Antonskirche (Vienna)

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The Anton Church in Vienna-Favoriten

The Antonskirche is a Roman Catholic branch church consecrated to St. Anthony of Padua on Antonsplatz in the 10th  Viennese district of Favoriten .

history

At the end of the 19th century there was only one church in Favoriten, the parish church on Keplerplatz , consecrated in 1876 , which was responsible for 100,000 people. This made it necessary to build another church in the district, which at the request of the then Archbishop Anton Josef Gruscha was to be consecrated to Saint Anthony of Padua, Gruscha's namesake. The foundation stone for the church was laid on November 10, 1896 in the presence of Emperor Franz Joseph . Exactly 6 years later, the church was consecrated in 1902, again in the presence of the archbishop and the emperor. The plans came from the architect Franz von Neumann , the execution was carried out by the court architect Josef Schmalzhofer . The history painter August Wörndle provided the equipment , while the organ was built by Johann M. Kauffmann .

During the Second World War, the Antonskirche was badly hit by bombs on November 6th and December 11th, 1944. The dome, the organ gallery, parts of the towers and the nave and the wall paintings were destroyed. Although the reconstruction began immediately after the end of the war, it took until 1961 for the restoration to be completed. It was directed by the architect Anton Steflicek . Because of a lack of money, it was decided at that time to simply paint the interior in white and to do without wall paintings.

In 1962 the church received a new organ, which was built by Dreher and Reinisch as the Karl Josef Walter memorial organ . It has 52 registers on 3 manuals and a pedal . The presbytery was redesigned in 1981 and a popular altar was built. The interior was renovated in 1992.

On November 1st, 2015 the parish was abolished. The church is now a subsidiary of the Divine Mercy parish .

Exterior

Dome of the Anton Church

The Anton Church is a monumental and representative building. It is the largest church building in the 10th district. It is located in the middle of Antonsplatz and is surrounded by a green area. The church can be seen from a further distance through the streets leading to Antonsplatz.

The church is built in a historicizing Romanesque-Byzantine architectural style. Originally, the architect wanted to focus more on St. Mark's Basilica in Venice and create a building with four lower domes and a crossing dome. The high construction costs forced him to save, which meant that only a large crossing dome was built. The external appearance is reminiscent of the great basilica of St. Anthony in Padua. The brick building has a very wide, 25-meter-long facade, which is flanked by two campanile-like bell towers (each 51 meters high). The dominating feature is the 48.5 meter high crossing dome in the center of the building, which carries a 4 meter high blessing statue of Christ by Hans Bernard . Both the choir and the transepts have large apses.

Above the entrance portal is a statue of Saint Anthony of Padua by Heinz Satzinger from 1958 in the upper part of the loggia-like gate. Immediately above the gate there is a statue of Mary by Alois Düll on a tower pillar . The mosaics above were donated in 1907 by Favoritner industrialists. Around the church there are 31 glass mosaic pictures of saints, most of which are related to Vienna or Austria.

Interior

The spacious interior appears very bright and simple, not least because of the white painting. The high altar is designed as a marble altar ciborium (1961). The only wall paintings are now in the choir, where the apse shows the mosaic Christ Pantocrator by Ernst Bauernfeind from 1962 and two large frescoes with scenes from the Old and New Testaments by Hans Alexander Brunner , also in 1962. Owns the pulpit Bronze reliefs by Heinz Satzinger from 1963 on the basket. The zinc crossways reliefs from the original furnishings, based on the architect's designs in 1902, have been preserved. Two statues of the Madonna with Child and Heart of Jesus by Ludwig Schadler also date from around 1900 . A Pietà and a statue of St. John Nepomuk were brought here from the former Schmelzer cemetery . Other figures show Saint Anna Maria teaching to read , Saint Judas Thaddäus , Saint Joseph and Saint Theresa of Lisieux . In the right transept there is the Antonius altar with a statue of the saint by Ferdinand Stuflesser from the construction period. A 6 cm long piece of the rib of St. Anthony is kept here, which was brought to Vienna from Italy by Count Eduard Gaston Pöttickh von Pettenegg , the titular Archbishop of Damiette. It is the largest Antonius relic in Vienna.

The weekday chapel deserves attention, in which a wooden coffered ceiling with gilded rosettes from 1901 and the pictures of Saints Franz Xavier , Bonaventure and George as well as the Holy Family can be seen. They were the only ones who escaped the destruction of the war.

organ

View of the organ

The organ on the north gallery was built by the organ building company Dreher & Reinisch (Salzburg) and completed in 1962. The disposition was designed by Karl Walter. The instrument has a free pipe prospectus . It has 52 registers (approx. 4,000 pipes ) on three manual works and a pedal (cone chest). The actions are electro-pneumatic.

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
Great principal 16 ′
Principal 8th'
Octave 8th'
Wooden flute 8th'
viola 8th'
Octave 4 ′
Put it small 4 ′
Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Super octave 2 ′
Mixture V-VI 2 ′
Mixture IV-V 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Trumpet 16 ′
Trumpet 8th'
Trumpet 4 ′
II breastwork C – g 3
Wooden dacked 8th'
Quintatön 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Forest flute 4 ′
Octave 2 ′
Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Sif flute 1'
Mixture IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Scharff III-IV 1'
Krummhorn 8th'
III Swell C – g 3
Quintatön 16 ′
Ital. Principal 8th'
Drone 8th'
Salizional 8th'
Beat 8th'
Prefix 4 ′
Reed flute 4 ′
Nasard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Night horn 2 ′
third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
Zimbel III 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Mixture IV 1'
Basson 16 ′
Light trumpet 8th'
Schalmay 4 ′
Pedal C – f 1
Pedestal 32 ′
Principal bass 16 ′
Sub bass 16 ′
Subtle bass 16 ′
Quintbass 10 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Octave bass 8th'
Covered bass 8th'
Choral bass 4 ′
recorder 2 ′
Mixture IV 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
trombone 16 ′
Trumpet 8th'
Clairon 4 ′

  • The interior of the Antonskirche

  • Apse mosaic Christ Pantocrator by Ernst Bauernfeind

  • inner space

  • Anthony Altar

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Austrian organ database Karl Schütz. Retrieved December 13, 2011 .
  2. ↑ The new church of St. Anthony of Padua in Vienna. In:  Innsbrucker Nachrichten , November 8, 1898, p. 3 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / ibn
  3. ↑ Information about the organ on the website of the Antonskirche

literature

  • Herbert Tschulk: Viennese district culture guide favorites . Jugend & Volk, Vienna 1985
  • Felix Czeike (Ed.): Antonkirche. In:  Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 1, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-218-00543-4 , pp. 125-126 ( digitized version ).
  • Dehio Handbook Vienna. X. to XIX. and XXI. to XXIII. District . Anton Schroll, Vienna 1996
  • Matthias Eisterer : New Parish Church of St. Anton v. Padua in Vienna, X., Favoriten , self-published by the author, Vienna, 1901

Web links

Commons : Antonskirche  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 48 ° 10 ′ 16 ″  N , 16 ° 22 ′ 40 ″  E