Church of the Redeemer (Landstrasse)
The Erlöserkirche , also known as the Czech Church , is a former monastery church and today a Roman Catholic branch church of the Rennweg-Mariä Birth parish in the 3rd district of Vienna, Landstrasse am Rennweg . The church is located in the Dean's Office 3 of the Archdiocese of Vienna belonging city Vicariate Vienna . The Church of the Redeemer used to be the monastery church of the Redemptorist Monastery and is now owned by the Comforters of Gethsemani , who mainly take care of the pastoral care of Czechs in the diaspora. The church is a listed building .
location
The exterior of the simply structured monastery complex faces the Rennweg with its main front and is delimited by Boerhavegasse and Schützengasse .
history
The church and the monastery were built between 1834 and 1836 according to plans by the architect Carl Roesner on behalf of the "Worthy Women of the Order of the Most Holy Redeemer in Vienna", commonly known as Redemptorists. It is the first project by the architect in Vienna, who thus decisively shaped historicism in Vienna. For the design, he used Renaissance stylistic devices that can be traced back to the architect's studies in Italy . The builder Anton Hoppe was responsible for the execution of the building . Today the building is no longer preserved in its original version. The rear tracts, which used to enclose a courtyard, were torn down after the monastery was sold to the St. Method Association in 1908 when Schützengasse was built. A meeting room was built in the now open courtyard.
Since 1922, the church has been owned by the "Congregation of the Daughters of Gethsemani", which emerged from the St. Method Association, which primarily cares for the pastoral care of the Czechs and Slovaks in the diaspora.
In 1944 the church was hit by a bomb in the area of the choir. The high altar was destroyed. From the original altar only the miraculous image "Mary of Perpetual Help" is preserved. The sacristy , the club hall built after 1908 and the tower were also damaged in the bombing. The tower was not given its original structure when it was restored.
In 1968 the church received an interior restoration and the church roof was renewed.
Building description
The church has a simply designed single tower facade and forms the middle part of the monastery complex. The monastery wings on the left and right are set back slightly. The church building, which is designed as a hall church with side aisles-like extensions, is one of the most important works of early historicism in Austria .
Exterior
The church building emerges like a risalit against the lower monastery buildings adjoining it on the side . The facade is structured by square joints . At the side it is through finely profiled, twice divided pilaster strips . These carry a console frieze . There is a triangular gable above the console frieze . The church tower rises above it and is pierced by round windows. It lost its original structure in the Second World War . The portal is arched and flanked by pilasters that support a rectangular structure that is closed at the top by a straight cornice . Above it is a round window with a delicately profiled frame. In the gable field there is a smaller tondo and on the tower there is the clock in such a frame.
The three-storey monastery wings on both sides of the church each have five window axes with rounded arched windows. The tracts in Boerhavegasse are also three-story and have no facade decorations. In between is the one-storey club hall, built after 1908, with a gabled portal. The external structure of the hall corresponds to the three-storey facade in Schützengasse, which was also not built until after 1908. The facade in Schützengasse has nine window axes, the three middle ones are gabled. The house wall is structured by grooved pilaster strips and mirror fields .
Interior
The interior of the church is a hall with several adjoining rooms. The transversely rectangular gallery or vestibule yoke connects to the central square central yoke, side aisle-like corridors. Above it are galleries. The choir is separated from the nave by a triumphal arch . Four marbled pillars with composite capitals create a canopy-like ceiling vault. The square central bay rests on flat pillars and opens up in three pilaster arcades towards the aisles. There are round arches separated by pilasters above the cornice. Above each is a round window. In the choir, in the middle of the cross vault, there is a round lantern opening that is as large as the arched windows on the sides. In the middle of the central yoke is a framed tondo. In the choir bay are blind arcades on the side walls . Above it are two-story galleries with arched windows.
The vestibule has three aisles in the basilica style. There are also oratorios above the low side aisles, which open in triforias towards the nave. Above is the organ gallery.
Furnishing
High altar
The altar table is kept simple. The altarpiece was created in the Renaissance style with pilasters and columns. In front of it is a column retable. The entire altar area was recreated after the Second World War, only the two angels kneeling on the gable and the miraculous image were taken from the previous high altar. The image of grace represents the "Mary of Perpetual Help". The 50 × 40 cm oil painting on wood was probably created for the altar after 1866. It is a copy of a miraculous image in the Alfonso Church in Rome . This was brought from Crete to Rome in the 15th century and in 1867 by Pope Pius IX. given to the Redemptorists. Angels hover above Mary with the child, holding the instruments of suffering . The altarpiece was painted on the wall as a fresco . It shows the “Glorification of the Heart of Jesus ” It was painted in 1948 by J. Magerele based on a design by the local friars. It has the dimensions of 1100 × 800 cm.
Lady Chapel
The Lady Chapel is to the right of the church entrance. It was furnished in the neo-baroque style in 1935 . It was renewed after the Second World War. On the altar there is a copy of the miraculous image of Brandýs nad Labem-Stará Boleslav and a small relief made of copper .
sacristy
The sacristy is a high, vaulted room in which two straps stretched from side to side cross each other.
organ
The organ was built in 1910 by Franz Josef Swoboda. The instrument, equipped with a pneumatic action, has ten registers and was rebuilt in 1965.
literature
- Hajós, Géza; u. a .: Austrian art topography. The art monuments of Vienna. The churches of the III. District . 1st edition. Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1974, ISBN 3-7031-0373-6 , p. 118 f .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Vienna - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. ( Memento from May 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) . Federal Monuments Office , as of June 28, 2013 (PDF).
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Disused religious buildings: Association synagogue (Untere Viaduktgasse) | Nikolaikirche (Rochusmarkt)
Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 37.8 " N , 16 ° 23 ′ 27.7" E