Sacred Heart Church (St. Pölten)
The Herz-Jesu-Kirche ( ) is a Roman Catholic monastery church in St. Pölten on Dr.-Karl-Renner-Promenade 6. The branch church of the St. Pölten Cathedral is the monastery church of the local Franciscan Sisters' community from Amstetten and is a listed building ( list entry ).
Sacred Heart Church
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A residential building built in 1877 with a neo-renaissance facade was bought by the Bishops' Alumnate in 1885. As a result, a church in Romanesque-Gothic forms was added in 1886 and at the same time the residential building was converted into a monastic institute. The main facade of the church with a blind arch frieze and a central banded template and rosettes looks like the present monastery to the Dr.-Karl-Renner-Promenade 6. The side facade with buttresses and pointed arch windows is on the east side. The church has a roof turret.
The church with a three-bay cross-rib vaulted nave and a three-sided choir closure is a vaulted church over wall pillars. The organ loft, vaulted with a groin, stands on pillars.
There is a crucifix from the 2nd half of the 19th century. The baroque statues of St. Joseph with Child and Maria Immaculate are from the 1st half of the 18th century.
history
In 1872, Prelate Michael Ransauer founded a brotherhood for the adoration of the Most Holy Sacrament and the production of liturgical vestments . In 1877 he bought a one-story house in which a workshop for the production of parament was set up. A church was built in 1886, but it had to be demolished that same year due to construction errors. The St. Pölten master builder Johann Wohlmeyer was commissioned with the immediate new construction, the new church was inaugurated on December 30, 1886. In 1895 the parament workshop was taken over by the Franciscan nuns in Amstetten . In 1917 the two bells, the Sacred Heart Bell and the Joseph Bell , had to be delivered for war purposes, and it was not until 1920 that two new bells could be purchased. These in turn were drafted as war metal in 1942 and have not been replaced to this day. The Croatian Catholic Mission , which is also located in the residential building, holds a service in Croatian every Sunday in the Sacred Heart Church .
literature
- Dehio Lower Austria south of the Danube 2003 , St. Pölten, sacred buildings, Herz-Jesu-Kirche, page 1996.
- Thomas Karl et al., 1999: The art monuments of the city of St. Pölten and its incorporated localities , ISBN 3-85028-310-0 , chapter Herz-Jesu-Kirche and monastery building , pp. 259–261
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Office of the diocese of St. Pölten for liturgical vestments ( Memento of the original from December 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. History of the House, Retrieved April 27, 2010
- ^ Franziskanerinnen Amstetten branch in St. Pölten, accessed on April 27, 2010
Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 6.8 ″ N , 15 ° 37 ′ 23.2 ″ E