Göss Abbey

The pin Göss is a former monastery of the Benedictines (OSB) in Göss, a district of Leoben in Austria. Today no longer receive are the parish church, the cemetery and the buildings west of the church. It is also known that Brunnhöfl, which is still largely intact. In the showroom of the pen, a reusable and downward folding of Emperor Josef coffin can be admired from 1784.

  • 2.1 minsters
  • 2.2 Gosser Regalia

History

The monastery was founded in 1004 by Adula / Adele of Leoben ( she was and is still regarded as the " blessed Adula " although it was never beatified ), wife of Count Palatine Aribos I., and her son Aribo, later archbishop of Mainz, on Aribonengut founded and colonized by the imperial abbey Nonnberg in Salzburg with Benedictine. The first abbess was Cunegonde, the sister of Archbishop Aribos. Göß was the only imperial abbey (from 1020 by Emperor Henry II ) in the later Habsburg Empire. Pin Göß formed over centuries for the Styrian nobility a center for the education and care of his daughters. There were basically only included nuns who came from the nobility. 1782 the monastery was dissolved. From 1783 it served as the seat of the newly established shortly Diocese of Leoben.

1827 was bought by the Vordernberger Radmeisterkommunität that was interested primarily on forest ownership. In 1860 it got to the Graz brewer Max Kober ( already in 1459 the first pin - brewer was called ); since here is the brewery Göss, which includes all former collegiate buildings, apart from the church, the bell and clock tower and the parsonage.

Even today visited the old collegiate church and the chapel of St. Michael, which the only Leobner Bishop Count Alexander Angel of Wagrein formerly served as a private chapel. It is a Romanesque building in spikey style with wall paintings depicting the Song of Solomon, decorated. Another object is owned by the parish is the so-called " Josephine Coffin", a coffin which could be re-used for wood saving by being hinged downwards and so only the wound in linen corpse in the grave remained, the coffin was reused. This would also counteract the pompous funerals this time of the Enlightenment committed Emperor Joseph II. He is also one of the best preserved folding coffins that are out there, because he was only very rarely used.

Abbesses of Göß

  • 1020-1027 Kunigund I.
  • 1040 Wilburgis
  • 1066 Richardis
  • 11th century Margaretha
  • 12th century Hemma
  • 1146-1177 Adelheid of Spanheim
  • 1188-1203 Ottilie von Guttenberg
  • 1203-1230 Ottilie II
  • 1239-1269 Kunigund II
  • 1271-1283 Herburgis of honor rock
  • 1283-1298 Euphemia
  • 1298-1322 Herradis of Breitenfort
  • 1322-1338 Berta of Pux and Pranckh
  • 1340-1449 Diemut
  • 1349-1354 Catherine of Strettweg
  • 1355-1372 Gertraut of Hannau
  • 1381-1398 Catherine of turkey
  • 1399-1421 Aloisia of Herberstorff
  • 1421-1428 Gertrude of Helfenberg
  • 1428-1463 Anne of Herberstorff

Description and art objects

In the collegiate church of the former monastery Göß is a large building from the late Gothic period. Art history are especially interesting as the early Romanesque crypt under the choir of the church, the early Gothic frescoes in the chapel of St. Michael ( the so-called Zackenstil ) and the impressive roof of the church.

Josefinischer coffin from 1784

Ceiling painting in the church

Front uprights in the Church

Monolith in the crypt

Minsters

From the former parish church, the former St. Andrew's Church, which was demolished in the time of Emperor Joseph II, still stands the bell and clock tower. Saint Andrew, the patron was at the former parish church, was also the patron saint of the new church. The altarpiece on the high altar also from the former parish church. Prior to the dissolution of the monastery were so researchers suspect about 17 bells in the pen. Today there are only five, the oldest dating from the 15th century. Another bell is located in the cemetery belonging to Göß church, dedicated to St. Erhard, and two more in St. Mary's Church Maria Brunn cold and in the church at Calvary, which also belong to Göß.

Gosser Regalia

The famous Gosser Regalia, a valuable Romanesque silk embroidery, which was donated by the Abbess Cunegonde II and manufactured together with their sisters, is now in the permanent collection Romanesque Gothic Renaissance in the Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, MAK Vienna. This regalia from the period around 1260 is one of the most important and from such an early time only preserved ensemble of ecclesiastical vestments consisting of Chasuble, Cope, dalmatic, tunic and a frontal. At the technical, color and stylistic uniformity of silk embroidery that covers the simple linen at all, the unity of the Ornatteile is easy to recognize. Partial serious changes over the centuries, but also the free form of ornamental decoration make the regalia today seem especially colorful and unusual decorative. Further, took place in 2006 in the Textiles Study Collection of the MAK exhibition transformations of Gosser vestments which newly processed the textile factory from the perspective of various compositional and formal conditions.

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