All Saints Church (Vienna)

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All Saints Church
Intermediate bridges 1843

The Allerheiligenkirche Zwischenbrücken is a Roman Catholic parish church in the 20th district of Vienna , Brigittenau , at Vorgartenstraße 56 and is a listed building .

history

The once unregulated Danube near Vienna formed new islands after each flood, then called Schüttel or Anschütt. (In the 2nd district there is a Schüttelstrasse on the Danube Canal.) One of these islands was named Zwischenbrücken because it was located between the two large Danube bridges from Vienna to Leopoldau (today in the 21st district). The residents were guards of a military fortification, toll officials, workers from Donaumühlen and servants of the two large inns for carters and their wagons.

Since the road to the responsible parish church in Leopoldau was too long and difficult for the toll officials to attend a mass, they made it so far with ideas that they were allowed to build a chapel in 1769. Emperor widow and sovereign Maria Theresa made a letter of donation with 2000 guilders in the kk Kupferamt for the chapel on November 26th, 1778, with which the Johannes Nepomuk chapel was built and the Sunday and public holiday masses were maintained. On the occasion of the founding of the Floridsdorf parish church , Zwischenbrücken was parished there, so that Klosterneuburg Monastery, as the patron saint of Floridsdorf, became the administrator of the Maria Theresian Foundation. In the course of the Viennese regulation of the Danube from 1870, the intermediate bridges were demolished, along with the chapel. The owners were compensated, whereby the Klosterneuburg monastery supported the construction of the Donaufelder church with this compensation . The cut tongue of John of Nepomuk in the coat of arms of Zwischenbrücken, now part of Brigittenau, reminds of the chapel .

In the summer of 1905, an All Saints Church ( emergency church ) was built in the southern corner of the All Saints Park as a branch church of the Brigittakirche and consecrated on November 26, 1905. Because the available money was scarce, this church, which was designed by Hans Schneider (1860–1921), was kept simple. It was single-aisled and had an open roof, the church interior measured 40 by 20 meters and had a tower leaning against the side. An altarpiece by Joachim von Sandrart was given to the church from the former high altar in the Schottenstift . The church was completely destroyed by bombs on February 7, 1945 during World War II. The rectory building, which is also listed, is located at the address Allerheiligenplatz 5 .

After the war it was decided to keep Allerheiligenplatz free. From 1949 to 1950, the new church at Vorgartenstraße 56 in the block immediately south of Allerheiligenplatz was built according to plans by Josef Vytiska .

On September 1, 2017, the intermediate bridges parish was expanded to include the parishes of the Divine Redeemer and Mother of God in Augarten and renamed to All Saints .

All Saints Church between bridges

The church is located in the street with a central main entrance into a six-axis hall church, with the steeple above the main entrance. The chorus is elevated. The ceiling stucco with Christian symbols comes from the plasterers Karl Jamböck and Leopold Kiener. To the left and right of the church, the property in the street was bricked up and kept open with four open arched gates.

The tabernacle dates from 1930, the Pietà altar with the wooden relief Passion from 1931. From 1959 to 1960 the organ was created by Rudolf Novak. A crucifix hangs on the choir wall and behind it a tapestry with evangelist symbols and depictions of creation and the crucifixion by the artist Franz Burkert from 1982 and 1983.

On March 19, 1950, the church was consecrated by Cardinal Theodor Innitzer . On November 29, 1956, Cardinal Franz König consecrated the three new bells.

literature

  • Franz Kaiser: Brigittenau , Jugend und Volk Verlag, Vienna 1975.
  • Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria: Vienna. II. To IX. and XX. District, XX. Brigittenau district, All Saints Church. Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1993, p. 440, ISBN 3-7031-0680-8 .
  • Markus Bittner: From the village church to the big city parish , Chronicle of the Floridsdorf Parish Church , Lower Austrian Press House, Sankt Pölten 2001, on the history of the Johannes Nepomuk Chapel, p. 28f.
  • Andreas Gialuris, Peter Koller, Fritz Koren, Alfred Kruspel, Eduard Mitsche, Kurt Müller, Johann Niedermayer, Hildegard Riedler, Roland Schink: Festschrift 100 Years Parish All Saints - Zwischenbrücken , 2006.

Web links

Commons : Allerheiligenkirche Zwischenbrücken  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Vienna - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. ( Memento from May 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) . Federal Monuments Office , as of June 27, 2014 (PDF).
  2. ^ All Saints Church in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
  3. ↑ Location: General city plan 1912 .
  4. ↑ Hans Schneider. In: Architects Lexicon Vienna 1770–1945. Published by the Architekturzentrum Wien . Vienna 2007.
  5. ↑ Diocesan Gazette of the Archdiocese of Vienna, August 2017

Remarks

  1. ↑ According to the general city plan with drawn war damage - "bomb plan" , with which the war damage to buildings apparently collected by the Vienna City Planning Office around 1946 , the church was neither hit by a bomb nor any damage. - See: digital map sheet, right margin above .

Coordinates: 48 ° 14 '12.9 "  N , 16 ° 23' 10.1"  E