In 1964 a three-class business school was reopened. In 1969 the new school building was completed according to the plans of the architect and master builder Kurt Stögerer and consecrated by Cardinal Franz König . In 1980, the renovation in Clementinengasse took place and a gymnasium was created in the basement. In 1981, boys and girls were admitted to secondary school and grammar school and co-education was introduced - as the first private school in Vienna. In 1991 the school was spatially separated from the convent . The plant management , later renamed the School Center Management , was established. From 1992 the boarding school was closed and the school expanded to include these rooms. In 1993, the Wirtschaftskundliches Realgymnasium expired and the natural science Realgymnasium was opened. From 1998 onwards, Montessori pedagogy is gradually being used in elementary school . In 1999 the secondary school begins with the first integration class . The alumni association was founded in 2000. From 2001 the secondary school was run as a cooperative middle school . In 2005, the management of the schools was transferred to the SSND Austria school association and the HAK advanced course was opened. In 2006/2007, after a continuous growth process, the school center had the maximum number of pupils of 1,500. In 2010, 150 years of the school sister was celebrated in Vienna . In 2010 the Cooperative Middle School became a UNESCO project school . In 2013 the Cooperative Middle School became a New Middle School .

In 2013 there were students with around 40 different mother tongues and around 20 different religious denominations.

On September 1, 2022, the congregation “Poor School Sisters of Our Lady” plans to hand over the Friesgasse school center to the Association of Religious Schools in Austria .

The school center currently has the following areas:

• kindergarten
• Elementary school
• New middle school
• Commercial school (three years) with transition level and HAK advanced course
• AHS (from 3rd grade grammar school or secondary school)
• Hoard

During the school year, a fresh lunch is cooked in the school kitchen from Monday to Friday for more than 600 people.

Monastery Church Mother of Mercy

The monastery church

The monastery church Mother of Mercy at Fünfhausgasse 23 was built in 1885 by master builder Johann Friedl according to a design by the painter Josef Kastner and is a listed building . From 1976 to 1978 the facade towers were removed, the gable facade was set back behind a four-storey reinforced concrete skeleton and the gabled portal of the vestibule on the street was preserved. The church was restored in 1910, 1947 and 1983/1984.

The three-aisled, four-bay hall church in late historical mixed forms of neo-Gothic and neo-Renaissance with a ribbed vault over cross pillars has an integrated U-shaped wooden gallery as a sister gallery and a wooden organ gallery above the glazed part of the sister gallery. The barrel-vaulted rectangular choir has rooms on the sides and oratorios above . The church has little daylight with its arched windows in the 4th yoke and the rose window in the entrance wall.

The furnishings and fittings of the church are consistently original from the construction period. The entire front wall of the choir and the nave shows a wall painting by Josef Kastner. The wall painting shows Mary as Mother of Mercy in glory in many figures in the choir and below in arched fields the Saints Alfons of Liguori , Francis of Assisi , Peter , Archangel Michael , John the Baptist , Paul , Ignatius of Loyola and Christophorus , in the choir vault angels in one Starry sky.

The high altar with a historic stone retable with reliefs of the four evangelists and three angel figures on each side of the canopy shows the Last Supper on the tabernacle door . The side altars on the front walls of the nave are designed in the same way as the high altar. The right side altar bears relics in a shrine which Josef Kastner acquired in Rome. The left side altar shows the murals Christ the King between St. Clara and St. Maria Margareta of Alacoque and a crucifixion and a crowning of thorns. The right side altar shows the murals St. Joseph between St. Anna with Maria and Guardian Angels and the Mount of Olives and a Pietà.

The side walls of the nave above the gallery show murals: on the left, Mary as Mother of Mercy surrounded by poor souls and Christ as divine child friend, on the right, Christ with the wise and foolish virgins . Painted keystones in the vault show Mary, Christ, the dove and the Lamb of God . Under the gallery as medallions in relief, ceiling paintings show Marian symbols, angels and St. Cecilia . On the balustrade of the gallery, pictures show angels playing music in arched fields.

The window glazing shows uniform diamonds and a foundation inscription from 1910. The window rosette in the east shows a simple floral decoration partly in grisaille and Maria in the portal bezel . The slugs in the vestibule show the heart of Jesus and symbols of Mary in medallions .

The church contains the figures of Saint Augustine , Pierre Fourier , Clemens Maria Hofbauer , Judas Thaddäus , all around 1900.

The organ by Johann M. Kauffmann was donated in 1902.

School and Provincial Council

The modern complex of a school and the religious house on Clementinengasse, Fünfhausgasse and Friesgasse integrates the monastery church and was rebuilt in several construction phases until 1980. The facade in Clementinengasse bears a figure of Maria Immaculata , in the courtyard there is a figure showing Christ as Salvator , both from the end of the 19th century. The school chapel, designed by Kurt Stögerer (1973), has glass windows depicting the tools of suffering by the painter Clarisse Praun . The house chapel designed by Bruno Buchwieser junior (1980) shows the sun in a ribbon of windows made by the Geyling company . The house chapel contains a Gothic figure of the Madonna and a Way of the Cross on metal plates in abstract shapes by the sculptor Ernst Grandecker .

literature

• The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Vienna suburbs 1996 . Vienna, XV. District, Churches, Monastery Church Mother of Mercy of the Congregation of the Poor School Sisters of Our Lady, Provincialate, School Chapel, House Chapel, pp. 342–343.

Web links

Commons : Schulzentrum Friesgasse  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Website of the school center Friesgasse

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Three new school locations planned for the Association of Religious Schools in Austria. In: ordensschulen.at. January 28, 2020, accessed July 4, 2020 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c} History of the Friesgasse private school. In: schulefriesgasse.ac.at. Retrieved July 4, 2020 .