Katharina-von-Siena-Church (Vienna)

Catherine of Siena Church

The Katharina-von-Siena-Kirche is a Roman Catholic branch church at Kundratstrasse 5 in Vienna - Favoriten .

history

Following the decades-long tradition of emergency and barrack churches , mainly carried by Prelate Josef Gorbach , the unusual approach of a mobile church building was developed in the 1960s with architect Ottokar Uhl . These should be able to be assembled and dismantled several times and should last 40 years with low maintenance costs. The intention was to be able to react flexibly to the fluctuations of the modern urban population.

The church planned and built by Uhl from 1966 to 1967 on the basis of a laminated timber construction with a square floor plan became the permanent solution.

In 1988 the dismantled Holy Cross Church and subsidiary church of the parish church Maria vom Berge Karmel was raised to the status of a parish church and consecrated to the patronage of St. Catherine of Siena . On November 1st, 2015 the parish was abolished. The church is now a subsidiary of the Divine Mercy parish.

literature

• Ann Katrin Bäumler and Andreas Zeese: Church building in Vienna after 1945: From Rudolf Schwarz to Heinz Tesar , Vienna University of Technology, Vienna Art History Department 2007, page 33f.

Web links

Commons : Katharina-von-Siena-Kirche (Vienna)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Homepage of the parish of Catherine of Siena

Individual evidence

1. ↑ nextroom architecture database Bernhard Steger: Basically progressive , September 15, 2007, the preliminary project as an assembly church was the St. Rafael pastoral care station
2. ↑ Parish Maria vom Berge Karmel ( Memento of the original dated November 16, 2009 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. Chronicle of the parish Maria vom Berge Karmel, see: Filialkirche Heilig Kreuz 1967 to 1987 

Coordinates: 48 ° 10 ′ 29 "  N , 16 ° 20 ′ 57.7"  E