St. Peter on the Sperr

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St. Peter on the Sperr
Choir to the nave with west wall to the former monastery

St. Peter an der Sperr refers to the former monastery church of the Dominican Sisters on the northern city wall of the former fortress of the city of Wiener Neustadt in Lower Austria . The secular church building now serves as an exhibition space. The former Dominican convent now serves as the Wiener Neustadt City Museum . The monastery garden is freely accessible as the so-called mayor's garden .

history

The Dominican convent was founded before 1250. In documents, the monastery burned down in 1280 and in documents in 1349 a poor state of construction was mentioned. In the 3rd quarter of the 14th century the church and the monastery were rebuilt. In 1444 the Dominicans were resettled and the church and the monastery were taken over by Dominicans , who were resettled from the Neukloster monastery . Between 1450 and 1475, under the Dominicans, the builder and stonemason Peter Pusika renewed the church and the monastery. In the 1530s the Dominican monastery was completely destroyed. In 1544 the monastery was handed over to Clarissi, who had fled here from Tyrnau from the Turks . In 1452, the church suffered damage during the siege of the Wiener Neustadt fortress by the army of the Austrian estates at the Wiener Tor. The Clarissa convent was abolished in 1574, and the church and monastery were subordinated to the diocese of Wiener Neustadt and incorporated in 1626. In 1630 the dilapidated church was renovated on behalf of Cardinal Khlesl. Khlesl's coat of arms stone with an inscription in the choir has been lost. In 1768 the church was seriously damaged by an earthquake, which is why the church was closed and profaned. During the city fire in 1834, the church burned down and the vaults collapsed. In 1944 the monastery building used as the Peterskeller inn was partially destroyed by bombs. The preserved cloister tract of the monastery was the seat of the Wiener Neustadt city archive from 1964 to 1992 . From 1992 to 1994, the old building was converted by the builder Werner Nedoschill and the modern extension by the builder Josef Panis. From 1965 to 1966 the church building was renovated by the architect Wilhelm Zotti . From May 8th to October 30th, the eighth Lower Austrian State Exhibition Friedrich III. - Imperial residence Wiener Neustadt takes place. Since then the church has been used for exhibitions.

Nave to the choir with axis bend
Portal in Petersgasse with two by seven statuette niches
Session niche in the choir

During excavations in advance of the planned renovation work for the Lower Austrian State Exhibition 2019 entitled "World in Motion - City.History.Mobility" , archaeologists came across two medieval graves in August 2016. The mayor's garden in front of the museum, the forecourt and the entrance portal have all been redesigned. In addition, new passageways and crossings between the former city museum and the museum church of St. Peter an der Sperr were created and the monastery corridors were revitalized. Historic stones and wall decorations were exposed and old windows restored. The museum was named Museum St. Peter an der Sperr . ARGE koup architects Zt gmbH | ch.schmidt-ginzkey architekt eth.sia , the revitalization of the building cost five million euros.

architecture

Church exterior

The 3-bay nave with a drawn-in 2-bay choir of the same height with a five-eighth end stands free on Johannes-von-Nepomuk-Platz, on Wiener Straße and Petersgasse and is structurally connected to the west with the former monastery and today's city museum. The buttresses are stepped with two pointed edges and culminate in a point probably from the 3rd quarter of the 14th century and with a rounded arch to the north, each with a heraldic shield of a formerly designated 1456. The southern buttresses were provided with a round arched gable on the second step around 1458, one of which was formerly designated 1458. At the end of the choir buttress there is one of four coats of arms in relief with a representation of a fish. The church has three-lane tracery windows to the south and at the end of the choir, probably from the 3rd quarter of the 14th century, although the tracery was renewed after 1945. On the south side, in the second yoke of the nave, there is a remarkable late Gothic south portal, formerly marked 1465. In Austria, the south portal is a solitary round-arched, rectangular framed and braced portal with penetration of the spherical and rectangular bars. Above the portal there are seven statuette niches in a close sequence in an almost square field in two zones. Furthermore, there are arches from a previously existing arched protective roof construction for the portal. The north front of the church, which runs parallel to the former city wall, is windowless and has an elevated, flat-arched doorway on the nave and partly walled-in passages in the buttresses, which probably show the remains of the former battlement.

Church interior

The high nave and the retracted choir were covered with a flat, profiled concrete ceiling from 1965 to 1966. Arches with shield ribs and small remains of the late Gothic cross rib vault are preserved on all sides. In the western wall of the former monastery and today's museum, vestiges of the vestments of the former round-arched Gothic west portal have been preserved, with a round-arched portal above it at the level of the former gallery. An opening to the eastern cloister tract of the former monastery was glazed and gives a mutual insight. In the 1st and 3rd yoke of the nave there are simple arched portals to the north to the former northern extension and the city wall area. In the second yoke of the nave is the large portal to Petersgasse to the south. In the south of the choir is a 3-axis session niche from the 3rd quarter of the 14th century with chipped tracery and remains of the polychrome. To the north of the choir are the remains of a walled-in shoulder portal, probably a former portal to the sacristy from the 3rd quarter of the 15th century.

literature

  • The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria south of the Danube 2003 . Wiener Neustadt, Profanized sacred buildings, St. Peter an der Sperr, former monastery church, former monastery building, former monastery garden, pp. 2634–2636.

Art exhibitions

Kurt Ingerl's sculpture in front of the north side entrance

Art exhibitions have been held in the restored church since 1966.

2006
2007
2008
2010
2012
2014
  • red & more
  • Ursula Heindl: cultural monuments , Sanchi, photo Michael Goldgruber
  • Sylvia Kummer: relictum
  • Jörg Dobrovich
  • Wiener Neustädter Artists' Association
  • Face tellers 20Fourteen, photo moments by Franz Baldauf
2015

Web links

Commons : St. Peter at the Sperr  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of Lower Austria - regional studies . Accessed January 4, 2015.
  2. ↑ Exhibition Church of St. Peter an der Sperr . Accessed January 4, 2015.
  3. ↑ orf.at: State exhibition means "World in Motion" . Article from January 19, 2018, accessed on January 20, 2018.
  4. ↑ derStandard.at - Wiener Neustadt: Archaeologists discover medieval monastery cemetery . Article dated August 26, 2016, accessed August 28, 2016.
  5. ^ Kurier: Wiener Neustadt: Museum awakens from a deep slumber . Article dated October 12, 2018, accessed October 13, 2018.
  6. ↑ "St. Peter an der Sperr ”in new splendor on ORF Lower Austria from October 14, 2018, accessed on October 15, 2018
  7. ↑ Wiener Neustadt ( Memento of the original from September 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Exhibitions 2006 and 2007, archive, accessed May 28, 2009 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wiener-neustadt.gv.at
  8. ↑ Wiener Neustadt  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Exhibitions 2008@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.wiener-neustadt.gv.at  
  9. ↑ Four artists united in art. District papers Wiener Neustadt.
  10. ↑ City Museum Wiener Neustadt | St. Peter on the Sperr . Accessed January 4, 2015.

Coordinates: 47 ° 48 ′ 57.4 "  N , 16 ° 14 ′ 37.6"  E