Johannes Nepomuk Chapel (intermediate bridges)
The Johannes Nepomuk Chapel was located in the outer intermediate bridges in a small settlement that had to give way to the Viennese Danube regulation at the beginning of the 1870s . It was located southeast of the site where the present since 1875 Floridsdorfer bridge the Hubertusdamm (from here southward to 1924, the second then 21 district of Vienna , Floridsdorf crosses).
history
At the southern end of the bridge over the then main arm of the river (it led from Floridsdorf north of the Danube to the road through the Danube floodplains and Leopoldstadt to Vienna ) bridge tolls were levied. The toll officials working there asked for a chapel to be built, as the service seldom allowed them to go to the nearest but distant church, the Leopoldau parish church , for mass.
In 1769, during the reign of Maria Theresa , the Johannes Nepomuk Chapel, a simple building with a small tower, was built with the permission of the Passau Consistory, which is responsible for the church here, at the southern end of the bridge on the eastern side of the road to enable travelers and employees here to visit the Mass . Christian Volkmann was used as a beneficiary. Under his successor Hennrichs, the chapel and the church treasury were plundered by the French in 1809 .
In a letter issued on November 26, 1778, Maria Theresia, in her function as Archduke of Austria, donated a sum of money that was invested in the Copper Office to finance the mass on Sundays and public holidays from the proceeds. The doctor Jakob Bernhard Anton Rauch followed this example on July 30, 1785 and also donated masses on Sundays and holidays. This foundation was later changed, however, and additional services on Wednesdays and instead of the 16 public holidays on the same number of Saturdays were financed with it.
On September 25, 1814, Emperor Franz I welcomed Tsar Alexander of Russia and King Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia , who traveled to the Congress of Vienna for peace negotiations after the victory over Napoléon Bonaparte . The inn across the street from the chapel was named To the Three Allies on this occasion .
In 1836, the intermediate bridges with the chapel were transferred to the newly founded parish of Floridsdorf . The administration of the foundation funds was also transferred to the new parish.
When the area between the Danube Canal and the then main stream, today's Old Danube , was incorporated into Vienna as the 2nd district in 1850 , the chapel was now in this new district.
The Johannes Nepomuk Chapel was redeemed by the Danube Regulatory Commission and demolished in 1872 or 1873, as the floodplain area of the new main river and a protective dam were to be built at its location.
Location question
In the literature, the chapel is ascribed to today's area of the 20th district, Brigittenau . Distance measurements based on the plan from 1821 published by Lemma Zwischenbrücken using the Brigitta Chapel that existed then and now and the course of the Danube Canal, which has not changed since then, as fixed points, make this attribution appear implausible when compared with today's city plans. The plan of the Danube breakthrough in the article Vienna Danube Regulation shows that the chapel was located north of the straightened river.
The location of the chapel was from 1850 in the 2nd district (see above); After the incorporation of Floridsdorf as the 21st district in 1904, the northern part of the area of the 2nd district, now located to the left of the new main river, was not connected to the 21st district until February 19, 1924.
literature
- Brigittenauer Heimat, published by the study group of teachers of the XX. District, self-published by the working group of teachers of the XX. District
- Hans Smital: History of the large community of Floridsdorf including the places Floridsdorf, Jedlesee, Donaufeld and the Jedlersdorfer factory area , published by the community, Floridsdorf, 1903
Individual evidence
- ↑ Brigittenau home
- ^ History of the large community of Floridsdorf
- ↑ LGBl. No. 22/1924 (= p. 33)
Coordinates: 48 ° 14 ′ 55 " N , 16 ° 23 ′ 33" E