Joseph's Chapel (Hofburg)

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The Joseph Chapel (colloquially mostly called the Chamber Chapel , formerly Michaelskapelle ) in Vienna is a chapel of the Hofburg and a former house chapel of the Habsburgs . It was occasionally used by the imperial court and castle parish .

location

Leopoldine wing of the Hofburg; the five windows of the Joseph Chapel are slightly higher than the windows in the other rooms.

The Joseph Chapel is located at the west end of the Leopoldine wing , which today houses the office of the Federal President . From Heldenplatz , the location of Joseph's Chapel can be seen through five of its upper windows, which are a few panes higher than the windows in the other rooms. The entrance to the oratory of the small church, which is several stories high, is next to Bellaria , in the area of ​​the presidential office and is not open to the public.

history

Altarpiece of the Joseph Chapel

The chapel was completely renewed by Maria Theresa in 1772 and replaced the missing side chapel of the Gothic court chapel located in the Swiss wing of the Hofburg at major festivals, for example at the burial on Good Friday .

The original altarpiece “Death of St. Joseph ”by Carlo Maratti was praised as particularly beautiful in the chronicles. On the occasion of the silver wedding of Emperor Franz Joseph and Elisabeth (called Sisi) it was replaced by a three-part painting by Hans Canon , donated by their children ( Crown Prince Rudolf , Gisela and Marie Valerie ) , which unites the portraits of the imperial family in allegorical representations .

On January 18, 1865, Duke Philipp von Württemberg married Archduchess Marie Therese , daughter of Field Marshal Archduke Albrecht, in the Joseph Chapel of the Vienna Hofburg . The coffin of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico , who was shot near Santiago de Querétaro , was also laid out in the Joseph Chapel in January 1868 .

The wall paintings come from, among others, the Austrian baroque painter Franz Anton Maulbertsch .

Web links

Commons : Joseph's Chapel  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Die Zeit: The Maximilian Files , accessed on August 10, 2015

Coordinates: 48 ° 12 '27.78 "  N , 16 ° 21' 50.25"  E