Schlierbach Abbey

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Schlierbach Abbey
West view of the pen
West view of the pen
location AustriaAustria Austria
Lies in the diocese Linz
Coordinates: 47 ° 56 '10 "  N , 14 ° 7' 37"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 56 '10 "  N , 14 ° 7' 37"  E
founding year 1355 (nuns) by the Cistercian order
Cistercian since 1355
Year of repopulation monks since 1620
Mother monastery Rein pen
Primary Abbey Morimond Monastery
Congregation Austrian Cistercian Congregation

Daughter monasteries

Jequitiba Abbey

Collegiate church

The pin Schlierbach (lat. Abbatia Aulae BMV ) is a Cistercian - Abbey (OCist) in Schlierbach in Upper Austria .

history

From its founding as a nunnery to the Reformation

In the 10th century, the Swabian Count Zwentibold built a castle on the site of today's monastery. This was acquired by Eberhard V. (III.) Von Wallsee in 1352 and founded a Cistercian convent in it in 1355 . At that time this was still called the Frauensaal or Mariensaal . The property was expanded through purchases, donations and donations. Eberhard left the former Steyrstein Castle to the monastery ( pilgrimage church Frauenstein since 1500 ) and income from the Pernstein dominion he acquired in 1337 . In the following 200 years, 18 abbesses presided over the monastery. Nothing of new buildings or conversions has survived from this time. The time of the Reformation meant the temporary end - up to 90 percent of the population temporarily switched to the Protestant faith .

New beginning as a monastery in the 17th century.

Copper engraving from the Topographia Austriae superioris modernae (around 1674)

From 1609 to 1620 Schlierbach was therefore administered from Kremsmünster Abbey , where Anton Wolfradt, who was sent from the Cistercian monastery Heiligenkreuz , had become abbot. Wolfradt wanted to re-found Schlierbach with the Cistercians in the course of the Counter Reformation and Emperor Ferdinand II approved the settlement of the former women's monastery by monks from Rein near Graz. The Reiner Abbot Matthias Gülger sent his prior Wolfgang Sommer (he became the first abbot of Schlierbach) together with some monks to Upper Austria in 1620 . They should rebuild pastoral care in the upper Kremstal; this was initially made more difficult by peasant revolts. Franz Keller (abbot from 1627 to 1644) got a seat and vote in the estates and abbot Balthasar Rauch received the episcopal insignia miter , pectoral cross and crook for himself and his successors in 1654 . The spiritual and economic ascent now took place quickly.

The former castle was now in extremely poor condition. Nivard I. Geyregger (abbot from 1660 to 1679) therefore started with a completely new building in the baroque style. Under his direction, the western front was completed in 1674, the northern and eastern front of the prelate's court and the abbey tower in 1678. Benedikt Rieger (abbot from 1679 to 1695) commissioned Pietro Francesco Carlone and his son to build the collegiate church (1680–1683).

The economic boom continued under Christian Stadler (abbot from 1715 to 1740). A mill, sawmill and bakery were set up. At that time the convent numbered thirty monks. However, the Josephine period and Napoleonic Wars led to its decline; In addition, the Meierhof burned down in 1825. Another deep turning point was the dissolution of the manor , which required a complete economic reorientation. No abbot was in charge of the monastery for the next fifty years, and things only improved towards the end of the 19th century.

Modern times

Alois Wiesinger (1885–1955) was the first significant head of the monastery in recent history; he reigned as 14th abbot from 1917–1955. In the post-war years, the locksmith's shop , carpentry and gardening shop were refurbished . A monastery cheese dairy was set up and soon became an important economic factor. The lay brother institute was re-established in 1922. In the same year the monastery started an agricultural school and in 1925 a grammar school was founded , which was granted public rights in 1932 .

