Evangelical parish church Mödling

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Evangelical parish church Mödling

The Evangelical Parish Church in Mödling is a Lutheran-Protestant church building in the town of Mödling in Lower Austria at Josef-Scheffer-Gasse 8. After the Gumpendorfer Church, which was built in 1848/49, the church was the second church building in the area of ​​the former Viennese parish AB , to which Mödling and the surrounding area also belonged at the time.

Building description

The historically designed hall church with an attached rectory stands in an elevated position in Josef-Scheffer-Gasse and was built in 1875 by the Dutch master builder Gerard Hendrik Duursma, a member of the Protestant community , according to plans by Eugen Sehnal . At the time of construction it was outside the city in the middle of the vineyards.

An eight-sided bell tower is attached to the three-axis nave front with a facade in the neo-renaissance style. A staircase leads to the portal, which is in the style of the Italian early Renaissance, to a height of about two meters above street level. The buildings on the side show simulated gate walls with balustrades and gabled rectangular portals.

The hall has a hollow vault and an organ gallery. The facility is from the construction period. The pulpit altar in neo-renaissance has an altar panel and the statues of Saints Peter and Paul. The altarpiece is a copy of the painting in the Vienna Art History Museum by Anthonis van Dyck with Christ on the Cross and is by Epaminonda A. Bucevschi, a Ukrainian Catholic theology fellow from Czernowitz and a student of Anselm Feuerbach .

The original organ, a slider-drawer organ from 1875 with a neo-renaissance case, has a work by Carl Hesse with the number 118. It comprised six registers and an attached pedal. In 1975 the choice was between a large-scale renovation or a new acquisition. In the end it was decided to buy a new one from Walcker Mayer organ builder in Guntramsdorf . The old organ was given to the mission church in Schmiedrait, a place in the Burgenland community of Oberschützen .

Protestant stone

Protestant stone, right of the Protestant church

To the right of the church is the Protestant stone . This stone is a stone tablet from a path chapel from 1581 between Mödling and Gumpoldskirchen. It was built by Mödling councilor and market judge Wolfgang Reitperger and his wife. During the 19th century the chapel fell into disrepair and only the tablet remained. The inscription comes from the time of the beginning Reformation .

"WHO LIKES TO HAVE GOD'S
WORD IS OF
A GOOD KIND"

- Inscription on the Protestant stone

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mödling, Mödling Geschichte, Häuser, Menschen, page 46, accessed on March 12, 2016

Web links

Commons : Evangelische Pfarrkirche Mödling  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 48 ° 4 ′ 49.7 "  N , 16 ° 16 ′ 59.7"  E