Elisabethinenkirche (Vienna)

Elizabethine Church

inside view

The Elisabethinenkirche hl. Elisabeth is a monastery church at the St. Elisabeth monastery and hospital in the 3rd district of Vienna, Landstrasse, at Landstraßer Hauptstrasse 4a.

In 1710, as part of a renovation of the Bartolott houses with a donation from the imperial family, a small wooden church was built and consecrated in 1711. In 1718 a hospital was built according to the plans of the master builder Franz Jänggl. After being destroyed by a flood in 1741, the monastery was rebuilt and the church was rebuilt by the architect Franz Anton Pilgram in 1743 . The main donor was now the Prince Primate of Hungary, Archbishop Emmerich Esterházy . The church was largely completed in 1748. The consecration took place in 1749, in the same year the pharmacy was opened as a foundation of the Empress Maria Theresa.

Hospital chapel

In the hospital wing, built by the master builder Josef Eyselt from 1834 to 1836, there is a rectangular barrel-vaulted chapel with a dome and gallery in the Nazarene style.

literature

• Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria: Vienna. II. To IX. and XX. District, III. District Landstrasse, Elisabethinen Church hl. Elisabeth with monastery and hospital. Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1993, pages 47 to 52, ISBN 3-7031-0680-8 .

Web links

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Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 18.9 ″  N , 16 ° 23 ′ 11.9 ″  E