Sankt Andrä an der Traisen Abbey

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Former monastery with collegiate church and Marian column.
Georg Matthäus Vischer (1672): St. Andrä Abbey (from NW) before it was destroyed by the 2nd Turkish siege
The three-zone main facade of the former collegiate church of St. Andreas.

The monastery Sankt Andrä an der Traisen was an Augustinian canon monastery northeast of the Lower Austrian city of Herzogenburg in St. Andrä an der Traisen, today a cadastral parish of Herzogenburg.

history

As early as the 12th century there were two chapels on the site of the later monastery , which were consecrated to the Apostle Andrew and St. Nicholas . St. Andrä is mentioned for the first time in a document from the Göttweig monastery before 1091. A castle may also have stood at this location.

In the necrology of the former monastery there is the entry “ruedegerus marchio” ( Rüdiger von Bechelaren ) under the date November 4, 1203 , which was obviously the historical model for the main hero of the Nibelungenlied and is buried in St. Andrä an der Traisen, which the necrology of the pen clearly proves it.

In Herzogenburg, the name of the Nibelungen pharmacy refers to this historical reference, which was first presented in 1967 by the German Germanist Jochim Splett. Thus Herzogenburg is also the center of a medieval high culture that was supported by clergymen who were the only ones able to write at the time.

The founder was Walther von Traisen, a brother of Adalram von Waldeck , the founder of Seckau Abbey . In his will, Waltherr determined that the Augustinian Canons should build a monastery at this location . In the middle of the 12th century, Propst Gottschalk was the first provost to establish a monastery community.

In the 13th and 14th centuries the monastery experienced an upswing, but in the following centuries the monastery was severely affected by various influences, such as the two Turkish sieges in 1529 and 1683 and the Reformation .

At the end of the 17th century, Provost Augustin Erath began to rebuild the monastery. In 1726 the foundation stone for a new church was laid.

Due to the high level of debt, an administrator was initially installed and, in 1783, the provost of Herzogenburg Abbey was appointed head of the building. In 1787 the monastery was finally closed due to the Josephine decree . As a result, the monastery building was used in various ways, for example as a barracks.

In 1828 it was given to the poor fund of the city ​​of Vienna and a supply house for impoverished Viennese of all ages and genders was set up there. On April 16, 1853, a fire destroyed the baroque church tower, which has had an emergency roof since then. From 1918 to 1922 the monastery served as a home for neglected boys aged 12 to 14 under the direction of August Aichhorn , the Viennese welfare director, who was able to try out his modern, social-democratic educational concepts here for the first time after the end of the monarchy .

It then served as a supply house again. Until 2015 it was used as a geriatric center for the municipality of Vienna. Since then, the municipality of Vienna has tried to sell the property. Parts of the land have already been sold, while the main building has not yet been sold.

Collegiate church

The former collegiate church is consecrated to the Apostle Andreas and today the parish church of the parish of St. Andrä an der Traisen, the collegiate parish of Herzogenburg. The baroque church should go back to Joseph Munggenast .

The church, rectory and geriatric center are now under monument protection . The church itself and its furnishings are in urgent need of renovation or restoration .

Interior decoration (altars)

Two altarpieces are by Paul Troger , others by Schmidt from Vienna .

  • High Altar - Crucifixion of St. Andreas (Paul Troger)

  • Augustine altar

  • Trinity Altar

  • Anna altar

  • Nicholas altar

  • Gilded pulpit

  • Mary Altar

  • Johannes Nepomuk altar

literature

  • Lower Austria. Pressehaus (Ed.): St. Andrä / Traisen. 1973.
  • Egon Wahl: The Augustinian Canons of St. Andrä an der Traisen. Dissertation, Vienna 1945.
  • Joachim Splett: Rüdiger studies. Dissertation (printed), Münster 1964.
  • Ambrosius Roland Straka, Christine Oppitz, Petra Weiss: Former collegiate church St. Andrä an der Traisen (= Small Art Guide. Volume 2696). Regensburg 2008.

Web links

Commons : Stift Sankt Andrä an der Traisen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.wienkav.at/kav/gza/texte_angebote.asp?id=227Template: dead link /! ... nourl  ( page no longer available )
  2. ↑ City wants to sell old geriatric center on ORF from August 9, 2020 accessed on August 9, 2020

Coordinates: 48 ° 17 ′ 56.4 "  N , 15 ° 42 ′ 57.7"  E