Fieberkapelle Rothneusiedl
The fever Chapel , also fever Kreuzkapelle or shortly fever Cross called, is a listed baroque chapel on the sand mining area between Rothneusiedl and Hennersdorf (in the extension of Poestiongasse west). It is located in the 10th Viennese district of Favoriten , Rothneusiedl district, in the immediate vicinity of the ÖBB - Vienna South freight center . The original dirt roads to the Fieberkapelle have been significantly changed by the new feeder road from the Vienna outer ring expressway S1 to the freight center that has existed since 2016.
Construction and history
The chapel has a three-sided floor plan with a one-armed cross on the top of the roof. The year 1709 is affixed to a round cartouche above the entrance. In the interior there was a wood-carved baroque statue of the Virgin Mary from 1790, which has been installed in the Oberlaa parish church since 1959 . Now there is a copy of the statue in the chapel. In 1883 the building was renovated by the innkeeper Anton Kronberger from Rothneusiedl.
The reason for the erection of the fever cross is said to have been the rescue of the dean Cante from Laxenburg, who on his night journey home from Vienna got into the swamps that were formerly located here and threatened to sink with his horse and carriage. In gratitude for his salvation, he donated this chapel on a small rise in the marshland. This swamp had caused fever among the population, which explains the name of the chapel.
literature
- Emil Schneeweis: On the religious folklore of the southern outskirts of Vienna: The wayside shrines, crosses and pillars of the Oberlaa and Unterlaa as well as Rothneusiedl. in: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Volkskunde , Volume XXV , self-published by the Verein für Volkskunde, Vienna 1971, p. 317 (picture), p. 323–324 (text) [1] .
- Werner Schubert : Favorites. Verlag Bezirksmuseum Favoriten , 1992; P. 173.
- Robert Messner: The road in the pre-March period. Historical-topographical representation of the south-eastern suburbs and suburbs of Vienna based on the cadastral survey. Vienna: Association of Austrian Scientific Societies 1978 (Topographie von Alt-Wien, 5), p. 179.
- Herbert Tschulk: X. Favorites. Vienna [u. a.]: Jugend & Volk 1985 (Wiener Bezirkskulturführer, 10), p. 51.
- Dehio: Vienna. X. to XIX. and XXI. to XXIII. District . Verlag Anton Scholl & Co. 1996, p. 40.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 7 ′ 42.2 ″ N , 16 ° 22 ′ 15.3 ″ E