Pöllau Abbey

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The former Pöllau Abbey
Collegiate Church of St. Veit
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Pöllau Abbey is a former monastery of the Augustinian Canons in Pöllau in Styria . The former collegiate church of St. Veit is now the parish church. The monastery buildings are now called Pöllau Castle .

history

Hans von Neuberg, the owner of the castle and the market in Pöllau at the time, ordered in his will in 1482 that the castle should be rededicated as an Augustinian monastery after his death. In 1504 his brother-in-law Christoph von St. Georgen-Pösing finally founded the Pöllau Abbey. In the same year eight canons under provost Ulrich moved from Vorau to Pöllau.

In 1677, the renovation and new construction of the monastery began under Provost Michael Josef Maister - initially with the construction of a granary and the Meierhaus. In 1681 the Marian column was built on the main square. In 1698 the central building with the library was completed. After Master's death, Propst Ortenhofen continued the renovation, which was completed in 1779 with the erection of the high altar in the new church. However, the Pöllau Abbey was abolished six years later as part of the Josephine reforms and handed over to the state.

Todays use

The fresco hall offers the perfect setting for festive occasions. The traditional castle ball takes place on Rose Monday.

Since May 29, 2010, the Pöllau Abbey has housed a museum on the history of physics, the European Center for the History of Physics Echophysics .

Collegiate church

The organ of the church

The collegiate church was built by Joachim Carlone and Remigius Horner from 1701–1712 and frescoed by Mathias von Görz . It is considered an important example of the Styrian high baroque. A stone Pietà (around 1420) is also important .

The church building, which is similar in its architecture to the Peterskirche in Rome, is also known as the “Styrian St. since 1990 it has been a subsidiary church of the Lateran Basilica in Rome.

The organ by Johann Georg Mitterreither from 1741 was restored in 1989 by Helmut Allgäuer .

Web links

Commons : Pöllau Abbey  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ODB Karl Schütz Austrian organ database Karl Schütz . Styria. Pöllau. Collegiate church.

Coordinates: 47 ° 18 ′ 9 ″  N , 15 ° 50 ′ 1 ″  E