Poor Clares Adoration Church (Vienna)

Poor Clares Adoration Church in Vienna

inside view

The Adoration Church of the Poor Clares is a Roman Catholic church in the 5th district of Margareten in Vienna .

The church was built as a simple neo-renaissance hall church with a gable facade in association with the worship monastery in the street front of Gartengasse 4 from 1909 to 1911 according to the plans of the architect Josef Schmalzhofer . In 1939 the church was elevated to a parish church.

The three-axis main portal facade with a round arched column portal has round arched windows with triangular gable roofs, above them Oculi windows and ends with a multiple curved main gable. The hall room has a grooved flat ceiling where the windows and blinds cut into the throat. The triumphal arch, like the entrance portal, has set columns. Above the vestibule is the organ gallery on Tuscan columns.

The wall paintings are by the painter Josef Kastner the Younger from 1912. Josef Kugler painted the Stations of the Cross from 1945 to 1947. The organ was built in 1957 by Josef Huber and has 12 stops on two manuals and a pedal .

The adjoining worship monastery is also three-story in neo-renaissance forms.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Martin Wadsack: The organs of the 5th Viennese district. Historical documentation and current inventory with special consideration of organ pedagogical aspects. Vienna 2015, p. 33.

literature

• Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria: Vienna. II. To IX. and XX. District, V. District Margareten, churches, Poor Clares Church. Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-7031-0680-8 , pp. 209f.

Web links

• Poor Clares Adoration Monastery, Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration Vienna
• Photos of the Church of Adoration

Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 19.9 ″  N , 16 ° 21 ′ 35.6 ″  E