Ursuline Church (Linz)

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Ursuline Church
High altar

The Roman Catholic Ursuline Church on Linzer Landstrasse , consecrated to Archangel Michael , was built between 1736 and 1772 with two towers and a late Baroque facade. It was consecrated in 1757 . The design goes back to the architect Johann Haslinger .

Attached is the former monastery, today the Ursulinenhof cultural center .

Construction and equipment

Inside there are interesting ironwork work and numerous altarpieces by Bartolomeo Altomonte .

The high altar designed by Johann Matthias Krinner was erected in 1741. The high altar painting from the years 1738–1740 is by Martino Altomonte . It shows the church patron, the archangel Michael, in the center. In front of it the archangels Gabriel and Raphael are shown, the angel Uriel can also be seen.

The late baroque pulpit from 1740 shows the bas-reliefs Raphael accompanies Tobias , Jacob's dream of the angel's ladder and the sacrifice of the parents of Samson on the curved basket . The sound cover with a mighty figure structure with putti as allegories show the four parts of the world known at the time, Europe, Asia, Africa and America and, as a crown, angels sitting on a globe with a cross and monstrance.

The Ursuline Church was formerly the monastery church of the Ursulines and has served as an art and concert church since the restoration in 1985. It is also the parish church for the Forum St. Severin (Catholic Academic Association of the Diocese of Linz).

organ

View of the organ

The organ of the Ursuline Church was built in 1876 by the organ builder Franz Sales Ehrlich and restored in 2006 by Orgelbau Kuhn from Männedorf, Switzerland. The instrument ( abrasive loading and slopes valve loading ) has 18  registers on two manual works and pedal . The playing and stop actions are mechanical.

I main work C – f 3
1. Principal 8th'
2. Philomele 8th'
3. Dolce 8th'
4th Octav 4 ′
5. Flauto traversa 4 ′
6th Pointed fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
7th violin 2 ′
8th. Mixture IV
II subsidiary work C – f 3
9. Gamba 8th'
10. Drone 8th'
11. Marian flute 8th'
12. Hollow flute 4 ′
13. Viola d'amour 4 ′
14th Cornetto IV 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Pedal C – d 1
15th Violon 16 ′
16. Sub bass 16 ′
17th Octavbass 8th'
18th trombone 16 ′

literature

  • Dehio Linz 2009 , Upper and Lower Suburbs, So-called Ursuline Church of St. Michael, pp. 212–216.
  • Ursuline Church of St. Michael. Pp. 18-19. In: Christoph Freilinger, Martina Gelsinger: Churches in Linz. Art guide, Dean's Office of the Linz Region in cooperation with the Art Department of the Diocese of Linz, Linz 2009.

Web links

Commons : Ursulinenkirche Linz  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information about the organ on the website of the organ builder

Coordinates: 48 ° 18 ′ 8.9 ″  N , 14 ° 17 ′ 23 ″  E