Viktring Abbey

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Kostanjevica monastery ( German: Kloster Landstrass ) ( 1234)

The pin Viktring was a Cistercian monastery ( OCist ) and is now with the Collegiate Church and the St. Florian's in stone a Roman Catholic parish in the 13th district of Klagenfurt in Carinthia Viktring.

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  • 3.2 Literature

History

Pin Viktring was founded in 1142 by monks of the Cistercian Order of the monastery of Villers- Bettnach; this was made possible by a generous donation of Count Bernhard of Spanheim and his wife Gwendolyn. The name of the foundation is derived from either of Victoria ( victory ) or the place name Vitrin.

On April 20, 1142 Easter Monday, the selected for Viktring monk colony broke up from her cloister Weiler- Betnach. The following year was employed on May 13 Eberhard was the first abbot of the monastery. After 60 years, Archbishop Eberhard II 1202 could consecrate the monastery church. Around 1220 bought the monastery Viktring in Marburg an der Drau a house; the purchases multiplied, so that Viktring monastery became one of the largest urban landowners. 1488 belonged to the monastery of 28 houses in the town and vineyards in Lower Styria.

In the course of Joseph's Convent closures Viktring was lifted on 19 May 1786 and expelled the monks on August 1.

On November 10, 1788, the brothers Johann and Christoph Moro auctioned a part of the monastic property, and there established a cloth factory. From 1897 the entire pin the Moro family belonged. 1925 Adeline sold by Botka, the last member of the Moro family, the cloth factory " Moro brothers " to Baron Josef Aichelburg - Zosenegg. It was followed by several short-term, industrial use of the pen until it came into the possession of the Republic of Austria in 1970. Inside the buildings, a school was established in 1977; a Expositur the second grammar school Klagenfurt involved the premises. 1980 Viktring has been called " secondary school, with special focus on arts education " on their own. On 23 September 1999, the official opening of the school BRG Klagenfurt- Viktring took place.

Today, the abbey church and the former prelate in possession of the parish pin Viktring are.

Äbteverzeichnis of the Cistercian monastery Viktring

It's called from 1143 until the closure of the branch in 1786 a total of 50 fathers of the monks. For the Middle Ages it has compiled Magda Roscher. In the early days of the monastery they held this function by the low life expectancy often only a few years.

  • Eberhard 1143 - 1157 he was responsible for the small, probably from 13 persons existing monastic community through 14 years old.. His installation took place a year after the occupation of Viktring. Eberhard appears in documents repeatedly as a witness.
  • Gottfried 1157 - 1163rd in documents undetectable.
  • Konrad I. 1163 - 1170th in documents undetectable.
  • Meinhard 1171 - 1175 (died 1183 )
  • Ludwig 1175 - 1191
  • Berthold 1192 - 1194
  • Baldwin 1194 - 1200
  • Conrad II 1202 - 1211
  • Henry I 1213 - 1215
  • Nicholas I 1215 - 1217
  • Conrad III. 1217 - 1224
  • Thomas 1224 - 1226
  • John I. His name only appears in a charter of 1235th
  • Arnold 1236 - 1238 (died 1244)
  • Herbrand 1239 - 1246 (withdrawal). Sirbt 1252.
  • Henry II 1247 - 1249
  • Friedrich 1251 - 1256
  • James I, 1257 - 1260
  • Giles 1260 - 1270
  • Albert I 1270 - 1280
  • James II 1280 - 1281
  • Albert II 1286 - 1290
  • Nicholas II 1293 - 1303
  • Simon 1303 - 1309
  • John II 1312 - 1345th He was a monk since 1307 proven in the monastery. In December 1312 he uncertificated already as abbot of the monastery, he was 33 years, 8 months and 26 days before long. In Klagenfurt, the monastery already owns several houses.
  • Nicholas III. 1347 - 1390th He is only detectable from 1347 Dept. He presides over the monastery for over four decades, he 'd have to be in a relatively early age reaches the Abtwürde.
  • Johann III. 1391 - 1413
  • Andreas 1413 - 1423
  • John IV 1423 - 1425 documented undetectable..
  • Christian 1425 - 1428
  • John V 1429 - 1448
  • Gerhard II 1448 - 1467th His grave stone figure in the Bernhard chapel is preserved.
  • Matthew I. 1467 - 1481
  • John VI. 1482 - 1,501th He leaves in 1488 transferred the entire monastic property on the basis of an older Urbars in a new one. More than 50 Huben could no longer be elicited. Still not return peace is a, a visitation chases the other, there is a second abbot, but eventually Abbot Johann able but to claim. Probably he resigned in favor of long.
  • Matthew Lang of Wellenburg 1502 - 1523 / 24th The rivalry led to the establishment of a foreign orden imperial favoritism in Viktring. Lang brings the economy back on track.
  • Polydor de Bressani 1525 - 1534
  • Sebastian Schenk 1534 - 1544
  • Bernhard Taindl 1544 - 1570
  • Philipp Dominik 1562 - 1598
  • George I Gorian 1598 - 1608
  • George II Reinprecht 1608 - 1643 For the first time a Viktringer Abt councilor of the Carinthian Landtag. . 1608 comes to a sale of the entire property in Carniola.
  • George III. Ding 1643 - 1645
  • Bernhard II Grieser 1645 - 1649
  • Luke Blatnik 1649 - 1652
  • William Malle 1657 - 1691
  • Benedict I. Türk 1691 - 1,701th His grave stone is located in the baptistery, embedded in the ground.
  • John VII Moser 1702-1717.
  • Edmund Kamperger 1717 - 1720
  • Benedict II Mulz 1720 - 1763rd Starts the extensive construction of the monastery objects. There shall be established so-called Imperial Apartments for highest attendance. In Klagenfurt it comes to the construction of the Viktringer court in the Karfreitstraße first occasion of Hereditary Homage Emperor Charles VI. Viktringer the abbot was honored with the dignity of a Erblandhofkaplans.
  • Siegmund Zopoth 1763 - 1764

