!!!Dominikaner

Dominicans, or Order of Preachers (OP = Ordo fratrum praedicatorum). 
Founded by St. Dominic, sanctioned by the church in 1216, entrusted 
with the execution of the Inquisition in 1232; in the high and late 
Middle Ages it was the most influential of the 4  Mendicant Orders.

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The three main concerns of the Dominicans are study and academic 
education, promotion of spiritual religious life and missionary work. 
The first Austrian community was set up in Friesach in 1217. In 1232 a 
female order of Dominicans developed, leading a contemplative life 
under strict enclosure. The Dominican order, as opposed to the older 
orders, was part of the world of the urban middle-class and played an 
important role in the development of the Gothic style 
("Bettelordenskirchen" = churches of mendicant orders). The oldest 
surviving hall churches in Austria were built by the Dominicans (with 
2 naves 1269 in Imbach in the Kremstal valley and with 3 naves in 
Retz). Under Joseph II all Dominican monasteries were abolished. 
The order was reorganised In the 19%%sup th/%  century. Today's 
communities (Friesach, Vienna, Retz, Graz) were integrated into the 
newly-founded upper German province of Germania superior in 1939.

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Communities of the Dominican nuns exist in Vienna, Salzburg, Friesach, 
Gleisdorf (Styria), Lienz, Altenstadt, Bludenz, Bregenz (Marienberg 
and Thalbach) and Gauenstein in Vorarlberg (Dominican nuns of the 
Third Order).


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