Schlierbach Abbey

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The pin Schlierbach is a monastery of Cistercian monks ( OCist ) in Schlierbach in Upper Austria. Currently, 26 monks provided partly in the convent and various parishes around their service to the people.

  • 3.1 Social Projects
  • 5.1 Upper Austrian Provincial Exhibition 2009

History

Prehistory to the 19th century

In the 10th century the Swabian Count Zwentibold built a castle on the site of today's pin. These acquired in 1352 Eberhard V (III ) of Wallsee and donated in 1355 in a Cistercian monastery. This was then called "women's room " or " Marie Hall". The property has been extended through purchases, donations and foundations. Eberhard left the monastery about the former castle Steyr stone (since about 1500 Sanctuary wife stone) and income of 1337 he acquired dominion Pernštejna. In the following 200 years 18 abbesses were standing outside the monastery. From this time nothing of construction or renovation has been handed down.

The Reformation meant the temporary end - up to 90 percent of the population changed temporarily to the Protestant faith. From 1609 to 1620 Schlierbach was therefore managed by Kremsmünster from. Then, during the Counter Reformation, the Emperor Ferdinand II approved a settlement by Cistercian monks. This came out clean in Graz. The local abbot Mattias Gülger began in 1620 and sent the Prior Wolfgang Sommer ( the first new abbot ) along with some monks to Schlierbach. Mainly pastoral care in the upper Kremstal should be rebuilt what was initially complicated by peasant uprisings. However, Franz Keller (Abt 1627-1644 ) had already been the seat and vote in the Estates and Abbot Balthasar smoke received in 1654, for himself and his successors, the episcopal insignia miter, pectoral cross and crosier. The intellectual and economic ascent did now rapidly.

Meanwhile, the former castle was in extremely poor condition. Therefore Nivard I. Geyregger ( Abbot of 1660-1679 ) began with a complete new building in Baroque style. Under his leadership, in 1674 the Western Front, 1678, the north and east front of the prelate Court and the abbey tower were completed. Benedict Rieger ( Abbot of 1679-1695 ) commissioned Pietro Francesco Carlone and his son with the construction of the church ( 1680-1683 ).

Under Christian Stadler ( Abbot of 1715-1740 ), the economic upswing continued. It mill, saw mill and bakery were established. At the time the Convention was one of thirty monks. However Josephinian time and Napoleonic wars led to the decline; also burned the Grange in 1825. Another deep cut was the dissolution of the manorial system, which required a complete economic reorientation. For the next fifty years no abbot stood before the pin, only towards the end of the 19th century, the situation improved.

Newer time

Alois Wiesinger (1885-1955) was the first major superior of the monastery in the present, he reigned 1917-1955 as 14th Dept. In the postwar years, welding, carpentry and gardening were re-equipped. Was newly established a monastery cheese, which soon became an important economic factor. The lay brothers institute was established in 1922 again. In the same year, the pen took on an agricultural school and in 1925 he founded a gymnasium was 1932, the public's right.

In 1938, closed, opened the school again in 1946 and has since 1947 again public law. Since 1977, even girls are taught.

Presence

Of 15 July 1998 to 15 November 2008 was abbot Altmann Hofinger the monastic community of 21 monks before ( 2007). November 18, 2008 Father Martin Spernbauer was elected for three years as an administrator. On September 9, 2013 Father Josef Riegler OCist entered (from the Abbey of Heiligenkreuz ) to his position as administrator of the pen after he had previously been elected by the Convention for three years ..

Parish ministry

In addition to the monastic life, the monks also act outside the monastery walls and conduct nine parishes, a chaplaincy, a deanery and have various other pastoral functions at.

  • Chaplaincy Inzersdorf
  • Parish Administration Leonstein
  • Deanery Windischgarsten

Work in Jequitiba (Brazil )

The early Cistercian monks were known for the cultivation of the Christian East. Modeled after the Order of P. fathers wanted to record this tradition Alois Wiesinger ( Abbot of Schlierbach 1917-1955 ). In 1938, the parish Jacobina was acquired with an area of ​​over 5000 square kilometers in northeastern Brazil. 1939 From here began the foundation of the monastery Jequitiba.

Jequitiba is thus a daughter house of the abbey Schlierbach.

