Tutz column

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The Tutz Column; in the background the Klosterneuburg collegiate church .

The Tutzsäule , also known as the Eternal Light Column, is a Gothic plague column or lamp for the dead on Stiftsplatz in Klosterneuburg .

It was donated by Michel Tutz in 1381 after a plague that occurred in Klosterneuburg . The builder Michael Knab is accepted as the sculptor . The column is earlier than Knab's spinner on the cross in Wiener Neustadt. It is six-sided and has a rich blend of tracery . Under the light house, the reliefs show representations from the Passion of Christ : Mount of Olives, sleeping disciples, flagellation, Christ on the cross with Mary Magdalene and John, resurrection, Christ and Thomas.

In 1968, a war memorial for the First and Second World Wars was added around the column in the form of a lattice . In the course of the redesign of the Stiftplatz in 2009, the lattice war memorial was removed, a new war memorial designed by the architect Heinz Tesar and placed in front of the masonry of the Sebastianigruft.

In a hiking guide from the Biedermeier period , the work of Vienna's Environs on Twenty Hours Surrounded by Adolf Schmidl from 1835, the Tutz column, then known as the "Pillar of Eternal Light", is also described:

“Along with the spinner on the cross on the Wienerberge and the Neustädter memorial column, it is the only monument of this type and size in the Archduchy , of the same graceful construction and no less venerable than that. According to the inscription:
Anno Domini MCCCLXXXI perfectum hoc opus erat, mox post pestilenciam in the 8th Nicosii Martyris quando et duo Papae fuerunt ( Urban VI. And Clemens VII. )
The monument was erected in 1381, probably as a result of a vow made at the time of the recent plague, by a knight Michael Tutz, who donated an eternal lamp for it, which is where its name comes from. The column is even endowed with indulgences because several relics are walled in it. "

literature

  • Alfred Fischeneder-Meiseneder: The architecture of the Gothic in the east of Austria. Studies of sacred buildings in the 14th and 15th centuries with a focus on the period around 1400 . Diss. University of Vienna 2016, p. 73ff.
  • Elisabeth Hassmann : Master Michael. Builder of the Dukes of Austria. The Tutz column in Klosterneuburg. Diss. University of Vienna 1996, Böhlau Verlag Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-205-99354-3 , pages 491ff.
  • Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria: Lower Austria south of the Danube. Part 2. M to Z. Klosterneuburg. Tutz column. Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.), Verlag Berger, Horn / Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85028-365-8 , page 1048.

Web links

Commons : Tutzsäule  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death lamp . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 15, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 776.
  2. ^ [1] Harald Hartmann: wayside shrines in Klosterneuburg. Retrieved October 27, 2010
  3. ↑ noe-gestalten.at  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Reinhard Schandl: The new war memorial in Klosterneuburg Abbey. Brochure 123 / March 2009, Retrieved October 27, 2010@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.noe-gestalten.at  
  4. ^ Adolf Schmidl: Vienna's surroundings for twenty hours in a circle. Described by Adolf Schmidl after his own hikes. Printed and published by Carl Gerold, Vienna 1835, pp. 247–248.
  5. ↑ [2] Elisabeth Hassmann, see literature

Coordinates: 48 ° 18 ′ 24.5 ″  N , 16 ° 19 ′ 32.6 ″  E