Faniteum

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Dome of the chapel of the Faniteum

The Faniteum is a building in the 13th Vienna district , Hietzing . The convent of St. Joseph the Discalced Carmelite Sisters has been housed in the complex, built at the end of the 19th century as a convalescent home with a mausoleum .

history

Count Karl Lanckoroński donated the Faniteum in memory of his late first wife Franziska Xaveria von Attems-Heiligenkreuz, called "Fani" (1861-1893), as a convalescent home for girls, the chapel of which he designated as a mausoleum for his wife. The architect of the complex, which was built from 1894 to 1896, was the Swiss Emanuel La Roche . (Lanckoroński originally wanted to build a summer house with his first wife here, at Hanschweg 1 near the St. Veiter Gate of the Lainzer Tiergarten . When she died giving birth to his son Anton, he changed his plans.)

In 1899 the building was redesigned and expanded by the architects Amand Louis Bauqué and Albert Emilio Pio .

In 1938 the German Wehrmacht's air force confiscated the building. It then served the British occupation from 1945 to 1948 . In 1974 the convent of the Discalced Carmelite Sisters acquired the Faniteum and established the monastery of St. Joseph there. The originally two- wing complex was expanded into a four-wing building from 1976 to 1977 according to plans by the architect Walter Hildebrand .

Location and architecture

Inside of the dome

The Faniteum is in an elevated position on the municipality mountain in the Ober-St.-Veit district . The component from the 19th century is designed in the neo-renaissance style.

The chapel, under which the crypt is located, is designed based on the Pazzi Chapel in Florence . It is a central building with a dome. The arcade vestibule with Corinthian columns is oriented towards St. Stephen's Cathedral . In the lunette of the main portal there is a stone relief of Italian origin, which was created at the beginning of the 16th century. The stone baptismal font and the holy water font were made in Italy around 1500. Two baroque paintings on the west wall date from the middle of the 17th century. A marble tombstone belonging to the Lanckoroński family from the interwar period can be found in an adjoining room, accessible through a Venetian window .

In the old wing of the monastery, the facade of which is structured with a loggia and pillar arcades, there are numerous other works of art. An Italian terracotta statue of Christ as ruler of the world , a Madonna tondo in the style of the Florentine sculptor family Della Robbia and the stone door jambs in the sacristy date from around 1500 . Four wooden holy figures were made in the 17th century and were previously in the imperial Carmelite monastery at Salzgries . In a corridor of the east wing are wall paintings depicting the seven bodily works of mercy , which Wilhelm Steinhausen created in 1895/1896.

See also

literature

  • Emmerich Schaffran: Local history hikes . 1924.
  • Hietzing, a home book of the 13th district of Vienna . 1st volume, 1925.
  • Vinzenz Jerabek: Experienced and heard from Vienna's suburbs . 1956.
  • Gerhard Weissenbacher: Built in Hietzing . Volume I, 1996.
  • Dietmar Grieser: In memoriam Fanitae . In: Ders .: Eine Liebe in Wien, St. Pölten-Wien-Linz 2003 (10th edition)
  • Aleksandra Szymanowicz-Hren: Faniteum . Its construction and its history. LIT Verlag, Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-643-50888-1 .

Web links

Commons : Faniteum  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DEHIO Vienna - X. to XIX. and XXI. to XXIII. District . Schroll, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-7031-0693-X , pp. 167-169.

Coordinates: 48 ° 10 ′ 34.9 ″  N , 16 ° 15 ′ 20.2 ″  E