Gustav Adolf Church (Vienna)

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Gustav Adolf Church

The Gustav-Adolf-Kirche is an Evangelical-Lutheran church building in the 6th Viennese district Mariahilf . It is the first Protestant church building in the suburbs between the Vienna city walls and the line wall .

Location and architecture

Gustav Adolf Church - chancel, draft in Försters Allgemeine Bauzeitung (1849)

The listed building is located on Lutherplatz in the Gumpendorf district . The free-standing church in the style of early historicism was built between 1846 and 1849 and is the work of the architect Ludwig Förster , assisted by his son-in-law Theophil von Hansen . Neo-Romanesque elements can be found in the rose window above the portal and the arched windows on the three-axis, symmetrically designed front facade in the form of a basilica . The use of Islamic - Neo-Byzantine ornamentation became the model for other non-Catholic sacred buildings. The tolerance patent from 1781, which was still valid at the time of construction , meant that the church, as an "acatholic" building, was not allowed to have a bell tower. At first no street-side entrance was allowed. Lunettes with portrait medallions of the humanist Ulrich von Hutten and the Reformed reformers Théodore de Bèze , Ulrich Zwingli and Johannes Calvin are located above the four side entrances .

The historicist style continues in the interior of the church, which is designed as a wall pillar church . There are two-story wooden galleries above the portal and in the side aisles, and figures of the twelve apostles are attached to the pulpit . About two wooden shrine portals are portrait busts of Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon . On the north wall there are wooden statuettes of Ludwig van Beethoven and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart . Theophil Hansen designed the zinc baptismal font in 1851. In 1951, Karl Klimt expanded the organ by Carl Hesse from 1848.

history

The land for the construction of the church was acquired in September 1844 by the Head College of the Evangelical Parish AB, which is based in the Lutheran City Church . The church, consecrated in 1849, was initially called the Twelve Apostles Church and was only renamed in 1923 after King Gustav II Adolf of Sweden, who has been commemorated by a plaque under the organ gallery since 1961. In 1882 the rectory was built next to the church. In 1983 the square in front of the church was named Lutherplatz on the occasion of Martin Luther's 500th birthday . A facade renovation was completed in 1987. Earlier restorations in the 20th century took place in 1924 and from 1954 to 1961. The parish of Gumpendorf, located in the church, is independent today and belongs to the Evangelical Superintendent of Vienna . One of her most famous pastors of recent times is the senior church councilor Johannes Dantine, who died in 1999 .

literature

  • Karl Georg Christian: Memory book of the evangelical parish Augsburg Confession Vienna-Gumpendorf according to the chronicle of O. Neuss and Dr. Johann Kaiser. Festschrift for the 75th anniversary of the laying of the foundation stone of the Gustav Adolf Church . Presbytery of the Protestant parish AB, Vienna 1924
  • Steffen Meier-Schomburg: The Evangelical Parish Church in Gumpendorf . In: Hubert Kaut: Mariahilf: Das Wiener Heimatbuch . Austria Press, Vienna 1963, pp. 125–127

Web links

Commons : Gustav-Adolf-Kirche (Vienna)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dehio-Handbuch Wien. II. To IX. and XX. District . Edited by Federal Monuments Office. Anton Schroll, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-7031-0680-8 , pp. 240–241
  2. ^ Felix Czeike : Viennese district culture guide: VI., Mariahilf. Jugend und Volk, Vienna 1981, ISBN 3-7141-6234-8 , p. 21

Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 25.5 ″  N , 16 ° 20 ′ 37.4 ″  E