St. Bernhard Monastery

Pen from the courtyard

The Sankt Bernhard monastery is a former Cistercian convent in Sankt Bernhard-Frauenhofen in Lower Austria .

history

In 1277 the Cistercian convent was moved from Neumelon to “Chrueg im Pewreich am Teffenbach”, today's St. Bernhard. The founder was Stephan von Maissau , who was married to Margarete von Neuhaus . Her sister Maria was abbess of the St. Bernhard monastery in 1285.

In 1580 the monastery dissolved during the Reformation . In 1586 the abolished monastery and the property belonging to it were given to the Jesuit College in Vienna , after its abolition in 1773 it belonged to changing owners and partly fell into disrepair until it came to Klosterneuburg Monastery in 1852 after the death of Baron von Ehrenfels . In 1947 the church was renovated. In 1961 the chapter hall and the remains of the cloister were demolished and re-erected in Klosterneuburg Abbey.

For the former monastery church see parish church St. Bernhard Mariä Himmelfahrt.

literature

Ralph Andraschek-Holzer , Meta Niederkorn and Barbara Schedl: St. Bernhard (Lower Austria) and the Cistercians . New research on history and art, 158 pages, publisher: Diözesanarchiv St. Pölten, St. Pölten 2002, ISBN 3-901863-12-5

Web links

Commons : Stift Sankt Bernhard  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Timeline of the history of the monastery and pictures of the monastery complex
• Endl, P. Friedrich [1] : The architectural monuments of the former Cistercian women's monastery St. Bernhard's near Horn (Lower Austria), communications from the KK Central Commission for Research and Conservation of Architectural Monuments, 1900, pages 89-91
• P. Ludwig Keplinger, OCist, St. Bernhard near Horn

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Friedrich Polleroß , Newer Literature on the Art History of the Waldviertel in “ Das Waldviertel ” magazine for local history and regional studies of the Waldviertel and the Wachau, 39 (1990), volume 3, p. 227 , illustration of the chapter room of the former Cistercian convent St. Bernhard, end 13th century, transferred to Klosterneuburg Abbey .

Coordinates: 48 ° 41 ′ 7 ″  N , 15 ° 35 ′ 42 ″  E