Gaming Charterhouse

Geschichte

Gaming Charterhouse is a former Carthusian monastery in Gaming near Scheibbs in the Mostviertel of Lower Austria.The monastery was founded in 1330 by Albert II, Duke of Austria, who intended it as a dynastic burial place. He himself was buried there after his death in 1358, as was his wife Joanna of Pfirt and daughter-in-law Elisabeth of Bohemia . The first community, from Mauerbach Charterhouse in Vienna, comprised a double complement, under a prior, of 24 monks rather than the usual 12, and the scale of the buildings from the beginning reflected the monastery's size.Gaming Charterhouse received extremely generous endowments from its founder, including much surrounding land in the valley of the Erlauf, and the town and market of Scheibbs.It was dissolved in 1782 in the reforms of Emperor Joseph II. In 1797 the bodies of the founder, his wife and daughter-in-law were removed to the parish church of Gaming, and in 1825 the monastery and estate, including large areas of forest, passed into private ownership. In 1915 it was bought by the abbot of Melk Abbey.

"Das Hotel und Restaurant Kartause Gaming zeichnet sich durch das einzigartige Flair der ehemaligen Klosteranlage aus.Mit der Gründung der Kartause Gaming löste Albrecht II. ein Gelübde ein, das er gemeinsam mit seinem Bruder Leopold „in Kampfbereitschaft zur Schlacht gegen Ludwig den Bayern“, also offenkundig 1322 unmittelbar vor der Entscheidungsschlacht bei Mühldorf abgelegt hatte. Der „so gemütvollen Auffassung“, dass der Beweggrund für das Gelübde der beiden Brüder die Befreiung Friedrich des Schönen aus seiner schon kurz erwähnten Gefangenschaft auf Trausnitz gewesen sei, hat Josef Lampel schon vor bald hundert Jahren die Grundlage entzogen. Dennoch wird die rührende Legende weiterhin unkritisch tradiert..."