Brothers of Mercy Hospital (Linz)
The Brothers of Mercy Hospital is a hospital of the Brothers of Mercy of St. John of God in Linz .
location
The convent building and the church initially only faced Herrenstrasse. In the course of the construction of the nearby St. Mary of the Conception Cathedral , Rudigierstrasse was broken through to the north of the church in 1891, resulting in a corner solution. A single-storey street section of the pharmacy of the Brothers of Mercy was built north of the church on Rudigierstrasse. To the south and east of the church are the convent and hospital buildings. Again to the south of the entire building complex is the monastery and hospital of the Sisters of Mercy.
history
The former infirmary in Straßfelden was probably located on today's Schillerplatz since 1344. This infirmary was dedicated to the Brothers of Mercy in 1756, rebuilt and in 1759 St. Consecrated to Anna. From 1787 to 1789 the abandoned former Carmelite convent was taken over by order of Emperor Josef II to set up a hospital there. The Annakloster was used for other purposes and was demolished in 1912.
With the purchase of several free houses from 1710 to 1720 in Herrengasse and with the laying of the foundation stone in 1713, a Carmelite convent was built according to the plans of the architect Johann Michael Prunner . In 1782 the monastery was closed. In 1787 the monastery was handed over to the Barmherzige Brüder, who moved into the building in 1789 after renovations. The church and the convent building are under monument protection .
Monastery church for the Immaculate Conception of Mary
Originally, the Carmelites founded a new monastery here in 1710 with the support of Empress Eleonore Magdalene from Vienna. The monastery church had under the Carmelites the patronage of St. Theresa of Avila . According to the plans of the architect Johann Michael Prunner, probably only the choir was built in the first construction phase from 1713 to 1716 and was consecrated in 1716. With the second building phase from 1729 to 1732 the church was completed and consecrated again by the Bishop of Passau in 1743. In the course of the Josephine reforms , Emperor Joseph II dissolved the Carmelite Convent in 1782. The inventory of the church and the monastery was then sold in favor of the religious fund and the building was used as a depot. Among other things, the baroque high altar with the altarpiece of St. Theresia von Avila (re. Martino Altomonte , 1727) transferred to the parish church in Frankenmarkt . After the Merciful Brothers founded their first hospital in Linz (at what is now Schillerpark) in 1757 and had a lack of space, in 1787 Emperor Josef II handed over the former Carmelite convent to the Merciful Brothers. After various modifications, the relocation took place in 1789. Among other things, the original choir of the church was shortened considerably during the renovations , and the resulting space was divided into three floors with two false ceilings. In 1796 the drawn-in facade tower was removed.
The oval building with a swinging main facade shows the baroque dynamic design language both on the facade and inside. The powerful concave curved main facade follows the facade of the Carmelite Church in St. Pölten , which was planned and built by the sculptor and architect Matthias Steinl from 1708 to 1712. The interior of the church is based on the oval baroque Carmelite Church of St. Joseph in Prague , which was planned by the architect Abraham Paris. The church was restored on the outside in 1949 and on the inside in 1963, and there were further restorations in 1992 and 2007.
High altar
The high altar was erected in 1857 and partly made by the art studio owner Ferdinand Scheck (1827-1891). The tabernacle with two adoring angels comes from the chapel of the convalescent home of St. Theresa of the Brothers of Mercy in Vienna. The flanking statues represent the archangels Raphael (patron of the order) and Michael (patron of the Austrian order province). The high altar painting with the motif Maria Immaculata (the immaculate conception of Mary) was created by Martin Johann Schmidt (Kremser Schmidt) and is dated 1773. Above the high altar is an oval fresco, which is surrounded by a stucco frame and depicts God the Father with a scepter and the Archangel Michael with a scales . Below the high altar is another picture depicting the Holy Family . It was painted by Marzik Thomas in 1854 and is a copy of the portrait in the Barmherzigen-Brüder-Kirche in Vienna .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Brothers of Mercy: Monastery Church ; Retrieved April 7, 2015
- ^ Linz culture: Barmherzige Brüder Kirche ; Retrieved April 7, 2015
- ↑ Dehio Upper Austria; fifth edition, Verlag Anton Schroll & Co Vienna, p. 162
Coordinates: 48 ° 18 ′ 0.1 ″ N , 14 ° 17 ′ 15.6 ″ E