St. Patrizius Patrizigasse
The Holy. Patrizius is a copy of a stone statue of St. Patrizius from 1722 in a grassy area at the junction of Leopold Auer Street and Patrizigasse in the 21st Viennese district of Floridsdorf .
history
This figure shrine was erected by Otto Ferdinand Herzog in 1722 as a thank you for the successful escape from an attacking poacher . Today there is a copy from 1862 of the original, which is in the Floridsdorf District Museum .
description
A multi- grooved round column stands on a low two-tiered base. There is a cornice on the round column . Above it is a figure of St. Patrizius. He swore the fingers of his right hand to take an oath.
inscription
The following inscription can be read at the foot of the statue: “S. Patrizius ”and“ Stockerau 1862 ”.
literature
- Manfred Wehdorn u. a .: Free sculpture in Vienna. 1451-1918 . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-422-06781-3 , pp. 255 .
- Wolfgang Westerhoff: wayside shrines in Vienna . Vienna, St. Pölten 1993, p. 71 .
- Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.): DEHIO-HANDBUCH. The art monuments of Austria: Vienna, X. to XIX. and XXI. to XXIII. District, XXI. Schroll, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-7031-0693-X , p. 647 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 15 '26.8 " N , 16 ° 24' 17.2" E