Heart of Mary (Wiener Neustadt)
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The parish church Herz Mariä is the Roman Catholic church in the Josefstadt district ( war hospital ) in Wiener Neustadt , Pottendorfer Straße 117.
History and description of the building
The origin of the church goes back to a church barrack in the military hospital of the First World War . This was used as a clubhouse and theater hall after the war in the republic. With the year 1934 and the establishment of the Austro-Fascist system, it was used again as a so-called emergency church of the workers' residential area of the war hospital . Cardinal Theodor Innitzer consecrated the barrack church in 1934 in honor of the Immaculate Conception of Mary . After the annexation of Austria , the barrack church had to be demolished in 1939 and the faithful of the war hospital district were assigned to the suburban church. After the Second World War in 1945, it was possible to acquire another and last remaining barrack from the liquidation office of the German Labor Front and to resume pastoral care on site.
The new building of the church was carried out between 1957 and 1959 according to the plans of the architect Josef Patzelt as a rectangular concrete building with a flat hipped roof, side bell tower and an attached two-story rectory. The young architect had already won architectural competitions and was asked by Provost Prelate Leopold Uhl for a design. Patzelt had already acquired the book Neue Kirchen-Kunst in Geiste der Liturgie from Pius Parsch and Robert Kramreiter during the Second World War , which had a strong influence on him, and the first draft envisaged a central building that would gather the believers around the altar. The building director Msgr. Alois Penall from Lanzenkirchen in the Archdiocese of Vienna , 10 years before Vatican II , quoted Patzelt: pulled me down , and it became a tame church building. With an open attached side chapel, from where the service at the main altar can still be experienced, a remnant of concentration was maintained. Kramreiter's church on the Hohe Wand was the starting point for his design work. The parsonage, which was added on, also had to find space on the property, with the church dominating with a fully encircling cornice above the ridge of the parsonage. Contrary to the usual design regulations, Patzelt dared to have triplet windows, as a reference to the Triune God, above the main entrance and by the tower, which break through the surrounding cornice up to the sky. In the interior of the nave, Patzelt designed a ceiling band that leads the believers to the altar. The apse with a radius of 4 m and 9 m high is semicircular based on the first early church form and was designed by the painter Florian Jakowitsch from Wiener Neustadt with a large, impressive color window with concrete walkways based on French models .
The church was consecrated by Cardinal Theodor Innitzer when it was consecrated in 1959, now after a vow by Prelate Uhl in honor of the Immaculate Heart of Mary , and elevated to the status of a parish church.
A bell by Heinrich Reinhard from 1617 with a relief representation of a crucifixion group with the adoring donor Archduke Maximilian III. was transferred from the Georgskirche of the former imperial castle in 1959 to the bell of the parish church Herz Mariä .
literature
- Dehio Lower Austria south of the Danube 2003 , Wiener Neustadt, parish church Herz Mariä, page 2632.
- Festschrift 50 Years of the Church - 50 Years Parish Heart of Mary , Parish Heart of Mary, Wiener Neustadt 2009, 125 pages.
Web links
- Website of the parish Herz Mariä Wiener Neustadt
- Herz-Mariä-Kirche on the website of the Archdiocese of Vienna
Coordinates: 47 ° 49 ′ 53.1 ″ N , 16 ° 15 ′ 47.1 ″ E