Waldhausen Abbey

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Former monastery and collegiate church Waldhausen im Strudengau (southwest view)
Medieval seal of the regulated canons of Waldhausen
Former Waldhausen Abbey as a whole (northeast view)
Collegiate Church Waldhausen im Strudengau (west view)

The pin Waldhausen is a former convent of the Augustinian Canons (CanReg) in Waldhausen, Strudengau in Austria .

history

The childless nobles Otto von Machland and his wife Jutta (Jeute), who had already founded the Baumgartenberg monastery in 1141 , founded a canon monastery at Säbnich Castle above Sarmingstein together with the Passau bishop Reginbert von Hagenau in 1147 . The monastery was settled by Augustinian canons from Wettenhausen in the diocese of Augsburg and moved to Waldhausen before 1161.

The most important personality from the monastery is canon Konrad von Waldhausen , who worked as a preacher in Vienna from 1350 and as the personal confessor of Emperor Karl IV at the court in Prague from 1363 . His collected sermons also influenced Jan Hus there. The monastery, which was partially destroyed by the Hussite incursions from 1424 to 1432, was rebuilt under Provost Martin Leistenfreund (1443–1447).

In the 16th century the bailiwick was sold to Anna of Prague . From 1647 to 1680, the early / high baroque new building was built by Carlo Canevale under Provost Laurentius Voss .

In 1785 the last provost Floridus Fromwald resigned due to economic difficulties and transferred the administration to the St. Florian and Kremsmünster monasteries . In 1792 Emperor Leopold II abolished the monastery, after which the rule of Waldhausen was transferred to the cathedral chapter in Linz . In 1800 parts of the monastery buildings were demolished and the material used to build the Franzensburg in Laxenburg . The large monastery fountain came to the prelate court of Melk Abbey . Only the north-western monastery wing with the arcades and the gate tower remained.

In an archaeological campaign in 2000, parts of the medieval and early modern monastery complex were uncovered.

Stiftsarchiv

The documents of the monastery were for the most part to the Museum Francisco-Carolinum , today's Upper Austria. Landesmuseum, handed over in Linz. The holdings of the Upper Austrian Provincial Archives include 181 slipcase files, 49 manuscripts and 592 documents from 1147 to 1828, which were written by Dr. Erich Trinks were sorted and listed. Among the 49 manuscripts are 2 late medieval copial books from the 15th century, 2 land records from the monastery from the 15th century, 3 land records from the Klingenberg rulership, several taidings, 1 anthology with written documents about Greinburg and the Löbl and 1 monastery inventory from the year 1614 to be highlighted.

Former collegiate parish churches

At the time of the abolition, 15 incorporated parishes belonged to the monastery.

Todays use

The buildings were restored in the run-up to the Upper Austria State Exhibition in 2002 and gradually put into adequate use. In the course of this restoration, the arcades were glazed. Since 2008, the Leader office for the Strudengau region and the Leader project Individually cared for holidays have been housed there. In addition, apartments for assisted living were set up.

Collegiate church

The first collegiate church was Romanesque - Gothic , it was demolished when it was baroque around 1650. Today's Church of the Assumption of Mary is a uniform wall pillar construction built around 1650 to 1662. Carlo Canevale and Christoph Colomba acted as builders . The exterior is a richly structured church, with a 4-bay nave and a deep 2-bay choir typical of Augustinian canons.

inner space

The interior, which was designed on two floors in chapels and galleries, has an overwhelming effect. The noble spatial effect is determined by the harmony of the strong white stucco decorations by Giovanni Battista Colomba and the bright colors of the ceiling paintings by Christoph Colomba or G. Hausen, as well as the heavily cranked supporting pilasters and beams and the darkly preserved furnishings on the (worth seeing) altars and pews.

Organs

The organ of the collegiate church was built in 1803 by the organ builder Rumel the Younger. The instrument has 16 stops on two manuals and a pedal . The playing and stop actions are mechanical.

