Catholic parish church Floridsdorf

Floridsdorf parish church

The Catholic parish church of Floridsdorf is located on Pius-Parsch-Platz in the 21st Viennese district of Floridsdorf in the city of Vienna . The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Josef belongs to the City Deanery 21 in the Vicariate Vienna City of the Archdiocese of Vienna . The building is a listed building .

Because the twelve apostles are depicted in the main facade with larger than life sculptures, the church is popularly known as the Twelve Apostles Church.

history

The St. Jakob Church , built in 1836, was a church of the canons of Klosterneuburg Abbey . It soon became too small due to the steady increase in the population of the place and was demolished in 1938 after the new building was built. The new church was built from 1936 to 1938 according to the plans of the architect Robert Kramreiter . The sacred building was badly damaged in the Second World War, but it was rebuilt and a complete interior renovation took place in 1955, and a general renovation took place from 1983 to 1985.

description

The church forms a main St. Joseph church , and to the left of it the St. Jakob chapel with the altar of the old church. A separate baptistery facing the forecourt divides the whole thing into three parts (apart from the underground crypt). While the main church and the chapel represent the old and new liturgy, the baptistery represents equality in diversity. The church rooms are separated by mosaic windows, but connected to them by light.

The main church has a wide central nave with a swinging south pore, low, pillar-free side aisles and a transverse rectangular chancel with side exits to the lower church. There are four sandstone apostles on three floors of the approximately 20 meter high church portal. They come from the sculptors Robert Ullmann , Franz Zorn and Franz Santifaller (Jakobus the Younger, Simon, Judas Thaddäus and Thomas). The stained glass windows destroyed in the war were replaced according to designs by the painter Karl Seelos . The slender tower with a concrete cross built on the east side has a viewing platform over 8 floating angel figures created by the sculptor Albert Bechtold .

Pius-Parsch-Platz

Pius-Parsch-Platz with the parish church of St. Joseph

The broken-down St. Jakob Church stood directly on Schlosshoferstrasse. The forecourt for the new parish church created with the demolition was named after Pius Parsch . Half of the square is open to Franz-Jonas-Platz, which makes the church visible from afar.

literature

Markus Bittner: From the village church to the big city parish . Parish chronicle, Lower Austrian Press House, St. Pölten 2001.

Web links

Commons : Pfarrkirche Floridsdorf - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Vienna - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. ( Memento from June 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) . Federal Monuments Office , as of June 21, 2016 (PDF).
^ ^A ^b Floridsdorfer Church (21, Pius-Parsch-Platz) in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna . Retrieved May 16, 2017
↑ Wolfgang Czerny, Peter Adam: Dehio-Handbuch : Die Kunstdenkmäler Österreichs: Wien: X. to XIX. and XXI. to XXIII. District A. Schroll & Co., Vienna, year?, S.?.

48.258527777778 16.399805555556Coordinates: 48 ° 15 ′ 30.7 " N , 16 ° 23 ′ 59.3" E

[1] Vienna - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. ( Memento from June 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) . Federal Monuments Office , as of June 21, 2016 (PDF).

[WGW-2] A ^b Floridsdorfer Church (21, Pius-Parsch-Platz) in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna . Retrieved May 16, 2017

[3] Wolfgang Czerny, Peter Adam: Dehio-Handbuch : Die Kunstdenkmäler Österreichs: Wien: X. to XIX. and XXI. to XXIII. District A. Schroll & Co., Vienna, year?, S.?.