Stams Abbey

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Cistercian Abbey of Stams
Stams Abbey in Tyrol
Stams Abbey in Tyrol
location AustriaAustria Austria
Tyrol
Lies in the diocese innsbruck
Coordinates: 47 ° 16 '39 "  N , 10 ° 59' 3"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 16 '39 "  N , 10 ° 59' 3"  E
Serial number
according to Janauschek 		673
founding year 1273
Year of dissolution /
annulment
persisting with brief interruptions
Mother monastery Kaisheim Monastery
Primary Abbey Morimond Monastery
Congregation Mehrerauer Congregation

Daughter monasteries

Lower maize priory ( Merano )

Stams Abbey (Latin Abbatia BMV et Sancti Ioannis Baptistae de Stams ) is the Cistercian Abbey  (OCist) in Stams in Tyrol in Austria . It belongs to the Mehrerau congregation and the diocese of Innsbruck . The monastery church of Our Lady was elevated to a minor basilica in 1983 .

history

The monastery was founded in 1273 as a family foundation of the Counts of Görz-Tirol by Meinhard II and his wife Elisabeth von Bayern (widow of Staufer Konrad IV ). It was also intended to serve as a burial place for the Tyrolean sovereigns and, in this function, replace the parish church of Bolzano , which had not been planned before . In order to give the monastery / monastery an economic basis, the existing rulership and property rights were replaced by the founder and at the same time the parishes of Silz , St. Peter and Untermais as well as the Martinskirche zu Mals were incorporated, so that the monastery / monastery, which was also the Had jurisdiction over the village of Stams, it soon became an important economic center of the region.

The first inmates of the monastery were twelve monks and five lay brothers under Abbot Heinrich von Honstätten from the mother monastery in Kaisheim in Swabia . The monastery belonged to the filiation of the primary abbey of Morimond . From 1347 to 1350 the monastery housed the imperial regalia . In the 16th century there was a decline in the monastery. The Reformation, the damage from the Peasant Wars in 1525 and the great fire of 1593 ultimately led to the convent shrinking significantly and sometimes only consisted of three monks. In 1552 troops of Elector Moritz von Sachsen plundered the monastery and also destroyed the crypt of the sovereigns, as well as the grave of Moritz's brother, Severinus von Sachsen († 1533). The convent building was rebuilt at the beginning of the 17th century. The distinctive onion domes were created under Abbot Edmund Zoz (1690–1699). At the beginning of the 18th century, the master builder Georg Anton Gumpp redesigned the Cisterze . In the second half of the 18th century it was the place of activity of important musicians such as the Stams father Stefan Paluselli or Johann Michael Malzat from Vienna and the chronicler Cassian Primisser .

In 1807 the Bavarian government abolished the monastery / monastery. It was in 1816 after the return of Tyrol in Austria under Emperor Franz I. rebuilt. In 1938/39 the monastery was dissolved and confiscated by the National Socialist rulers and served as a resettlement home for emigrants from South Tyrol .

After the war ended in 1945, it was taken over again by Cistercian monks. They housed educational institutions in the monastery buildings and transferred lease land to the settlers.

The 18-year general renovation of the monastery was completed in 2016.

present

Today the monastery runs a museum, a monastery shop, a schnapps distillery and an alpine pasture . Stams Abbey is

Attractions

Stams Collegiate Church in Tyrol
Interior of the Stams collegiate church in Tyrol
Choir stalls and high altar of the Stams collegiate church

The collegiate church was consecrated in 1284. It was originally a Romanesque basilica, which was rebuilt in the high baroque style by Georg Anton Gumpp from 1729–1733 . The vaulted frescoes in the nave show scenes from the life of the Virgin and are by the Augsburg painter Johann Georg Wolcker . The magnificent stucco is a work by Franz Xaver Feuchtmayr from the Wessobrunn school . In 1984 Pope John Paul II elevated the collegiate church to the rank of minor basilica .

  • The early baroque high altar in the form of a tree of life with 84 sculptures was created by the Weilheim carver Bartlme Steinle around 1610 .
  • The pulpit is a work by Andreas Kölle from Fendels in the Upper Inn Valley.
  • The Crucifixion and the presentation Madonna and Child opposite the pulpit created Andreas Tamasch.
  • The baroque choir organ dates from 1757, was built by Andreas Jäger from Füssen and has 12 registers .
  • The so-called “Austrian grave” by the Tyrolean artist Andreas Thamasch , which was built in 1684 and set into the floor in the west of the central nave, forms a counterpoint to the main altar . It is a memorial to important Tyrolean sovereigns buried in Stams and their family members with life-size carved and gilded figures.
  • In fact, those buried in the collegiate church are not in the Austrian grave , but in front of the high altar, where there are two grave slabs in the floor to the left and right.
  • The Holy Blood Chapel was brought into its present form in 1716 from an older building. The high altar was created by the court carpenter Sigmund Zeller , the altar statues are by Andreas Kölle , the wall paintings are by Josef Schöpf .
  • A memorial plaque was inaugurated in the vestibule of the collegiate church in 2000, commemorating Konradin , the son of the founder Elisabeth von Bayern and the last Staufer.
  • The Bernhardisaal in the west wing of the abbey was built in 1720 by Georg Anton Gumpp. It serves as a ballroom and contains numerous paintings on the ceiling and walls that were created in 1722 by Franz Michael Hueber and his student Anton Zoller and depict events from the life of St. Show Bernhard von Clairvaux .

Abbots

Abbey parish churches

literature

See also

Web links

Commons : Stift Stams  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Stambs in the Topographia Austriacarum (Matthäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hannes Obermair : Church and city development. The parish church of Bozen in the High Middle Ages (11th – 13th centuries) . In: The Sciliar . 69th year, issue 8/9, 1995, p. 449–474, reference p. 466 ( academia.edu ).
  2. ↑ Stams Abbey shines in new splendor on orf.at, September 24, 2016.