About 600 m southwest of the hill of Rieder's located in the Klostertal called a ruined Gothic church nave. Since the mid-19th Century. is it with the Turks destroyed in 1529 by the Franciscan Observantenkloster S. Maria Paradyso brought "together. is
The fate of the monastery in a Chronik des Franziskanerordens aus dem Jahre 1740 berichtet, daß das Kloster auf Veranlassung von Johannes Kapistran durch den späteren Generalvikar der österr. Ordensprovinz, Gabriel von Verona, als Ausbildungsstätte und Studieranstalt für den in Österreich neu entstandenen Franziskanerorden der strengen Observanz gegründet wurde. Für die Platzwahl abseits der großen Siedlungen war die weltferne Abgeschiedenheit des Ortes ausschlaggebend, der Gabriel von Verona von frühen Reisen her bekannt war.
Das Franziskaner-Observanten-Kloster bei Ried am Riederberg wurde um 1455 anstelle einer älteren, wohl aus dem 14. Jhdt. stammenden Laurentius-Kapelle errichtet und diente als Ausbildungsstätte der durch Kapistran launched by Austrian Province. In a first phase to the fire in 1509 is likely to have used the old chapel as a monastery church. Then you restored the system and changing it, especially in the western part of the church. From the same period another large building is above the church, probably an economic tract near the monastery Bründl. After the destruction of the monastery by the Turks in 1529 is expected at the site continue to have passed a small chapel of St. Lawrence, which in the 19th Century. had already fallen into oblivion. At this time began the surrounding population, the church ruins be plotted as a quarry until the 20th Century. was placed under protection.
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of Contents: Introduction
- The history of the monastery of S. Maria Paradyso "
- St. Lawrence as the predecessor of the Franciscan monastery
- The monastery ruins after 1529
- description of the abbey ruins
- The art history of the monastery
- Zusammenfassung
- Literaturverzeichnis
