Grinzing parish church

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The Roman Catholic parish church of Grinzing is located at Himmelstrasse 25 in the district of Grinzing in the 19th district of Döbling in Vienna . It is consecrated to the Holy Cross and belongs to City Deanery 19 in the Vicariate of Vienna City of the Archdiocese of Vienna . The building is a listed building .

history

The Grinzing parish church was financed and built by twelve families, probably wine growers , between 1417 and 1426 . This saved the people of Grinzing during the week from marching to the Heiligenstadt parish church , which was now only visited on Sundays. However, the church was twice destroyed by flames. In 1529 and 1683 the church was destroyed during the Turkish sieges and rebuilt with the help of Klosterneuburg Abbey .

In 1783, Emperor Joseph II raised Grinzing to an independent parish. The parish was entrusted to Klosterneuburg Abbey, which means that the Augustinian Canons have provided the pastors of Grinzing since then . In 1881 the church was renovated for the first time and provided with a new high altar and new glass windows. The baroque furnishings were removed. The altar cross with the assistant figures was also removed, but placed again in the church in 1965. The neo-Gothic high altar was so damaged by the middle of the 20th century that it was replaced by a marble altar .

The last renovation of the church so far was started on the parish church's 200th anniversary in 1983 and completed in 1986. Among other things, the church was dehumidified, provided with underfloor heating and expanded with a small porch at the north entrance and a confessional and discussion room in the south . The sacristy and the tower room were also rebuilt.

The organ in the parish church of Grinzing is a special treasure: until 1829 there was a baroque parapet positive with 4 registers, on which, according to local tradition, Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert played several times . Due to a particularly good vintage in 1829, the Viennese “bourgeois organ maker” Christoph Erler was commissioned to expand the instrument with an additional major work and pedal to 11 stops . The parapet positive was retained unchanged and placed in a new housing. In 1857 the organ builder Alois Hörbiger carried out a further enlargement of the organ to 15 registers for the same reason . In 1895, as part of an overhaul by the organ builder Josef Ullmann, a register of the parapet positive in the treble was replaced. From 1975 the organ was so dilapidated and unplayable due to lack of care that it was replaced by an electronic keyboard. On the initiative of the organ builder Peter Maria Kraus , who was born in Grinzing , the organ was extensively restored in 1997 by his workshop according to strict museum standards and has been in use again ever since. A historically significant bronze bell hangs in the tower.

Bell overview Pfk. Holy Cross Grinzing
Bell jar	volume	Weight	Caster	Casting year
I.	G'	700 kg	Halil	1719
II	c ''	250 kg	Cutter	1920
III	it''	120 kg	Cutter	1920
IV	b ''	37 kg	Dival	1709

literature

Christine Klusacek, Kurt Stimmer: Döbling. From the belt to the vineyards. Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-900607-06-0 , p. 163 f.

Web links

Commons : Grinzinger Pfarrkirche - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Website of the parish of Grinzing

Individual evidence

^ Vienna - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. ( Memento from May 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) . Federal Monuments Office , as of June 27, 2014 (PDF).

48.256666666667 16.339444444444Coordinates: 48 ° 15 ′ 24 ″ N , 16 ° 20 ′ 22 ″ E

[1] Vienna - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. ( Memento from May 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) . Federal Monuments Office , as of June 27, 2014 (PDF).