Baumgartner parish church

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Baumgartner parish church
Interior of the Baumgartner parish church

The Baumgartner parish church is a Roman Catholic parish church in the 14th district of Penzing in  Vienna . It is consecrated to St. Anna . Since July 1, 2019, Baumgarten and Oberbaumgarten have belonged to the parish "Holy Mother Teresa". St. Anne's Church is the parish church of this parish.

Location and architecture

The Baumgartner parish church is located on Gruschaplatz on Linzer Straße in the Baumgarten district . The building, erected at the beginning of the 20th century, which combines elements of neo-Romanesque and the Heimat style, is the work of the architect Moritz Otto Kuntschik . The basilica has two octagonal twin towers standing closely together on the main facade in the north. A portico in the form of a triumphal arch is in front of the main portal . A low choir adjoins the nave in the south .

In the apse , St. Anne and other saints as well as the architect and supporter of the church are depicted. These wall paintings were created in 1908 by Hans Zatzka . Among them are six medallions by Karl Pellmann from 1950, on which the Austria-related saints Hemma von Gurk , Klemens Maria Hofbauer , Leopold of Austria , Petrus Canisius , Rupert von Salzburg and Severin von Noricum are depicted. The stained glass in the church, created in 1908, is the work of Carl Geyling's heirs and the art glass maker Rudolf Leutgeb .

Most of the furnishings in the Baumgartner parish church date from the construction period. A crucifix was created by the South Tyrolean sculptor Ferdinand Stuflesser . In the Marienkapelle there is a copy of the miraculous image of Mariahilf made in the 18th century on the wall altar . Like a Gothic high relief with the motif Anna selbdritt , which is attributed to the Viennese stonemason Michel Tichter , and the former high altar painting in the transept, created around 1700 with the motif Anna showing Maria the way , comes from the old Baumgartner parish church. In the right aisle there is a late Gothic epitaph . Above the vestibule is the organ gallery with an organ from Rieger Orgelbau from 1977, which has 28 registers on two manuals and a pedal .

history

In Unterbaumgarten there was a late Gothic branch church consecrated to St. Anne , which was destroyed during the First and Second Turkish sieges of Vienna and restored and expanded in 1753 and 1755. In 1784 this church was elevated to a parish church as part of the Josephine reforms.

On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the reign of Emperor Franz Joseph I in 1898, the St. Anna church building association was set up and aimed at a new building. Today's Baumgartner parish church was finally built between 1906 and 1908 and the old parish church was demolished in 1908. In 1925 the church was restored. An interior restoration took place again in 1948, an exterior restoration from 1956 to 1960. In 2003 the roof tiles were replaced and seat heating was installed inside the church.

literature

  • Martin Molecz: Baumgarten an der Wien, a history of the parish in the context of local history . Dissertation, University of Vienna 1982

Web links

Commons : Baumgartner Pfarrkirche  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.): Dehio-Handbuch. The art monuments of Austria. Vienna. X. to XIX. and XXI. to XXIII district. Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-7031-0693-X , pp. 268-270

Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 41.5 ″  N , 16 ° 16 ′ 59.2 ″  E