Eucharistic Memorial Church of St. Johann Kapistran
The St. Johann Kapistran branch church is a Roman Catholic branch church in the 20th district of Brigittenau in Vienna at Forsthausgasse 22. The Eucharistic Memorial Church is dedicated to St. Johannes Capistranus and belongs to the Vicariate Wien-Stadt .
history
With a document from the Archbishop's Ordinariate As of December 30, 1938, the parish at the Eucharistic Memorial Church in Vienna XX was established on January 1, 1939. The name Eucharistic Memorial Church is intended to remember the 23rd World Eucharistic Congress that took place in Vienna in 1912.
The parish of St. Johann Kapistran was abolished on September 1, 2019 and is part of the parish of St. John Paul II, whose parish church is the Brigittakirche . The church of St. Johann Kapistran has since been a branch church of the parish of St. John Paul II and the church of the sub-community of St. Johann Kapistran.
Architecture and equipment
The polygonal central building with concrete glass windows and a coffered concrete cast flat roof was built in the immediate vicinity of the Brigittakapelle from 1962 to 1965 according to the plans of the architect Kurt Widter and consecrated in 1965.
The sculptor and painter Günther Kraus created the design of the glass windows . A carved crucifix in the chancel was created by sculptor Edwin Grienauer around 1960. In front of the church there is an artificial stone figure of the Good Shepherd from 1960 on a plinth .
The organ was built in 1975 by the Upper Austrian Orgelbauanstalt St. Florian and has 16 stops on two manuals and a pedal.
The concrete relief on the entrance facade, 4.5 meters wide and 6 meters high, with the representation of St. Johannes Kapistran, pointing to a large cross, was designed by the sculptors Erna al Cihade and Mostafa Ragab and installed in 1983. The inscription reads: Only in the cross is salvation .
literature
- Georg Dehio (welcomed), Wolfgang Czerny u. a. (Arr.): XX. Brigittenau district, parish church of St. Johannes Kapistran . In the S. Vienna. II. To IX. and XX. District . Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1993, page 442, ISBN 3-7031-0680-8 ( Die Kunstdenkmäler Österreichs ).
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Individual evidence
Coordinates: 48 ° 14 ′ 40.8 " N , 16 ° 22 ′ 27.3" E
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Roman Catholic churches and chapels: All Saints Church | Brigittakirche | Parish Church of the Divine Savior | St. Johann Kapistran • Others: Brigittakapelle (also georg-orth.)
Disused sacred building: Kaschlgasse synagogue