Mauerbach Charterhouse
The Charterhouse Wall Bach is a former Carthusian monastery and is located in the market town wall creek near Vienna. The baroque Charterhouse is one of the most important of its kind in Austria. The cloister of the monastery is one of the longest in Europe.
The monastery is currently being refurbished under the supervision of the Austrian Federal Monument Office.
History
The Charterhouse Wall Bach was donated in 1314 by Frederick the Fair. 1342 the Charterhouse Prague was most likely colonized by monks from wall Bach. In the late Middle Ages, the monastery suffered repeated looting, roughly in the time from 1483 to 1486 and then in 1529 the Turkish invasion a real havoc with seven dead. By 1550, only four survived monks in the monastery. Sub-Prior, George Fasel (1616-1631), the Cardinal Khlesl had called from the Charterhouse Prüll in Regensburg, began a phase of renewal for the monastery. The intense construction activity brought the imperial wing among others. In the 18th century, the monastery was healthy in disciplinary and financial terms, but was closed in 1782 as part of the Josephine suspensions. In the years 1945-1961 there was a homeless shelter; Since 1984, it serves as a restoration workshop and training center for the Austrian monuments.
Building and decorative stones in the Carthusian Wall Bach
In this construction were used as building and decorative stones: Flyschsandstein ( historical name Vienna sandstone grinding stone) as rubble stone, brick, blocks, Gewändesteine of doors and windows, floor tiles, architectural, water troughs. Zogelsdorfer stone sculptures, and window and door jambs. Leithakalk from Kaisersteinbruch, Kaiserstein for Fenstersohlbänke, door jambs and thresholds chance of scoring walls, wheel deflector, columns in the imperial garden, the fountain basin in the Prelates and Stieg levels, but especially senior portals, as the outer entrance of Porta Prima and architectural elements of the Eagle Gate and the little emperors Portales. Limestone from the quarries of Au, Loretto and Stotzing the Leitha Mountains for Gothic cross-ribbed, keystones, capitals at the Eagle Portal. Solnhofen limestone for floor tiles in the cloister. Colorful limestones ( marbles ) for representative portals.
In 1782, the Charterhouse of Emperor Joseph II was abolished in 1784 and used as a supply house of the City of Vienna for elderly and terminally ill. 1944-45 served the city as emergency hospital. Thereafter, the Charterhouse was fully exposed to erosion, and hostel for the homeless (until 31 December 1960).
Rehabilitation by the Federal Monuments Office
In 1984, the sensitive restoration by the Federal Monuments Office that there ever since their restoration workshops Baudenkmalpflege (originally Department of historical craft technique ) maintains .. For decades, the Charterhouse Depot was for a collection of Nazi-looted art, which was classified as " unclaimed " Kunstgut by the State Austria.
Gallery
Adlertor
Courtyard fountain
Small Kaisertor
Anteroom
Stairs
High altar
Christ - Garden