Albertus Magnus School Vienna
The Albertus Magnus School is a Catholic private school with public rights in the 18th district of Währing in Vienna . The Society of Mary's school center is a listed building .
history
The building was built in 1893/1894 according to the plans of the architect Johann Nepomuk Scheiringer . The interior of the building was redesigned in 1953/1954.
The Austrian resistance fighter Chaplain Heinrich Maier worked as a religion teacher at the school until 1938.
architecture
The building has a grooved, romanticizing facade with side gable risalits . On the left in the facade is a mural Maria floating above the school from the 1950s. The portal gable bears an angel tondo. The representative staircase has a two-pillar staircase.
The chapel on the third floor is from the construction period and has a two-arched entrance with an angel gondola and doors with rich wrought iron fittings. The rectangular chapel room facing east has a high, open roof structure with original roof beams. The furnishings of the chapel are from 1953/1954: The altar mosaic Mary crowned by angels with a globe with baby Jesus standing on the globe and the mosaics of the Way of the Cross were created by Hermann Bauch . The eastern arched windows with the depiction of Saints Leopold and Albertus Magnus were created by the Tyrolean glass painting establishment . The round window Agnus Dei in the west wall was built in 1893/1894 during the construction period.
The neo-Gothic organ case was built around 1900.
school
The school authority is the association of religious schools in Austria. The school center includes an elementary school, a new middle school, a grammar school and a secondary school.
Director of the high school
- 1977 - 1995 Michael Wurz
- 1995 - 2006 Herwig Schlögl
- 2006 - 2020 Christian Köhler (holder of the Kalksburg Cross of Honor since 2002)
- since 2020 Herwig Födermayr
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Vienna suburbs 1996 . XVIII. District, Semperstrasse (Währing), No. 45, Albertus Magnus School of the Mariae Society, p. 507.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 13 ′ 43.8 ″ N , 16 ° 20 ′ 55.9 ″ E