Closed in 1938, the grammar school reopened in 1946 and has again had public rights since 1947. Girls have also been taught since 1977.

present

From July 15, 1998 to November 15, 2008, Abbot Altmann Hofinger presided over the monastery community of 21 monks (as of 2007). On November 18, 2008, Father Martin Spernbauer was elected as administrator for three years . On September 9, 2013, Fr. Josef Riegler OCist (from Heiligenkreuz Abbey) took up his post as administrator of the abbey, after he had previously been elected by the convent for three years. He resigned from the office prematurely, whereupon the convent elected Nikolaus Thiel as the 19th abbot of the monastery. The election took place on February 12, 2016, the Benediction on May 15 by Abbot General Mauro-Giuseppe Lepori .

Currently 26 monks are serving the people, partly in the monastery and partly in various parishes in the area.

The Upper Austria. State exhibition 2009 with the theme “Meal! - Enjoyment and the Art of Eating ”took place from April 29th to November 2nd, 2009 in the Schlierbach Abbey.

History of architecture

The monastery complex is a major work of the Austrian Baroque around 1700. Originally built in 903 as a castle. A women's monastery was set up for 200 years from 1355 to 1556, after which it was vacant, and from 1620 onwards it was resettled by monks from the Cistercian Abbey of Rein, Styria. The renovation by the Italian artist family Carlone in the 17th century (1672 to 1712) is interesting in terms of art history . The artists Carlone refurbished the monastery richly in baroque style with stucco work and frescoes:

The Linz sculptor Johann Baptist Wanscher decorated pilasters with rich gold tendrils and pieces of flowers. The high altar picture , a representation of the Assumption of Mary , comes from Franz Werner Tamm .

Operation and pastoral care

economy

Today the pen is an important economic factor:

  • 230 hectares of forest
  • about 70 hectares of agricultural land
  • Schlierbacher Käserei : The cheese dairy is the only monastery cheese dairy in Austria. It produces 12 different types of cheese
  • Schlierbacher Genusszentrum: Modern event location, also presentation and sale of products made in the monastery
  • Glaserei und Glasmalerei Werkstätte Schlierbach, an internationally renowned workshop

Monastery parishes

In addition to monastic life, the monks also work outside the monastery walls and lead nine parishes, a chaplain, a deanery and have various other pastoral tasks.

Attractions

Interior collegiate church
The organ
The cloister
Schlierbacher Madonna
  • Collegiate Church: built 1680–1682, frescoes and lavish stucco decorations, organ by Manfred Mathis (1985) with a baroque front from 1770
  • Library: built by Carlo Antonio Carlone in 1712 as a cruciform state room with hanging domes in the Baroque style . Gallery on Corinthian wooden pillars, the Linz master builder Johann Michael Prunner attributed
  • Bernardisaal: Baroque state hall with rich stucco decoration on the ceiling and the walls
  • Schlierbacher Madonna: wooden Gothic statue of Mary around 1320, located in the cloister . According to the monastery tradition, the first sisters of the women's monastery at that time brought the statue with them from their Swabian homeland.
  • Schlierbach cheese dairy: since 1924; with attached show dairy
  • Schlierbach glass painting workshop: since 1884, internationally renowned glass painting workshop. National and international artists such as Margret Bilger , Josef Mikl (Memorial Church in Hiroshima), Hans Plank , Rudolf Szyszkowitz , Georg Meistermann , Adi Holzer ... realize (s) works here.
  • Margret Bilger Gallery: Gallery with changing exhibitions of current art

There are guided tours in the monastery, in the glass painting workshops and in the cheese dairy.

