Kagran parish church

Catholic parish church of St. Georg in Vienna-Kagran

Main entrance on St.-Wendelin-Platz

The Kagran parish church , consecrated to St. George , is a Roman Catholic parish church in the district of Kagran in the 22nd district of  Vienna, Donaustadt . The building is a listed building and is considered the oldest building in Vienna on the other side of the Danube . It is the main church of the St. Georg parish , which is the oldest still existing parish in Vienna today. The parish is in Stadtdekanat 22 of the Vienna Archdiocese belonging city Vicariate Vienna incorporated.

Location description

The Kagran parish church is located near the Kagraner Platz traffic junction and the subway station of the same name . The Kagran cemetery is about 700 meters northeast of the church.

history

The church was probably built in the 12th century and was originally dedicated to St. Consecrated to Wendelin . When in 1438 (some sources give an earlier date) the neighboring town of Stadlau and its St. Georg church were destroyed by a flood, Kagran took over the parish rights in Stadlau and the patronage of St. George .

In the middle of the 15th century, Kagran was the main parish for the surrounding villages of Eipeldau , Strebersdorf , Gerasdorf , Deutsch-Wagram , Jedlesee and Jedlersdorf , which, however, over time received their own parishes or were parished elsewhere. The last two parishes to be marked out were Stadlau (1934) and Hirschstetten (1953).

The church can be traced back to the 15th century as a single-nave village church. The Gothic choir was built in 1438 and the nave was extended in 1642 . The core of the tower with the local stone structure is also Gothic, the bell storey and pointed helmet are from the 17th century. The church was devastated in the course of the second Turkish siege of Vienna in 1683, and it was also badly damaged by two fires in the 18th century.

The cemetery surrounding the church received an extension in 1737, which was fenced in. An ice rush damaged the church in 1830 and destroyed the cemetery morgue built in 1811. The churchyard was closed in 1887 in the course of the construction of the nearby Kagran cemetery , but it was not closed until 1902 and converted into a forecourt.

In the 1960s and 1970s, the parishes of the Resurrection of Christ , Kagraner Anger , Neukagran and St. Christoph am Rennbahnweg were detached from the Kagran parish . On July 17, 1990, the dilapidated organ gallery collapsed after the organ had previously been demolished. Afterwards the church was completely renovated and a new gallery was built and on November 21, 1992 the ceremonial reopening took place. The current pastor has been Georg Pauser since 1989.

literature

Interior of the parish church

• Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria: Vienna. X. to XIX. and XXI. to XXIII district. XXII. District. Kagran parish church of St. George. Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.), Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-7031-0693-X , pages 657f.
• Georg Johannes Pauser: The history of the parish and church St. Georg-Kagran . Dissertation, Vienna 1994 ( online version, DOC file )

Web links

Commons : Kagraner Pfarrkirche  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Parish Kagran
• Planet Vienna - Church of St. Georg zu Kagran

Individual evidence

1. ^ Vienna - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. ( Memento from June 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) . Federal Monuments Office , as of June 21, 2016 (PDF).
2. ↑ Planet Vienna - Church of St. Georg zu Kagran ( Memento of the original from December 1, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ^ History of the parish
4. ↑ Stadlau parish - a flood destroys the village ( memento of the original from October 20, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ Stadlau parish - The new large parish St. Georg, Kagran ( Memento of the original from October 20, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ↑ Pastor Dr. Georg Pauser - About me

Coordinates: 48 ° 14 ′ 57.9 "  N , 16 ° 26 ′ 32.4"  E