Johann Nepomuk Church (Leopoldstadt)

Parish church hl. Johannes Nepomuk in Leopoldstadt

inside view

The parish church Johannes Nepomuk (colloquially: Nepomukkirche ) is a Roman Catholic parish church in the 2nd Viennese district Leopoldstadt on Praterstrasse . The parish is in the deanery 2/20 of the Archdiocese of Vienna belonging city Vicariate Vienna . It is the Holy Johannes Nepomuk ordained . The building is a listed building .

Location description

The main front of the Johann Nepomuk Church is on Praterstrasse, with the church building located between Nepomukgasse and Rotensterngasse.

history

The Johann Nepomuk Church goes back to a picture of Our Lady, which was venerated in the house Jägerzeile No. 7 in private devotion. The copy of the miraculous image of Maria Pötsch in St. Stephan , also called “ Rosa mystica in the Jägerzeile”, survived a fire in 1729 unscathed and was therefore revered as miraculous. The miraculous image was attached to a tree, and a wooden chapel was subsequently built over it. After the inhabitants of the Jägerzeile were spared an epidemic between 1730 and 1731 and the picture had survived a heavy storm in 1734 that splintered the tree, the worship of the miraculous image increased. The residents then built a stone chapel, which was completed in 1736 and dedicated to St. John Nepomuk. Since the chapel was an obstacle to traffic, the chapel was demolished in 1780 and replaced by a new building by the master builder Franz Duschinger . The consecration took place on March 17, 1782, in 1786 the church was elevated to a parish church. Due to the population growth, it became necessary to build a larger church. After the church was demolished in 1840, the new building was carried out by Carl Rösner between 1841 and 1846 , with the church consecrated on October 18, 1846. In 1945 the church was damaged by bombs.

architecture

Church exterior

The Johann Nepomuk Church is an important church building from early historicism , with the block-like, cube-shaped, closed building with its tower-crowned facade facing Praterstrasse. Characteristic for the building is the typical early historical flat structure with an economical, small-scale decoration. Externally, the church has a five-bay facade, a two-story exterior and room structure and a three-story polygonal facade rider with a high pointed helmet. There is a high arched window above the three church portals, which is flanked by two niches. The niches house figures of St. Ferdinand ( Franz Bauer ) and St. Anna ( Josef Klieber ).

Church interior

The interior of the church has a three-axis vestibule, the main room was built with three naves and three bays, with the cross-ribbed pillar hall being designed in a quattrocentesque-Byzantine style.

Furnishing

The high altar is made of marble and shows a miraculous image of Mary with child from the 19th century. The altar wall is dominated by a fresco painted by Leopold Kupelwieser between 1841 and 1844 , which depicts St. John Nepomuk being taken into heaven. The front sides of the transept show the Adoration of the Shepherds on the left ( Leopold Schulz , 1845) and on the right the Resurrection of Christ (Leopold Schulz, 1846). The miraculous image, on whose existence the church is based, is in turn in the left transept arm in a three-part stone wall altar. The Way of the Cross consists of 14 frescoes that were created by Joseph Führich between 1844 and 1846 .

organ

View of the organ

The organ of the church was manufactured in 1989 by the Upper Austrian Organ Building Institute St. Florian and consecrated in 1990. The organ case is a listed building; it comes from the parish church in Krems. The slider chest instrument has 27 stops on two manuals and a pedal . The actions are mechanical.

I Hauptwerk C – g 3 1. Bourdon 16 ′ 2. Principal 8th' 3. Gemshorn 8th' 4th Reed flute 8th' 5. Octave 4 ′ 6th flute 4 ′ 7th Quint 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ 8th. Super octave 2 ′ 9. Mixture IV-VI 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ 10. Cornett V 8th' 11. Trumpet 8th'

II Swell C – g 3 12. Principal 8th' 13. Bourdon 8th' 14th viola 8th' 15th Unda maris 8th' 16. Octave 4 ′ 17th Transverse flute 4 ′ 18th Cornettino III 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ 19th Flautino 2 ′ 20th Sharp IV 21st oboe 8th' Tremulant

Pedals C – f 1 22nd Principal 16 ′ 23. Sub bass 16 ′ 24. Octave bass 8th' 25th Covered bass 8th' 26th Octave 4 ′ 27. trombone 16 ′

• Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P

literature

• Dehio Handbook Vienna. II. To IX. and XX. District . Edited by Federal Monuments Office. Anton Schroll, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-7031-0680-8
• Bernhard Rittinger: Vienna, St. Johann Nepomuk (= Peda art guide, No. 542). Gregor Peda Kunstverlag, Passau 2001, ISBN 3-89643-542-6 .

Web links

Commons : Johann Nepomuk Church  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the parish of St. Johann Nepomuk
• Little Church Leader Johann Nepomuk Church (PDF; 291 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Vienna - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. ( Memento from May 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) . Federal Monuments Office , as of June 26, 2015 (PDF).
2. ↑ Information on the organ (PDF; 11 kB)

Coordinates: 48 ° 12 '58 "  N , 16 ° 23' 10.7"  E