Johanneskirche (Liesing)

Johanneskirche in Liesing

The Johanneskirche is an Evangelical Lutheran church building in the 23rd district of Liesing in Vienna .

Location and architecture

The free-standing building is located at Dr.-Andreas-Zailer-Gasse 10 in the middle of a residential area in the Atzgersdorf district . It is 235  m above sea level. A. and is thus the highest Protestant church building in Vienna. The Johanneskirche is a listed Art Deco building and was built from 1930 to 1935. The architect Henry Lutz was instrumental in its design. Its square church tower has a characteristic step-shaped roof with a cross at the top.

The concrete columns inside the church are based on the picture Praying Hands by Albrecht Dürer . The current church windows with depictions of the twelve apostles , Martin Luther and Johann Sebastian Bach date from 1965. The chancel was redesigned in 1984/85. In the course of this, the church received, among other things, a new altar by Wolfgang Herrmann and an oak door to the community center. On it are made of cast aluminum representations of creation , the fall of man , of Cain and Abel , Christmas, the crucifixion and the good Samaritan , which, like a relief at the baptismal font, were designed by Pastor Friedrich Preyer. The three bells of St. John's Church bear the inscriptions “Faith”, “Hope” and “Love”.

history

The parish of Liesing located in the church belongs to the Evangelical Superintendentur AB Vienna . It goes back to a preaching station founded in 1914 by the Evangelical Lutheran congregation in Mödling , whose services were initially held in the town hall in today's Liesing office building . In 1920 the preaching station was converted into an independent parish.

In 1929 the parish acquired the land to build the Johanneskirche, the foundation stone of which was laid in 1930. The plans for the church originally came from city architect Fritz Sobotka. However, the planned architecture appeared to the Oberkirchenrat as too conventional and the dimensions of the church too expensive, whereupon in 1933 the Protestant architect Henry Lutz took over the construction management and fundamentally revised the building plans. St. John's Church was consecrated on September 8, 1935. In a bomb attack in late 1944, a railroad track from the nearby Vienna Liesing train station was thrown through the roof of the church. In 1945 there was further bomb damage. Reconstruction began in 1946. The last bomb craters near the church were removed in 1967. In 1985 a community center was added to the church building according to plans by the architect Egon Bruckmann.

literature

• Alexander Hanisch-Wolfram: 70 years Johanneskirche - 85 years parish AB Liesing. Festschrift for the 70th anniversary of the Johanneskirche in Vienna-Liesing . Evangelical Parish AB Wien-Liesing, Vienna 2005.

Web links

Commons : Johanneskirche Wien-Liesing  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Evangelical parish AB Liesing

Individual evidence

1. ^ Yearbook of the Society for the History of Protestantism in Austria 2006 . ANNO - AustriaN Newspapers Online , pp. 145ff.

Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 22.5 ″  N , 16 ° 16 ′ 54.4 ″  E