Maria Namen Church (Vienna)

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Parish Church of Mary Name
Interior of the parish church of Maria Namen

The parish church Maria Namen is a Roman Catholic parish church in the 16th district of  Vienna Ottakring at Hasnerstraße 11.

history

The Klosterneuburg monastery parishly looked after the area of ​​today's Ottakring until 1848. The times of the development of the district were largely determined by housing shortages and misery, which was also evident in the lack of churches.

However, the number of Roman Catholic believers in the area fell sharply in the 20th century. This led to a reorganization of the parish boundaries: In 2013 the parish took over the area of ​​the then-abandoned Neulerchenfeld parish .

Emergency church Maria name

A 2584 square meter wood storage area at the corner of Hasnerstrasse and Hippgasse was bought on June 28, 1930 on the initiative of priest Josef Gorbach with the Feldkirch Press and Apostolic Association. A building permit procedure was already being planned with architect Hans Feszler from Innsbruck. However, the global economic crisis that had occurred in the meantime destroyed the financing. Together with master carpenter Ignaz Köck, the existing shed of the wood shop was insulated with Heraklith panels, creating an emergency church for 600 people. The site master's hut became the priest's apartment. On September 12, 1933, as part of the General German Catholic Day 1933 in Vienna, the emergency church Maria Namen was consecrated by the apostolic administrator for Tyrol and Vorarlberg, Bishop Sigismund Waitz . A crucifix by Peter Sellemond (body three meters in length), which had been carried in front of a group of Tyrolean costumes during celebrations on the Catholic Day, was given to the church Maria Namen. The Notkirche was a branch church of the Neulerchenfeld parish church and was raised to an independent parish church by the Viennese Cardinal Theodor Innitzer on January 1, 1939.

Parish Church of Mary Name

It was not until long after the Second World War that the Archdiocese of Vienna and Pastor Rudolf Hanzl was able to tackle the financing and planning and thus the construction of the church. According to the plans of architect Otto Nobis , the construction company Hofmann & Maculan began work on the church in 1972 and built a modern facade made of exposed concrete. The church was consecrated, again as part of an Austrian Catholic Day, on October 12, 1974 by Archbishop-Coadjutor Franz Jachym and Pastor Gottfried Pichler.

The crucifix and a Fatima statue for the weekday chapel were transferred from the emergency church. In 1974 the church received a statue of the Virgin Mary by the carver Johann Langthaler from Pierbach in the Mühlviertel. A free-standing tabernacle from 1976 is by Kodym from Eggendorf near Wiener Neustadt, whose gold-enamelled tabernacle doors were created by Edda Raymann. The mosaic window glazing (1978) comes from Carl Unger .

The ringing consists of four bells. They sound in the tones a´- h´- dis´´ - fis´´. All bells were cast in 1974 by the Perner bell foundry in Passau. The bells weigh 400 kg, 300 kg, 180 kg and 85 kg.

Web links

Commons : Church of Maria Namen (Vienna)  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Archdiocese of Vienna Church of Mary Name: Crucifix by Peter Sellemond: Exhibition object: World Exhibition Paris 1928.
  2. ↑ Maria name  ( page no longer available , searching web archives )  Info: The link is automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.marianamen.com   , Parish Maria Namen, program booklet Long Night of the Churches, pages 3 to 22, undated.

Coordinates: 48 ° 12 '26.9 "  N , 16 ° 20' 8.3"  E