Christ Church Vienna
The Christ Church Vienna (also: Anglican Church ) is an Anglican church in Jaurèsgasse 17-19 in Vienna's 3rd district, Landstraße , near Rennweg. It was built in neo-Gothic style according to plans by Viktor Rumpelmayer as an embassy church on the property of the British embassy in Vienna and inaugurated on June 11, 1887.
The community
The Christchurch Vienna , at the same time for the communities in Klagenfurt , Ljubljana (Slovenia), Zagreb (Croatia) and Bratislava is responsible (Slovakia), characterized by a cross-generational, multi-ethnic composition, is open to the Anglicans from around the world. She belongs to the Diocese in Europe of the Church of England .
The current Chaplain is Venerable Patrick Curran, who also holds the office of Episcopal Vicar (Archdeacon) of the Eastern Archdeaconry within the Diocese in Europe of the Church of England . He is assisted by Reverend Mike Waltner. The church has a second-hand shop (Christ Church Shop) at Salesianergasse 20.
The inside of the church
The marble relief in the middle of the south wall is reminiscent of Queen Victoria . It was made after her death in 1901 and is an early work by Anton Hanak , who is known, among other things, for his sculptures on the facades of municipal housing in Vienna from the 1920s.
Today's organ comes from the organ builder Létourneau from Québec and replaced the original organ from 1897. The new organ was installed in 1987 after the parish had raised the sum of 2 million schillings . It has 10 stops on two manuals and a pedal .
The east window
The original stained glass windows were destroyed towards the end of the Second World War. Among them was the east window, created in 1897 in honor of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee and showing Christ as the Good Shepherd. The current east window was designed by Frederick W. Cole , who served as Captain of the Royal Engineers during the war and was also a member of the Royal Society of Arts and the British Society of Master Glass Painters . In addition, he was chief designer for the well-known Westminster glass window company William Morris and Co. , which also made the windows.
literature
- Barbara Brash: By His Grace: The History and Life of Christ Church Vienna 1887-1977 1978.
- Lucian O. Meysels: The Christ Church Connection . Illustrierte Neue Welt, Number 6/8, June / July 2007.
- Frank GC Sauer: Spiritual home and ecumenical openness. Motives for binding in the Anglican parish of Vienna, in: A. Gaderer u. a. (Ed.), Doesn't matter? Theological reflections on indifference. Freiburg i. Br. 2015. pp. 211-232.
Web links
Old Catholic churches: Hospital chapel of the former Mautner Markhof children's hospital
Anglican Churches: Anglican Church (Jaurèsgasse)
Evangelical churches: Evangelical Pauluskirche (Sebastianplatz) | Evangelical Korean Church (Schützengasse)
Roman Catholic Churches and chapels: Arsenal (Maria-vom-Siege-Kirche) | Elisabethinenkirche (Landstrasse) | Erdberg (St. Peter and Paul Church) | Church of the Redeemer of the Comforters of Gethsemane | Guard Church | Herz-Jesu-Kirche (Landstrasse) | Januarius Chapel | Jacquingasse (Mother of God Church) | Landstraße (St. Rochus and Sebastian Church) | Neuerdberg (Don Bosco Church) | Rennweg (Church of the Birth of the Virgin Mary) | Weißgerber (Othmarkirche) | Sacré Cœur Church | Salesian Church
Oriental churches: Armenian Church (Kolonitzgasse)
Orthodox churches: Russian Orthodox Cathedral (Jaurèsgasse) | Serbian Orthodox Church (Veithgasse)
Disused religious buildings: Association synagogue (Untere Viaduktgasse) | Nikolaikirche (Rochusmarkt)
Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 50.2 " N , 16 ° 22 ′ 55.2" E