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The Charterhouse of Mauerbach

The former Carthusian monastery of Mauerbach near Vienna is the oldest of this order in Austria. As a sovereign's founding in 1313 by the Habsburg Friedrich founded the Fair, it was 1782 as the first monastery Reform of the Church under Emperor Joseph II of the same sex to the victim. Unlike the two younger Kartausen in Gaming (1330 - 1782) and Aggsbach (1380 - 1782) was from the medieval monastery in Mauerbach received not a single building in its entirety, apart from the approximately centrally located in the large cloister garden cemetery chapel . Even this 1409 chapel was built in the 19th Schauer'sche Century changed rigorously.

From the history of the monastery, the destruction by fire and looting of 1529 (first Turkish siege), and especially through the whole of Vienna and Lower Austria, badly affected by earthquake-withdrawing Neulengbach in 1590 announced that extensive renovation and remodeling of the entire medieval monastery required. taken a few years after the partial temporary repair of the monastery and the church Neuweiher (1607 forgat by Bishop of Nitra) was from 1616 under the Prior George Fasel the architectural redesign of the Charterhouse in attack. This building, which still determines the sovereign designed facility marks a distinct break between the medieval and early-Baroque monastery complex. From the late medieval buildings to the Gothic church were a few walls from floor level in preserved, while most of the other monastic buildings now only by archaeological excavations can be developed.

[more ... The medieval and early-Baroque monastery of Mauerbach from the historical point of view

Featuring:

• Introduction
• On the Method of Building Research
• About the architecture of the Carthusians in the Middle Ages
• The church of the 14th Century
• The medieval monastery tracts east of the church
• The medieval monastery tracts west of the church
• -medieval Modifications until after the earthquake of 1590
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