Rodaun mountain church

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Rodaun mountain church
Sculpture of St. Barbara on the roof next to the tower

The Bergkirche Rodaun is a baroque Roman Catholic church in the Rodaun district in the 23rd district of Liesing in Vienna . It lies at 267  m above sea level. A. on a hill above the Liesingbach valley and is dedicated to St. John the Baptist .

history

In 1683 the old Rodauner church was destroyed during the Second Turkish Siege of Vienna and soon afterwards rebuilt in a modest form. In its place, today's mountain church was built between 1739 and 1745 and consecrated on June 23, 1745. The founder of the church was the then owner of the Rodaun estate, Eleonore von Sauberskirchen, widowed Rödderstahl. Through the foundation she fulfilled a will of her mother. The church is the work of the Viennese master builder Johann Enzenhofer . The baroque central building in the immediate vicinity of Rodaun Castle has a 35 meter high church tower. In 1783 Rodaun became an independent parish in the course of the Josephine reforms - before Rodaun was administered by the parish in Perchtoldsdorf to the south . In 1905 the porch was built according to a design by architect Richard Merz and the tower facade and tower structure were changed.

The Bergkirche survived the air raids on Vienna in World War II unscathed. In 1954 the current parish church of Rodaun was consecrated, which in 1964 replaced the mountain church as the parish church of Rodaun.

Artistic arrangement

The coat of arms cartouche above the porch shows the coat of arms of the lord of the castle Philipp Ritter von Rödderstahl († 1736). The two large stone figures on the roof next to the tower set represent Saint Catherine (left) and Saint Barbara (right).

Interior of the Rodaun mountain church

The baroque furnishings have largely been preserved. The picture on the high altar with the representation of the baptism of Jesus and the two side altar pictures with the Holy Family and with Joachim , Anna and Maria were created by the South Tyrolean painter Michelangelo Unterberger .

organ

View of the organ

The organ with its neo-baroque case was built in 1905/1906 by the organ builder Johann M. Kauffmann from Vienna. The cone chest instrument has twelve stops on two manuals and a pedal . The game actions are mechanical, the stop actions pneumatic.

I main work C – f 3
1. Bourdon 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Viola di gamba 8th'
4th Octav 4 ′
5. Mixture III 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
II breastwork C – f 3
6th Violin Principal 8th'
7th Lovely covered 8th'
8th. Aeoline 8th'
9. Gemshorn 4 ′
Pedals C – f 1
10. Sub bass 16 ′
11. Violoncello 8th'
12. Octavbass 8th'
  • Coupling: II / I, I / P, II / P
  • Playing aids: collective kicks (p, f, tutti), trigger

literature

  • Ferdinand Opll: Liesing: History of the 23rd Viennese district and its old places . Jugend und Volk, Vienna 1982, ISBN 3-7141-6217-8
  • Hildegunde Suete-Willer: The mountain church of Vienna-Rodaun: A documentation . Self-published by H. Suete-Willer, Vienna 1995

Web links

Commons : Bergkirche Rodaun  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bergkirche in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
  2. ↑ a b Wien.at: Bergkirche Rodaun ; accessed on Aug. 27, 2016
  3. ↑ Information on the organ

Coordinates: 48 ° 7 ′ 57.6 ″  N , 16 ° 15 ′ 22.6 ″  E