Herz-Jesu-Kirche (Vienna-Margareten)

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Herz-Jesu-Kirche in the street
inside view

The Herz-Jesu-Kirche ( listen ? / I ) is located in Einsiedlergasse in the 5th district of Margareten in Vienna . The Roman Catholic Rectorate Church belongs to the City Deanery 4/5 in the Vicariate Vienna City of the Archdiocese of Vienna . The church is a listed building . Audio file / audio sample

history

The church was the first neo-Romanesque building as a brick church with a double tower facade in the street line of Einsiedlergasse at No. 9 from 1875 to 1879 according to the plans of the architect Josef Schmalzhofer as the monastery church of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd . In 1939 the church was elevated to a parish church. In 1949 a sacristy was added. In 1972 the parish church was converted into a categorical church and now serves the Slovenian community.

architecture

The double tower facade has a gable front with a large round window and a romanized frieze and a multi-tiered round arch portal. The two towers have biforas and rhombic roofs. The tympanum relief shows the Good Shepherd and the relief above the Madonna and Child. The interior of the church is a single-nave hall with transept-like chapels, a slightly recessed aspis and an organ gallery. The elevated central yoke on capitals and cornices and the side chapels are groin vaulted, otherwise with barrel vaults on girders.

In the apse there is a wall painting on a gold background of Christ as the Heart of Jesus under God the Father with religious saints, apostles and prophets surrounded by choirs of angels by the painter Josef Kastner the Elder .

Furnishing

The high altar from the construction period shows a plastic crucifixion with the Hll. Maria, Johannes, Maria Magdalena and Longinus by the sculptor Franz Schütz from 1946. A side altar bears a picture of St. Richard by the painter B. Böttger from 1936.

The organ of the Herz-Jesu-Kirche is an instrument with eleven stops on two manuals and a pedal , which was originally built by Johann M. Kauffmann in 1884 and rebuilt in 1895. The Molzer company carried out another renovation in 1941.

Rectory

On the facade of the rectory at no. 9-11 is a stone crucifix made in 1936 by the sculptor Carl Wollek .

literature

Web links

Commons : Herz Jesu Kirche Wien Margareten  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Wadsack: The organs of the 5th Viennese district. Historical documentation and current inventory with special consideration of organ pedagogical aspects. Vienna 2015, p. 49.

Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 0.9 ″  N , 16 ° 21 ′ 1.8 ″  E