Due to Nazism Abt Alois Wiesinger could take care of himself to his foundation 1939-1946. A total of 23 priests and brothers of Schlierbach have gone to Brazil today. Since 1950 Jequitiba is an independent abbey, which is led by the third Abbot Joseph Hehenberger since 2004. Even if the mother monastery Schlierbach today does not exempt more confreres for Jequitiba, we see but in the financial support of the " Schlierbacher mission work" and in promoting the concerns of the Church in Brazil a crucial task.

Social projects

  • Chapel schools in Jacobina (Bahia): Alfred P. Haasler announced in 1938 the local pastoral area in 40 field offices and founded the so-called everywhere " Chapel Schools " places for education and worship. He was known as " itinerant " and " healer" known.
  • Youth protection project: After working in Jequitiba monastery was Father Joseph Hehenberger 1979 pastor in Jacobina (Bahia) and founded the youth protection center Fazendinha JJJ to the children off the streets and to boost their self -esteem. They should be empowered citizen.
  • Jobs and Education: The 1.Abt of Jequitiba, P. Anton Moser, saw his task is to give the people around work. Agricultural workers settlements that are partly guided cooperative, provide the individual land and labor. In training workshops young people are trained and in the clinic will be provided for medical care. Abt Meinrad Schröger it was a concern, a " school " that our high school / elementary school corresponds roughly to build in the form of evening classes. In the monastery itself, he created a retreat, educational and recreational center.

History of Architecture

Schlierbach Monastery: The monastery complex is a major work of the Austrian Baroque around 1700 originally built in the year 903 as a castle. . From 1355 to 1556 200 years was a nunnery established, then vacant, since 1620 repopulating by monks from the Abbey Seckau, Styria. Art History interesting is the renovation by the Italian artist family Carlone in the 17th century ( 1672-1712 ). The artists Carlone endowed the monastery in baroque style with rich frescoes and stucco new from:

  • Pietro Francesco Carlone. builder
  • Carlo Antonio Carlone. Builder. (Son of F. P. Carlone )
  • Giovanni Battista Carlone. Sculptor. Plasterer. (Son of P.F. Carlone )
  • Giovanni Carlone. fresco painter

The Linz sculptor Johann Baptist Wanscher ornate pilasters with rich gold foliage and flowers pieces. The high altarpiece, a representation of the Assumption of Mary, comes from Franz Werner Tamm.

Attractions

  • Collegiate Church: built in 1680-1682 in Baroque style, with frescoes and lavish stucco decorations
  • Library: 1712 pageantry built as a cross-shaped room with hanging crests in Baroque style by Carlo Antonio Carlone. Attributed gallery on wooden pillars Corinthian, the Linz architect Johann Michael Prunner
  • Bernardisaal: Baroque State Hall with rich stucco decoration on the ceiling and the walls
  • Schlierbacher Madonna: Gothic wooden statue of Mary in 1320, is located in the Baroque cloister. After the monastic tradition, the first sisters of the former convent brought the statue from her native Swabia.
  • Schlierbach: with connected cheese factory since 1924
  • Stained glass workshop Schlierbach: since 1884, internationally renowned stained glass workshop. National and international artists such as Margret Bilger, Josef Mikl ( Memorial Church in Hiroshima ), Hans Plank, Rudolf Szyszkowitz, Georg Meister man, Adi Holzer ... realized works here.
  • Margret Bilger Gallery: gallery with changing exhibitions of contemporary art

It will be offered in the pen, in the stained glass workshops and in the cheese factory tours.

Upper Austrian Provincial Exhibition 2009

The Upper Austria. National exhibition in 2009 with the theme " meal! - Enjoyment and art of eating " was April 29 to November 2, 2009 in the premises of pen Schlierbach instead.

Economy

The pen is now a major economic factor:

  • 230 hectares of forest
  • Approximately 70 hectares of agricultural land
  • Schlierbacher cheese factory, the only monastery cheese Austria produces 12 different varieties of " Schlierbacher cheese "
  • Opened Schlierbacher Genusszentrum, 2004
  • Glazier and stained glass workshop Schlierbach, an internationally renowned workshop
  • School pen Schlierbach exists since 1925, since 1977 also for girls
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