The monastery managed about 20 fish ponds. The Fishing out brought high yields. In a period of three years, there were 517 in the monastery moat carp, pike 78 and 32 Waller, in 1030 Wintschacher pond carp, pike and 212 46 Waller and Steiner in the large pond in 1569 carp, pike and 170 80 Waller.

  • Bernhard III. Maria Winterl 1764 - 1780
  • Konstantin Rabitsch 1781 - 1786th The last Dept. The dairy farm at that time consisted in Viktring 64 Joch of arable land, 123 yoke of meadows and pastures, forests and several Maierniggalm. The livestock consisted of 7 horses, 59 cattle, 64 pigs, 36 sheep and poultry ( including ducks ).

North West View of the Collegiate Church

Wintry church with a frozen pond pin

The cloth and manufacturer Loden

In November 1788 the brothers Christoph and Johann Moro bought at a public auction a part of the building complex and several pieces of land for 10,000 guilders.

The factory was a major employer for the population. It employed up to 800 people. In the second generation, Franz Ritter von Moro ran the family business and made ​​him a leading European fine cloth factory.

1880 the factory employed 86 workers. Mid-1880s, they could provide red flag for the London Guard. 1885, a company health insurance costs has been set up with the participation of the workers. After 1910, sales started to drop, with the mobilization in 1914 was the production almost to a standstill. And during the war years from 1916 dried up the wool allocation, because the factory was not a military supplier. The factory was sold in the postwar years, Dr. Ludwig Goll and Baron Robert Klinger of Klingerstorff establishing a leather factory, but these had to close in 1923, the building was converted into small apartments.

1946 Viktring was released by the British occupation forces. Owner was at this time the family Dreihann - Holenia. Ermengarde Aichelburg - Zossenegg 1932 had taken a Baron Dreihann - Holenia to man. The operation never recovered and had to be sold in 1956. The new owners invested large sums of money, built a new factory and paved to foreign transactions, but for Viktring the clock had expired. 1967 had to be declared bankrupt. It should come to Zwangsversteigung, but the sequence of events was then another. The province of Carinthia was willing to interpret 6.1 million shillings for Viktring, the Hermagoras Club increased the offer to 7 million, to train finally came up with 7.1 million the Republic of Austria. This was the Cistercian monument from the headlines.

The Viktringer owned by the Prince of Liechtenstein was devolved in 1963 for Aloisia Miller Aich wood.

Viktring as a school

1976, a grammar school ( BRG ) was transferred with a special focus on arts education to Viktring. Today, 32 classes are housed with 100 teachers and 900 students there. In connection with the school's music Viktring -Klagenfurt was initiated with its annual events.

Pictures

Arcade

Marienbrunnen Marienhof

Source directory

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