Redeemer Church (Leopoldau)

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Church of the Redeemer in Kainachgasse

The Erlöserkirche ( listen ? / I ) is an Evangelical Lutheran church building in the Leopoldau district of Vienna's 21st district of Floridsdorf . Audio file / audio sample

Location and architecture

The free-standing church building is located at Kainachgasse 39 in the Nordrandsiedlung, a loosely built-up settlement on the outskirts. The Erlöserkirche has a rectangular floor plan under a gable roof . In the west it has a vestibule and a small bell tower. The two-storey rectory adjoins the church in the northeast.

inside view

The interior is oriented in a west-east direction. In the east are the altar, the pulpit and the baptismal font, while the pipe organ is on a gallery in the west . This has 11 registers, two manuals and a pedal. The church windows on the side fronts are arranged in groups of two by three windows each.

history

The Church of the Redeemer is home to the parish of Leopoldau of the Evangelical Superintendent of Vienna . The building was built from 1959 to 1961 according to plans by the architect Ernst Liebe. The vicar Friedrich Preyer at the time designed the altar, the pulpit and the baptismal font. Preyer was later a pastor in the Liesingen Johanneskirche , for which he made several reliefs. While the single-family houses to the south and west of the church date from the 1930s, the community buildings on the building sites in the north and east were not built until 1967 to 1969. During a renovation in 1983, the Erlöserkirche received a slightly vaulted wooden ceiling. In the bell tower hangs a bell (tone: e ''), which was cast by the Grassmayr bell foundry in 1964.

literature

  • Dehio Handbook Vienna. X. to XIX. and XXI. to XXIII. District . Edited by Federal Monuments Office. Anton Schroll, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-7031-0693-X .

Web links

Commons : Erlöserkirche (Leopoldau)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Aistgasse 8–30 residential complex (pdf), Wiener Wohnen website , accessed on July 11, 2011.

Coordinates: 48 ° 17 ′ 0.6 ″  N , 16 ° 26 ′ 56.5 ″  E