Kalasantine Church of St. Joseph

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Kalasantine Church of St. Joseph

The Kalasantinerkirche St. Joseph is a Roman Catholic parish church in the 14th Vienna district Penzing in Reinlgasse 25. It is the hl. Dedicated to Joseph , the foster father of Jesus .

history

The Church of St. Josef was consecrated in 1897 when the associated house of the order in Reinlgasse was opened as another branch of the Kalasantines . The first rector of the house was Father Wenzel Siman. In 1912 the church was enlarged and two more floors with a large theater were added to the one-story monastery building.

In 1935 St. Josef was raised to an independent parish, on whose territory over 24,000 people lived.

During the Nazi era , the house was confiscated with the exception of a few rooms; in addition, the deployment of the Kalasantines brought them many conflicts with the Nazi regime from 1938 onwards. The then pastor P. Heinrich Wagner was arrested several times by the Gestapo , Dr. Jakob Kastelic, lay leader of the Kalasantine associations, was executed in 1944 after four years in a concentration camp .

On April 5, 1945, the church was badly damaged by a bomb , but was consecrated a year later as the first church to be rebuilt after the Second World War .

Between 1975 and 1984 the monastery building in Reinlgasse also housed the novitiate and clergy of the Kalasantine order. In the mid-1980s, the Kalasantinerkirche St. Josef received its organ built by Friedrich Heftner , which has two manuals and a pedal . From 1995 to 1997 the church was renovated and redesigned.

organ

Look at the choir
Interior with a view of the organ

The organ was built in 1984 by the organ builder Friedrich Heftner. The slider chest instrument has 13 stops on two manuals and a pedal . The playing and stop actions are mechanical.

I main work C – f 3
1. Principal 8th'
2. Reed flute 8th'
3. octave 4 ′
4th recorder 4 ′
5. Schwiegel 2 ′
6th mixture 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
II breastwork C – f 3
7th Covered 8th'
8th. flute 4 ′
9. Principal 2 ′
10. Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
11. Piccolo 1'
Pedals C – f 1
12. Sub-bass 16 ′
13. Octave bass 8th'

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d history of the parish of St. Josef on their website
  2. ↑ a b c History of the Kalasantin Church of St. Joseph, document issued inside the church to the right of the main entrance
  3. ↑ Information on the organ

Web links

Commons : Kalasantinerkirche St. Josef  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 50.9 ″  N , 16 ° 18 ′ 42.9 ″  E