The Franciscan Telfs /LINK/ located in the center of the municipality in the district Innsbruck country Telfs in Tirol in Austria. The town lies 27 km west of Innsbruck in a basin-like expansion of the Inn Valley at the foot of the Hohe Munde peak.
Franziskanerkloster Telfs
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The Franciscan monastery was at the beginning of the 18th Century at the instigation of Francis Upper Perger, the pastor of Telfs, and the noble families and Schölling Sterzinger founded. This came in December 1701, the first Franciscans (OFM) to Telfs and initially received a portion of the court house to house. 1701 with the construction of the monastery and in 1704 started with the associated church. Although in 1705 the consecration of the Church (patron saint: Immaculata, 8 December) took place and were able to move the Franciscans in their monastery, it took several years to complete.
Franziskanerkloster Telfs in Winter
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The Franciscans were dedicated to the 17th and 18 Century of pastoral care in Telfs and in the Tyrolean Inn valley. They were estimated as a preacher, confessor and priest collection and contributed to the spread of the Cross devotions. Through the Church's repression of Emperor Joseph II and the Bavarian Tyrol control over the number of Franciscans in Telfs fell to 6 in 1820.
Franziskanerkloster Telfs und Stubaier Alpen
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In the 19th Century recovered the Convention and could again freely pursue the pastoral. In addition, some reconstruction work on the monastery and church were addressed. 1824 was built on the east side of the monastery wall, a garden shed, the Leopold Puelacher embellished with paintings from the life of St. Francis.
Franziskanerkloster Telfs formerly. From a publication of the Benedictine communities.
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From 1867 to 1871 the church was renovated in stages, and its present form. Finally, it was the 200 th anniversary in 1904 by Josef Pfefferle put on the church facade is a mosaic of the Immaculate Conception, that's still the church to an eye-catcher.
Franziskanerkloster Telfs
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From 1927, the monastery housed the novitiate of the Franciscan province of Tyrol, but it had to be closed in 1940 due to the National Socialist regime. In February 1941, the majority of the monastery was confiscated by the Wehrmacht and later civilians quartered. According to their statement in 1960, the Franciscan monastery taught in the seminar "Engelbertinum" one that allowed up to 1990 so-called late appointees way to study theology or religious life. Similarly Telfs was from 1961 1976 Noviziatskloster again. From 1987 to 1989, the church was restored and renovated from 2002 to 2004 the monastery.
Franziskanerkloster Telfs. Relics of St. Aurelia early Christian martyrs. Details of skeleton. From a publication of the Benedictine communities.
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Franziskanerkloster Telfs
Franziskanerkloster Telfs in Winter
Franziskanerkloster Telfs und Stubaier Alpen
In the 19th Century recovered the Convention and could again freely pursue the pastoral. In addition, some reconstruction work on the monastery and church were addressed. 1824 was built on the east side of the monastery wall, a garden shed, the Leopold Puelacher embellished with paintings from the life of St. Francis.
Franziskanerkloster Telfs formerly. From a publication of the Benedictine communities.
Franziskanerkloster Telfs
Franziskanerkloster Telfs. Relics of St. Aurelia early Christian martyrs. Details of skeleton. From a publication of the Benedictine communities.
Today, the Franciscan monastery in Telfs a house of spiritual retreat for religious and lay people. Similarly, there is also the postulate of the Franciscans, a first phase of living together in the convent and getting to know the religious life, housed. Source:. Wikipedia
All images, except where indicated: Elisabeth Fazel and Wojciech Gatz.