Garsten Abbey
The pin Garsten is a former monastery of the Benedictine (OSB) in Garsten in Austria. Today is located in the buildings of the prison Garsten.
History
The monastery was founded in 1082 by Otakar II as Säkularkanonikerstift and Kloster (also grave gear); it served the Traun Gauern next to the Styraburg as the focal point of their rule.
From 1107 it was (from Göttweig dependent ) Benedictine priory and from 1110/11 independent abbey, in the diocese of Passau. Admits became the pin through its first abbot, Berthold of Garsten.
Since 1490, under Frederick III. , The area is one of Austria above the Enns. Since 1784, Emperor Joseph II, the Diocese of Passau forced to their parishes in Upper and Lower Austria to surrender, it belonged to Linz.
In 1787 the abbey was abolished by Emperor Joseph II.
Garsten has long been the religious, cultural and intellectual center of the iron. Partly preserved are the high medieval tradition books of the monastery, the scarce records of the history of ownership (such as the transfer of land or people) that combine descriptions of legal disputes and historiographical notes.
Double coat of arms over the portal of the parsonage Mollner
Possessions
Even as a foundation equipment it received, probably from the dowry of the wife of the founder, Elizabeth, daughter of Babenberg, Leopold II, significant ownership in the Lower Austrian Traisen and Gölsental. The Steyr Traungau who had opened up the mark on the Mur River, were increasingly moved in the Graz area in the early 12th century and formed today's Styria. After 1138 bequeathed Sophie, widow of Leopold I, the Strong and regent for Ottokar (III. Styria ), the whole rule Gaflenz, as a wedding gift to her own possession, to the monastery. This was Gaflenz, originally a branch of Waidhofen an der Ybbs, collected within the limits Neustiftergrabenbach / Bischofsberg and Frenz Bach to the parish. 1151 swapped Bishop Konrad I of Passau his Zehentanspruch on Gaflenz with Garsten.
Many parishes in the Enns and Steyr were dependent, such as Molln: there are the coats of arms of the monastery and the abbot Garsten Konstantin mother DC About the Portal of 1734 completed parsonage. However, the influence extended well beyond that: Since 1163/67 the parish church of St. Magdalena Linz was in a Garstner own church. In Vienna Nußdorf the monastery had a vineyard and in the near Heiligenstadt a bathhouse.
Collegiate Church
The collegiate church was built by the Builder Carlone family and is one of the most beautiful buildings of the high baroque in Austria. These stucco and tapestries of Dutch origin, which are imposed as Advent and Lent with the Kremser Schmidt designed by Fast towels. Particularly worth seeing are lots Steiner Chapel ( grave laying of lots Steiner), the sacristy and the choir summer.
Current usage
Since 1851 located in the buildings of the former pin a penal institution. The prison Garsten one of the few prisons in Austria, where life imprisonment is completed. The former collegiate church serves as a parish church.
Berthold - organ
In the course of the general renovation of the church and the organ Berthold was renewed. From the old church organ, only the two 100 -year-old organ case could be reused, everything else was planned and built new from the company Rudolf von Beckerath Organ Builders GmbH. On 14 July 2009, the first organ parts from Hamburg were brought to Garsten for assembly. The consecration of the Berthold - organ on 8 December 2009 marked the completion of the extensive renovation of the Baroque church.