List of abbots and administrators of Schlierbach since 1620

  • Wolfgang Sommer, officiated as abbot 1620–1625, previously prior of Rein
  • Johannes Franziskus Keller, officiated as abbot 1627–1644, previously treasurer of Rein
  • Balthasar Rauch, from Graz, officiated as abbot 1645–1660, previously pastor in Wartberg, 1643 right of pontificals, d. 1661
  • Nivard I. Geyregger, from Kremsmünster, officiated as abbot 1660–1679, previously prior in Schlierbach, began with the new baroque building
  • Benedikt Rieger, from Steyr, officiated as abbot 1679–1695, previously pastor in Wartberg, built the church, steeple and convent wing
  • Nivard Dierer 1696-1715
  • Christian Stadler, from Aussee, served as abbot from 1715–1740, previously a conductor in Schlierbach, decoration of the summer prelature, builder of the orangery
  • Josef Eysn, from Kirchdorf, was abbot from 1740–1772, builder of the Maria-Schnee-Chapel
  • Konstantin Frischauf, officiated as abbot from 1772–1803, economic decline of the monastery, Josephinism, emergency sales, loss of personnel, monastic life came to a standstill, collaboration in the clerical branch commission in Linz to abolish the monasteries.
  • Marian Obauer, from Scharnstein, officiated as abbot 1804-1818, previously prior and then pastor in Kirchdorf, had to give up the administration due to the monastery's insolvency.
  • Julian Hametner, administrator 1818–1827, died 1828, completely ruined the monastery
  • Jakob Naber, administrator 1827–1835
  • Alan Burkhard, administrator 1835-1851
  • Franz Xaver Hofer, administrator 1851–1864, previously prior, as abbot 1864–1870, overcoming Josephinism, economic recovery, reintroduction of choral prayer
  • Edmund Rogner, officiated as abbot 1871–1874
  • Florian Schininger, administrator 1874–1882, sale of the Mühlgrub estate including the brewery
  • Gerhard Haslroither , from Linz, administrator 1882–1892, as abbot 1892–1917, previously representative of the administrator
Alois Wiesinger around 1920
  • Dr. Alois Wiesinger , 1917–1955, most important abbot of Schlierbach, monastic renewal based on the Trappist model, founded an agricultural winter school in 1920 and the grammar school in 1925
  • Berthold Niedermoser 1955–1971
  • Dr. Othmar Rauscher 1971–1983, founded the education center in 1974
  • Bernhard Kohout-Berghammer, b. July 1, 1930 in Vöcklabruck, officiated as abbot 1983–1998, resigned on June 30, 1998
  • Altmann Hofinger, b. November 15, 1936 in Heiligenkreuz / Micheldorf, officiated as abbot 1998–2008, resigned
  • Martin Spernbauer, b. 1947, administrator 2008-2013
  • Josef Riegler, b. 1957, administrator 2013–2016
  • Nikolaus Thiel , b. 1969, since 2016

literature

  • Rudolf Flotzinger : Schlierbach. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7001-3046-5 .
  • Ludwig Keplinger: Cistercian monastery Schlierbach . (= Christian art places of Austria , No. 313. Salzburg: Verlag St. Peter, 3rd edition 2009).
  • Frey Nivard: Alois Wiesinger. Abbot, missionary, scientist . In: A. Zauner u. a. (Ed.), Upper Austrian. Pictures of life on the history of Upper Austria. Vol. 2. Linz 1982, pp. 179-191.
  • Franz Xaver Zeller: Chronicle of the Schlierbach Abbey .
  • Municipality of Schlierbach (Ed.): Schlierbach. Home in the past and present . 1st edition. Moserbauer, Ried im Innkreis 2000, ISBN 3-900847-95-9 .

Web links

Commons : Stift Schlierbach  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rudolf Lehr - Oberösterreichische Landeschronik , Vienna: Verlag Christian Brandstätter 2004. Article by Walter Luger, pp. 157-158 ISBN 3-85498-331-X
  2. ^ Leopold Janauschek: Originum Cisterciensium Tomus Primus , Vienna 1877, p. 281.
  3. Kirchen-Zeitung Diözese Linz ( Memento of the original from April 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 19, 2008. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dioezese-linz.at
  4. ^ Catholic Church in Upper Austria , accessed on November 19, 2008.
  5. ^ New superior for Schlierbach Abbey , page on ordensgemeinschaften.at , accessed on February 20, 2014.
  6. Der Standard, article April 27, 2009 , accessed May 24, 2015.