I Pleno Work C – d 3
Principal plenary VII-XI
II positive C – f 3
Copl 8th'
Pointed flute 8th'
Salicet 8th'
Principal 4 ′
flute 4 ′
Quint 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Octav 2 ′
Mixture IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Mixture III 1'
shawm 8th'
Pedals C – d 1
Sub bass 16 ′
Principal 8th'
Dacked bass 8th'
Choral bass 4 ′
Bombard 16 ′

The Anton Heiller memorial organ on the west gallery is a newer organ that has been wonderfully adapted to the interior design in the baroque style.

See also

literature

  • Klaus Birngruber: Studies on the early documents of the Waldhausen monastery (1147-1332). Master's thesis University of Vienna - Faculty of History and Cultural Studies. Vienna 2008 ( digitized version ).
  • Georg Grüll : Waldhausen Abbey Archives. Upper Austrian Provincial Archives. Linz 1959 ( PDF on landesarchiv-ooe.at).
  • Hubert Franz Xaver Müller: Founding and economic history of the Augustinian Canons' Monastery Waldhausen O.Ö. until the end of the 16th century. Dissertation. Innsbruck 1959.
  • Hubert Franz Xaver Müller: The canon law of the Augustinian Canons of Waldhausen in the late Middle Ages. Its beginnings u. and his parish network. In: Yearbook of the Upper Austrian Museum Association. 1968, pp. 73-108, online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at.
  • Franz Xaver Pritz: History of the abandoned monastery of the regulated Canons of Heil. Augustinus zu Waldhausen im Lande ob der Enns (From Volume IX of the Archives for Customer of Austrian Historical Sources published by the Imperial Academy of Sciences.) In: Archive for Customer of Austrian Historical Sources. Volume 9, 1853, pp. 305ff, 48 pages ( Google E-Book ).
  • Klaus Rumpler: Waldhausen Abbey Archives. In: Upper Austrian Provincial Archives (Hrsg.): House of History. The holdings of the Upper Austrian Provincial Archives. Volume 10, Linz 1998, p. 106.
  • Konrad Schiffmann : The medieval Stiftsurbare of the Archduchy of Austria above the Enns. III. Part: Baumgartenberg, St. Florian, Waldhausen, Wilhering. In: Imperial Academy of Sciences 3rd Dept. (Ed.): Österreichische Urbare. Braumüller, Vienna and Leipzig 1915 ( Google Book , DeGruyter ).
  • Franz Schmutz: The message of an anniversary - 850 years of Waldhausen's founding (1147-1997). In: New archive for the history of the Diocese of Linz. 1998, pp. 258–285, online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at.
  • Ilse Schütz: Waldhausen. In: Floridus Röhrig (ed.): The former monasteries of the Augustinian Canons in Austria and South Tyrol. Klosterneuburg 2005, pp. 643-660.
  • Ignaz Zibermayr : The Upper Austrian Provincial Archives in Linz. In the picture of the development of the local writing system and the history of the country. Linz 1950, pp. 228-229.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Document: Upper Austrian document book, secular part (540-1399) 1147 V 16 (Bishop Reginbert von Passau confirms the foundation of the Waldhausen monastery by Otto von Machland and gives it some possessions) in the European document archive Monasterium.net .
  2. ↑ a b c d Monika Würthinger, Josef Hörmandinger: Orders, secular institutes and spiritual communities in the Diocese of Linz. A historical-topographical documentation. Linz 2005, pp. 45–47, online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at.
  3. ↑ Eckhard Upper bracket: District Perg, art and history. Linz 2010, p. 257.
  4. ↑ Stiftsarchiv Waldhausen on landesarchiv-ooe.at.
  5. ^ Waldhausen on musiklexikon.ac.at.
  6. ^ Collection: Waldhausen, former Augustinian Canons (1147–1826). on monastery .
  7. ↑ Map of the medieval parishes of Waldhausen Abbey according to the current parish boundaries in Müller 1968, PDF p. 89.
  8. ↑ List of monasteries in Austria on kath-orden.at.

Coordinates: 48 ° 16 ′ 51 ″  N , 14 ° 57 ′ 13 ″  E