Teutonic Order Church (Vienna)
The German monastery church in Vienna is a Roman Catholic convent church in court-like German religious house of the Teutonic Order in Vienna - Inner City in the Singerstraße 7th
The church tower from the 13th century has been preserved from the previous church of the Teutonic Order. After several city fires, the nave was rebuilt in stages and consecrated on the 4th Sunday of Advent in 1395 and placed under the patronage of the order's patron saint , St. Elisabeth of Thuringia . The originally rectangular shape of the Gothic nave has a star vault. There were four large windows on the south side of Singerstrasse. In the baroque period , the nave was converted into an oval room. This created galleries in the corners clad with Gothic ornamentation, which are accessed from eight apartments behind.
The portal of the Deutschordenhaus and the connecting passage to the courtyard behind it form the entrance area to the church. On the right, a small staircase leads to the church vestibule, as the level of the nave floor is higher than street level. More than eighty coats of arms are shown on the church walls , so-called swear shields , mostly divided coats of arms with the four heraldic fields of wealthy knights who deposited their coat of arms in the church after they were acclaimed. The winged altar was created in Mechelen in 1520 for the Marienkirche in Gdansk and came to Vienna in 1864. The high altar picture from 1667, painted by Tobias Pock , shows the patrons of the order: Mary enthroned with the baby Jesus and the saints Elisabeth , Georg and Helena . In the course of the liturgical reform in 1986, the substructure of the winged altar was renewed and a celebration altar and an ambo were added. The Cuspinian altar shows the founder Johannes Cuspinian and his two wives Agnes and Anna. There are three grave monuments to Erasmus Graf Starhemberg, Guidobald Graf Starhemberg and Johann Josef Philipp Graf Harrach . After the death of the last Austro-Hungarian monarch Karl I./IV. held on April 8, 1922 the Knights of the Order of the Golden Fleece from a funeral service for him in the Teutonic Order Church.
literature
- Dehio Vienna Inner City 2003 , sacred buildings, Teutonic Order Church, Singerstr. 7, Church of St. Elisabeth, pp. 37 to 40.
- Josef Hubalek, Raphael Beuing: Teutonic Order Church Vienna 1. Information folder on the Teutonic Church, the Teutonic Order House, the Treasury of the Teutonic Order , the central archive and library. Vienna, no year.
Individual evidence
- ^ Elisabeth Kovács: The fall or salvation of the Danube monarchy? Volume 1: The Austrian Question. Emperor and King Charles I (IV.) And the reorganization of Central Europe. Böhlau, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-205-77238-5 , Chapter XXV (online)
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Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 27.2 ″ N , 16 ° 22 ′ 24.9 ″ E