Hundsturm Chapel

The Hundsturm Chapel after the renovation

Frontal view

The Hundsturm Chapel (also known as: Hundsturm Chapel, Hundsturm Chapel, Johannes Nepomuk Chapel, St. Johannes Nepomuk Chapel. ) Is a Roman Catholic former line chapel in the 5th district of Vienna, Margareten , on the corner of Schönbrunner Strasse and St. -Johann-Gasse on the edge of the Bruno-Kreisky-Park and belongs to the parish church of St. Josef zu Margareten . It is one of the few line bands in Vienna that still exists today.

history

Between 1740 and 1760 , 18 chapels were built at the gates of the line wall , over whose moat there were drawbridges, all of which were dedicated to St. Nepomuk (patron saint of bridges). The purpose of the chapels was to offer all travelers to and from Vienna as well as the toll officers employed in the line offices the opportunity to do their prayer and to hear mass.

Originally, the Hundsturmer Chapel was flanked by eight life-size statues of saints. Four of these statues, St. Florian , St. Josef , St. Rochus and St. Ludwig , ended up in the garden of Linzer Straße 466 in the 14th district in the Hütteldorf district in 1896 . Today Sankt Ludwig stands not far from it in the Hütteldorfer Friedhof , the other three were returned and are again in front of or next to the Hundsturm chapel.

21st century

The only line chapel built in 1759 on the Hundsturm Line (also called Schönbrunn Chapel) has been preserved in its original location and in its original state. At the beginning of the 21st century , the baroque chapel was completely renovated in seven years with around € 290,000. In this fresco painter Franz Anton Maulbertsch discovered and the chapel floor was lowered to its original level.

literature

• Johannes Nepomuk Chapel (5, Schönbrunner Straße) in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
• New splendor for Vienna's only line band. In: Wien Holding News, May 17, 2007. Wien Holding GmbH (Ed.).
• Ludwig: Hundsturm Chapel shines in new splendor. In: Archive report of the Rathauskorrespondenz , May 18, 2007. Press and Information Service of the City of Vienna (publisher).

Web links

Commons : Hundsturmer Kapelle  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Jewel: Hundsturmkapelle shines in new splendor. In: Vienna. ORF .at, May 19, 2007.
• Hundsturm line chapel. In: Planet Vienna, Andreas Faessler (Ed.).
• ASDF23: Hundsturm line band . 360 ° panoramic view including chapel. In: go5.at, GO5 community (ed.).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ City Hall correspondence, May 18, 2007.
2. ↑ Chronicle. In: Website St. Josef zu Margareten, accessed on April 6, 2019.
3. ^ Wien Holding News, May 17, 2007.
4. ^ Vienna History Wiki in the version of April 6, 2019.
5. ↑ Isabella Ackerl, Harald A. Jahn: Unknown Vienna - hidden beauty, shimmering splendor . Pichler Verlag, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-85431-513-1 , pp. 56 f .

Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 16 ″  N , 16 ° 20 ′ 41 ″  E