Döbling Carmelite Monastery

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Carmelite Monastery

The Carmelite Monastery Döbling is a Carmelite monastery with a neighboring Roman Catholic Church in the Unterdöbling district in the 19th district of Döbling .

History of the monastery

A monastery of the Discalced Carmelites was first founded in Austria on February 4, 1622 in Leopoldstadt near Vienna (see Carmelite Church Leopoldstadt ). This was made possible by Emperor Ferdinand II and his wife Eleonora . After Joseph II had abolished the Carmelite convent along with many others in 1783, the religious community was only able to maintain itself as a Carmelite parish until 1838. After that, the parish also passed to the secular clergy. While the monastery building was later demolished, the former monastery church still serves as a parish church.

It was not until the end of the 19th century that the order found a new home in Döbling. In the Silbergasse 35 in Unterdöbling, the current monastery with the new Church of the Holy Family was built between 1898 and 1901 with funds from the state religious fund .

Church building

Church with a double tower facade

The monastery and church were built from 1898 according to plans by Richard Jordan . It is consecrated to the Holy Family . The church itself is a mighty basilica made of exposed brick with a three-aisled, four-bay nave (40 meters long, 20 meters wide) and a double tower facade. Jordan mainly used Romanesque styles as structural elements. The interior is particularly impressive with elements from Art Nouveau and Art Déco . In addition to the high altar, the six side altars and the Theresienkapelle, the church has a pulpit made by Ludwig Schadler from Carrara marble and showing the four Latin church teachers . Pope Gregory I is with the features of the then reigning Pope Leo XIII. shown.

High altar

Above the high altar of the church there is a large mural depicting angels and saints around the Holy Family. It comes from Josef Kastner , who also decorated the nave with scenes from the life of the Holy Family. The high altar itself was designed by Ludwig Schadler and shows the four Greek teachers of the church, behind them a crucifixion group .

Side altars

The Carmelite Church has a total of six side altars, the description here is clockwise starting from the left front.

The altar of grace

The side altar of Mary with the inclined head

The most important side altar is the so-called Mercy Altar of Mary with the inclined head . The altar was made from Untersberg marble by the company Marmorindustrie Kiefer AG from Oberalm in 1904 based on a drawing by Richard Jordan . The miraculous image is located on a niche altar modeled on the Romanesque and is flanked by two angels in relief and the banner Ave Maria, gratia plena . The story of the miraculous image is depicted on an arch around the altar. The image of grace is an oil painting in the format 45 × 60 cm. It comes from an unknown master of the Italian school from the 15th / 16th centuries. Century. It shows the Mother of God in a bust with a slightly bowed head, who was crowned in 1931 . According to tradition, the picture was discovered by Father Dominicus in 1609 near the first Carmelite monastery in Trastevere ( Rome ) in an old building under rubble. The picture was restored and came to the court of Munich , later Vienna. There it was venerated by the Carmelites , and Emperor Ferdinand II also prayed in front of the picture during the Battle of White Mountain in 1620. Ferdinand later attributed the victory of the Catholic troops to Mary's help. During the First World War , the picture was carried in large processions through the streets of Vienna to St. Stephen's Cathedral . Thousands prayed for peace before him. Emperor Franz Joseph also trusted Mary's help with this picture and had the picture brought to Schönbrunn for a prayer for peace .

Child Jesus Altar

Opposite the altar of grace is the altar of the child Jesus. Like the altar of grace, it was made from Untersberg marble in 1904. Above the altar there is a copy of a wooden Jesus child from the 18th century, which the Carmelites owned in their former hermitage in Mannersdorf . This in turn was carved after the famous model of the Infant Jesus of Prague .

Christ the King altar

The Christ the King altar is to the right of the Infant Jesus altar and was created in 1922 by the architect of the church, Richard Jordan, in Art Deco style from majolica and marble. It illustrates the major change in style that the architect made within 20 years.

Theresen altar

To the right of the Christ the King altar is the Therese altar. It was donated by the family of the Unterdöblinger industrialist Johann Zacherl and shows the transfiguration of the Lord on Mount Tabor . It was created by the artists involved in the Johannes altar opposite.

St. John's Altar

Opposite the Theresen altar is the Johannes altar. Like the Therese altar, it was donated by the Zacherl family, shows a vision of St. John of the Cross and was designed by the Dutch Benedictine Father Willibrord Verkade in 1913–1914 . The marble altar table with a cross and chandeliers, on the other hand, was designed by the Slovenian architect Jože Plečnik . Verkade also designed the stained glass windows above the altar.

Joseph Altar

The Joseph altar is located between the Johannes altar and the altar of grace.

Theresienkapelle

In the Theresienkapelle lies the grave of the Spanish Carmelite Father Dominicus a Jesu Maria , who was involved in the founding of the monastery in Leopoldstadt in 1622. He also brought the miraculous image of Mary to Vienna. His body was brought to Döbling in 1903 from the former Carmelite Church in the 2nd district. Behind the grave is a white marble altar with a figure of the Carmelite Theresa von Lisieux, who was canonized in 1925 . The Carmelite crypt, accessible from the chapel, was also used between 1917 and 1932 for the remains of relatives of Empress Zita . The latter had the coffins brought to Vienna from the Kostanjevica Monastery near Gorizia , as they feared damage as a result of the war. Among the coffins was that of the French King Charles X.

In 1935 Princess Maria Theresia zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg (1870–1935), the widowed wife of the Portuguese pretender to the throne and former field marshal lieutenant in the Austro-Hungarian army, Duke Michael von Braganza, was buried there .

organ

organ

The organ from the Rieger company from Jägerndorf was inaugurated in 1905. It has 30 sounding registers on 2 manuals and pedal . The work is located in a neo-Gothic case, which is built on both sides of the gallery rosette .

Bells

The ringing in the two towers consists of 6 bells.

No. volume Weight Caster Casting year
I. of 1952 kg Bell foundry St. Florian 1958
II f´ 999 kg Bell foundry St. Florian 1958
III as' 607 kg Bell foundry St. Florian 1958
IV b´ 403 kg Bell foundry St. Florian 1958
V of 256 kg Bell foundry St. Florian 1958
VI f´´ 105 kg Samassa bell foundry 1922

Trivia

The Unterdöblinger parish church is at an altitude of approx. 201  m a little higher than the Oberdöbling parish church (approx. 195  m ).

literature

  • Raimund Bruderhofer: Monastery and pilgrimage church of the Carmelites to the Holy Family. Miraculous image of Mary with the bowed head Vienna-Döbling. Carmelite Convent, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-901797-28-6 .
  • Christine Klusacek, Kurt Stimmer: Döbling. From the belt to the vineyards. Compress-Verlag, Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-900607-06-0 .
  • Godehard Schwarz: Döbling. Ten cultural and historical walks through Vienna's 19th district. Unterdöbling, Oberdöbling, the cottage district, Grinzing, Sievering, Heiligenstadt, Nussdorf, Neustift am Walde and Salmannsdorf, Cobenzl and Kahlenberg, Leopoldsberg and Kahlenbergerdorf. Association of Wiener Volksbildung, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-900799-56-3 .
  • Martin Stangl: Richard Jordan - sacred buildings. Vienna 1999 (Vienna, University, diploma thesis, 1999).

Web links

Commons : Karmeliterkirche Döbling  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Carmelite Convent Vienna , History
  2. ↑ Church number: 9181; Parish Döbling-St. Paul , erzdioezese-wien.at
  3. ↑ Geodata Viewer of the City Surveying Vienna

Coordinates: 48 ° 14 ′ 51 ″  N , 16 ° 20 ′ 59 ″  E