Guard Church

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View of the church from Rennweg

The Gardekirche or Church of Resurrectionists in honor of the crucified Savior is located on Rennweg 5a in the 3rd  Vienna district highway . The classicist central building with interior decoration in the form of courtly rococo ( Josephine baroque classicism ) is considered one of the main works of the architect Nikolaus von Pacassi .

history

When the Kaiserspital moved into the former Dreifaltigkeitsspital on Rennweg , it was decided to build a hospital church. The planning took place in 1754, the construction under Pacassi dragged on from 1755 to 1763. In 1763 the church was consecrated. The church, open on three sides, clamped on one side, has a central, slightly oval, almost circular dome in solid masonry and a choir extension. In 1769, structural damage was repaired by Jean Baptiste Brequin with the builder Nikolaus Peter Mollner , with the roof and facade being redesigned.

In 1782 Joseph II closed the hospital and quartered the Polish (Galician) bodyguard; the church has taken its name from what was later to be the bodyguard barracks . In 1803 the oratory of the church was converted into an apartment. In 1890 the imperial hospital building was largely demolished and the rest of the church was handed over to the Polish resurrectionists in 1897. Since then there have also been masses in Polish in the church.

Together with the remains of the building, it was renovated and raised by Richard Jordan in 1898 , whereby the bell tower was also raised. In 2001, in memory of Pope John Paul II's three visits to Austria , a memorial was erected to the side of the church portal.

Interior

View of the chancel

The interior of the church is an oval room with an almost oblong choir and two adjoining rooms. The decorations in rococo shapes are white and gold and centered on the oval dome with lantern. The high altar image of Christ on the Cross is by Peter Strudel , there are also two side altars in simple marbled reredos. The left side altarpiece shows the death of St. Joseph, was made before 1742 and signed Ignaz D. Heinitz , the right is probably Italian from the middle of the 17th century and shows St. Elisabeth. In the sacristy there is a pietá from the 2nd half of the 17th century and a wooden crucifix from the middle of the 18th century.

literature

  • Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria: Vienna. II. To IX. and XX. District, III. Landstrasse district, churches. Guard Church. Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1993, page 54ff, ISBN 3-7031-0680-8 .
  • Felix Czeike : Historical Lexicon Vienna. Volume 1: A – Da. Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-218-00543-4 .

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Coordinates: 48 ° 11 '52.1 "  N , 16 ° 22' 44.8"  E