Göß Abbey
The Göss Monastery is a former Benedictine monastery (OSB) in Göss , a district of Leoben in Austria . The former parish church, the cemetery and the buildings west of the collegiate church, today's parish church, are no longer preserved . Also known is the Brunnhöfl, which has largely been preserved. A reusable Josephine coffin from 1784 that can be opened downwards can also be admired in the monastery showroom .
history
The monastery was founded in 1004 by Adula / Adele von Leoben (she was and is still called the "blessed Adula", although she was never beatified), wife Palatine Aribos I , and her son Aribo , later Archbishop of Mainz Aribonengut founded and populated by Benedictine nuns from the Nonnberg Imperial Abbey in Salzburg. The first abbess was Kunigunde, Archbishop Aribo's sister. Göß was the only imperial abbey (from 1020 by Emperor Heinrich II. ) In the later Habsburg Empire. For centuries, Stift Göß formed a center for the upbringing and care of their daughters for the Styrian nobility. In principle, only nuns who came from the nobility were accepted. In 1782 the monastery was closed.
From 1783 it served briefly as the seat of the newly founded diocese of Leoben .
In 1827 it was auctioned by the Vordernberg cycling community, which was primarily interested in forest ownership. In 1860 it came to the Graz brewer Max Kober (the first collegiate brewer was named as early as 1459); Since then, the Göss brewery has been located here , which also includes all of the former monastery buildings, apart from the church, the bell and clock tower and the rectory.
You can still visit the old collegiate church and Michael’s Chapel , which formerly served as a private chapel for the only Bishop of Leoben, Count Alexander Engel von Wagrein . It is a Romanesque building in the spiked style and decorated with wall paintings depicting the Song of Solomon. Another object owned by the parish is the so-called “Josephine coffin”, a coffin that could be reused to save wood by opening it downwards so that only the linen-wrapped corpse remained in the grave.
Abbesses of Göß
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Description and art objects
The collegiate church of the former Göß monastery is a large building from the late Gothic period. The early Romanesque crypt under the chancel of the church, the early Gothic frescoes in the Michael's chapel (in the so-called zigzag style ) and the imposing roof structure of the church are of particular interest in terms of art history .
Josefin coffin from 1784
Ceiling painting in the church
Front riser in the church
Monolith in the crypt
Monastery churches
The bell and clock tower of the former parish church, the then St. Andrew's Church, which was demolished during the time of Emperor Joseph II, still stands today. The St. Andrew , who was with the former parish patron saint, was also the patron of the new church. The altarpiece above the high altar also comes from the parish church at that time. Before the abolition of the monastery, researchers suspect there were around 17 bells in the monastery. Today there are still five, the oldest from the 15th century. Another bell is located in the cemetery church belonging to Göß, consecrated to Saint Erhard, and two more in the Marienkirche Maria Kaltenbrunn and in the church on Kalvarienberg, which also belong to Göß.
Gösser regalia
The famous Gösser regalia , a valuable Romanesque silk embroidery, which was donated by Abbess Kunigunde II and made together with her nuns, is now in the Romanesque Gothic Renaissance permanent collection in the Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, MAK Vienna . This regalia from around 1260 is one of the most important and from such an early period the only preserved ensemble of church vestments consisting of chasuble , cope , dalmatic , tunic and an antependium . From the technical, color and stylistic uniformity of the silk embroidery, which completely covers the simple linen, it is easy to see how the ornaments belong together. Partly serious changes over the centuries, but also the free form of the ornamental decoration make the robes appear particularly colorful and unusually decorative today. Furthermore, in 2006 the MAK's Textile Study Collection hosted the exhibition Transformations of Gösser Ornats , which reworked the textile work under the aspect of various compositional and formal conditions.
See also
Web links
- Entry on “1782 sin we have been repealed”: The chronicle of the Benedictine monastery Göß in the Austria Forum
Individual evidence
- ^ Erich Zöllner, 1000 years of Babenberger in Austria. Catalog of the Lower Austrian anniversary exhibition in Lilienfeld Abbey in 1976., p. 602. [1]
- ↑ " Transformations des Gösser Ornats ", June 28, 2006 - September 10, 2006 and [2] on MAK.at
Coordinates: 47 ° 21 '47 " N , 15 ° 5' 45" E