Parish Church of St. John the Evangelist (Vienna)

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Parish Church of St. John the Evangelist in Vienna-Favoriten
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The Roman Catholic Church of St. John the Evangelist , colloquially St. John's Church or Kepler church called, stands at the Kepler space in the 10th Vienna district favorites . It belongs to the City Deanery 10 in the Vicariate Vienna City of the Archdiocese of Vienna and is a listed building . The church is dedicated to the apostle and evangelist John . The patronage of the Church, the feast of St. Johannes on December 27th is also Johannes Kepler's birthday .

location

The church was built as a solitary building and is centrally located on Keplerplatz, which is open to Favoritenstrasse .

The church can be reached by public transport: In the Favoritenstraße, the tram line 67 and 167 , which started at the State Opera and was replaced here in 1978 by the U1 line , operated as a north-south connection, in the Gudrunstraße tram line 6 ran as a west-east connection until 1969 -Connection, which was then replaced in this section by bus line 14A.

history

Favoriten emerged as a suburb of Vienna in the 19th century. The district, which was incorporated into Vienna in 1850, initially divided along Laxenburger Strasse between the 4th (east) and 5th (west) district and constituted as the new 10th district in 1874, recorded an enormous number of workers, including the so-called brick Bohemia Growth of population.

It was the first church to be built in Favoriten - only the churches in the Oberlaa and Unterlaa districts that were later incorporated are older. 1872, the foundation stone was laid and 1876 by the architect Hermann Bergmann church built by Archbishop Johann Rudolf Kutschker ordained . For around 25 years it remained the only church in Favoriten, the parish area at times comprised around 100,000 Catholics. It was not until 1902 that the larger Anton Church was consecrated as the second church in the district.

The church was badly damaged in World War II in 1944/1945 by grenades and bombs striking all around . The renovation took place in the following years. In the course of the underground construction in the 1970s (the Keplerplatz station opened in 1978), the park around the church was redesigned.

Exactly behind the church is at the address Keplerplatz 6, the rectory of the church, which was built in exposed brick in the last decades of the 19th century, flanked by a building part of the municipal district office (No. 5) and a city school (No. 7).

Since June 1, 2015, the church has been the parish church of the newly created parish of Zum Divine Word . This also includes the Church of the Holy Family in Favoriten and the Trinity Church as subsidiary churches. The newly formed parish is looked after by a pastoral care team consisting of a pastor, three priests, a deacon and a pastoral assistant. All the clergy belong to the Congregation of the Steyler Missionaries .

Building description

The church is a three-aisled pillar basilica that was built in the neo-renaissance style. It is 52 meters long, the nave is 18 meters high, the two towers with pyramid roofs are each 50 meters high.

organ

View of the organ

The organ was built in 1968 by the organ builder Rudolf Novak . The instrument has 28 stops on two manuals and a pedal . The playing and stop actions are electro-pneumatic.

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Quintatön 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Gemshorn 8th'
4th Covered 8th'
5. Octave 4 ′
6th Reed flute 4 ′
7th Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
8th. Super octave 2 ′
9. mixture 2 ′
10. Trumpet 8th'
II breastwork C – g 3
11. Italian principal 8th'
12. Reed flute 8th'
13. Salicional 8th'
14th Principal 4 ′
15th flute 4 ′
16. Sesquialtera 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
17th Schwiegel 2 ′
18th Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
19th cymbal 1'
20th oboe 8th'
Pedals C – f 1
21st Principal bass 16 ′
22nd Sub-bass 16 ′
23. Octave bass 8th'
24. Bass flute 8th'
25th Fifth bass 5 1 ⁄ 3  ′
26th Chorale bass 4 ′
27. Chorale flute 4 ′
28. trombone 16 ′

Web links

Commons : Johannes-Evangelist-Kirche  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archdiocese of Vienna starts first “New Parish” , orf.at of May 29, 2015.
  2. ↑ Information on the organ

Coordinates: 48 ° 10 ′ 43 "  N , 16 ° 22 ′ 32"  E