Kandl Chapel
The Kandl Chapel is located on Breitenfurter Straße in the 23rd district of Liesing in Vienna . The chapel is under monument protection ( list entry ).
history
The reason for the construction of the Kandl Chapel was the murder of Matthias Kandl, a grocer in Wieden at the beginning of the 19th century. At first, robbery was suspected. His wife Theresia (daughter of Stephan Teppich or Töbich, born on June 10, 1785 in Atzgersdorf ) was identified as the actual perpetrator . She had killed her husband with a hoe and carried his body hidden in a flounder to the Piarist Church in Vienna to be free for her lover, the son of a butcher from Mauer . On March 13, 1809, Theresia Kandl was sentenced to death and, on March 16 of the same year, was the first woman in Vienna to be hung on the New Vienna Gallows near the Spinner on the Cross . At the same time she was the last woman to be judged there.
In memory of Theresia Kandl, the chapel was built in her home town of Atzgersdorf at the beginning of the 19th century. The chapel originally stood on the corner of Breitenfurter Strasse and Hödlgasse. Since the building, also known as the Kandl Cross, developed into a traffic obstacle at this location, it was moved to its current location in 1963, where it is integrated into the fencing of the Vienna South campsite.
description
The triangular floor plan of the chapel, built in the late classical style, is intended as a reference to the Holy Trinity. The main front is structured with pilasters.
In the large arched niche there was originally a wooden cross with a representation of the Holy Trinity. This was stolen a few years ago and replaced with a new cross. One of the numerous depictions of Johannes Nepomuk in Vienna is located in the upper arched niche .
literature
- Rudolf Spitzer: Liesing - preserving the old, creating the new , Mohl Verlag, 1994, ISBN 3-900272-50-6
Web links
- The Kandl Chapel: Historical Surprises ( Memento from May 31, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ^ Atzgersdorf parish baptismal register, vol. 3, p. 410
- ^ Rudolf Spitzer: Liesing ...
- ^ Rudolf Spitzer: Liesing ...
Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 58.1 ″ N , 16 ° 17 ′ 57.8 ″ E