Ursulinenhof
The Ursulinenhof in Linz is the former convent of the Ursuline and forms with the Ursulinenkirche a square courtyard with an almost square courtyard. The building is a historical monument.
history
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The monastery was founded in 1679 with an imperial decree. After buying several buildings, the Ursuline Church was built from 1680 to 1681 and then the monastery building from 1692 to 1723. A school started operating as early as 1680. From 1929 the school was a secondary school. Between 1938 and 1945 the monastery building was expropriated and served as a courthouse and was taken over by the order again after 1945. In 1968 the Ursulines left the Ursulinenhof and sold it to the state of Upper Austria .
The building has been used as the Ursulinenhof regional cultural center since 1977, accommodating several cultural institutions and facilities of the federal state of Upper Austria. These are the Upper Austrian Art Association , the gallery of the Zülow Group , the professional association of visual artists in Austria's Upper Austria section , the Friends of Linz Music Theater , the Nextcomic Corner , and Upper Austria. Press club, the Club-Galerie Linz of the Dr. Ernst Koref Foundation , the Upper Austrian Photography Society and the U-Hof Theater for young audiences. In the basement of the building is the u \ hof:, a theater in which critical plays by contemporary artists have been performed for years, and now (2012) plays for young people.
On June 3, 2009 the roof structure of the Ursulinenhof caught fire from flying sparks. The sparks were created during cutting work in the basement and were distributed under the roof via a ventilation shaft. The newly built ballroom and some other rooms were badly damaged.
location
The mighty baroque building is connected to the Ursuline Church and, together with the Carmelite Church, which is separated from the Ursuline area by Harrachstraße, dominates the Landstraße in Linz. To the east of it stands the chapel of Our Lady of Altötting on a now open square - in front of it the closed cloister garden of the Ursuline . To the northeast is the former Ursuline School, built from 1930 to 1931 and 1936 to 1937, which has been used as Upper Austria's Open House of Culture since the late 1980s .
literature
- Dehio Linz 2009 , Former Ursuline Convent, pp. 216–219.
- History - From the former monastery to the modern regional cultural center (PDF; 3.2 MB), brochure of the Province of Upper Austria, Linz 2012
Web links
- Landeskulturzentrum Ursulinenhof , ursulinenhof.at
Individual evidence
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^ Ursulinenhof in Linz burns , nachrichten.at, June 3, 2009.
Cause of fire in the Ursulinenhof clarified , news.orf.at, June 4, 2009
Coordinates: 48 ° 18 ′ 8.3 " N , 14 ° 17 ′ 24.4" E