Kreuzkirche (Penzing)

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Kreuzkirche in Penzing

The Kreuzkirche is an Evangelical Lutheran church building in the 14th district of Penzing in Vienna .

Location and architecture

The Kreuzkirche is located at Cumberlandstrasse 48 in the Penzing district in a loosely built-up area south of the Westbahn . The main work by the architect Theophil Niemann , built from 1930 to 1931, has a symmetrically designed front facade. On the central risalit with a gable is a gable rider with a small bell. The facade is characterized by triangular shapes with neo-Gothic echoes.

The interior design of the church is essentially the work of Erwin Schneider, the pastor when it was built. Martin Luther , Philipp Melanchthon and Johann Sebastian Bach , among others , are depicted on the church windows made to designs by Schneider . Two wall paintings are copies of Albrecht Dürer's The Four Apostles . On the pulpit there are carved depictions of the evangelists by Ferdinand Opitz .

In the Protestant church in Austria in the First Republic, the listed Cross Church together with the Transfiguration and the Zwinglikirche the culmination of the development is to abandon traditional church architectural outline principles and functionality give a high priority.

history

The parish of Hietzing, located in the church, belongs to the Evangelical Superintendentur AB Vienna . The parish is still named after Hietzing, although its parish church has been in the 14th district of Penzing since 1938 and no longer in the 13th district of Hietzing . In today's district of Hietzing, at 9 Hügelgasse, the parish has a parish hall where many of its events take place. The area of ​​the parish extends over parts of the 13th, 14th and 15th parish districts.

The property at 48 Cumberlandstrasse was acquired in 1913 and a preaching hall was inaugurated there the following year. The architect Theophil Niemann, who was commissioned to plan and build the Kreuzkirche in 1930/31, was himself a Protestant and lived in the 13th district. From 1934 the former house organ of the composer Franz Schmidt was in the church. In 1997 a new organ was installed and inaugurated by the organist Norbert Zeilberger , who worked here from 1994 to 2006 . The Lainz parish in the Evangelical Peace Church, which became independent in 1961, was founded in 1957 as a subsidiary of the Hietzing parish.

Web links

Commons : Kreuzkirche Wien-Penzing  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Herbert Unterköfler: Between Two Worlds - Notes on the Cultural Identity of Evangelicals in Austria . In: Spiritual life in Austria during the First Republic . Edited by Isabella Ackerl . Oldenbourg, Munich 1986, ISBN 3486537318 , p. 357

Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 31.7 ″  N , 16 ° 18 ′ 0.8 ″  E