Laimgrubenkirche
The Laimgrubenkirche (actually: Church of St. Josef ob der Laimgrube , also: Parish Church Mariahilf-St. Josef ) is a Catholic church in Vienna's 6th district Mariahilf at the address Windmühlgasse 3. The current neo-baroque church building from 1906 is a replica of the 1907 demolished baroque building on Mariahilfer Strasse .
history
In 1343 Duke Albrecht II founded a chapel in the Laimgrube and in 1349 a supply house for needy aristocratic widows, which he moved to a monastery for the sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis converted. The monastery and church were named St. Theobald (also St. Diepold ). In 1451 the sisters moved to a house next to the Minorites in the inner city .
In the same year 1451 Friedrich III handed over . the monastery to the Franciscans , who took possession of it under Johannes Capistranus . After a few extensions, the monastery was able to accommodate 200 friars. The monastery and church were completely destroyed on September 25, 1529 during the first Turkish siege .
The land was sold in 1582, and windmills were built in its place in the area of today's Windmühlgasse, which also gave the former community of Windmühle its name .
The councilor Ulrich Khertenkhalch and his wife Anna Marie built a chapel dedicated to St. Theobald, who handed them over to the Carmelites in 1667 . From 1673 (according to some sources in 1637) they built a new monastery building and the church of St. Josef in the area of today's Mariahilfer Straße 27. The buildings were destroyed shortly afterwards in 1683 during the second Turkish siege .
In 1687 the Carmelites began building a new monastery and a new church, St. Josef ob der Laimgrube , which was dedicated to St. Josef was consecrated in 1692. In 1783 she was raised to a parish.
In the following year 1784 the monastery was abolished in the course of the Josephine monastery reform and in 1804 it was converted into an educational institution for young nobles. In 1867 the building was thoroughly renovated, from 1881–1905 it was a police prison (which was then moved to the police building at Rossauer Lände ).
Since the monastery church was an obstacle to traffic during the expansion of Mariahilfer Strasse and because the building site on the street promised large profits to speculators, it was decided to demolish it in 1904. First, in 1905, the monastery was demolished. Then from 1906–1907 a new Baroque replica of the Laimgrubenkirche was built in the neighboring Windmühlgasse, and the old church was demolished in 1907. This year the two churches stood briefly one behind the other. The baroque furnishings , especially the high altar painting “St. Josef ”by Joseph Schönmann (1866) was largely transferred to the new church.
Web links
- Parish St. Josef - An outline of the history of our parish
- Felix Czeike, Helga Czeike: Vienna: Art, culture and history of the Danube metropolis . DuMont Reiseverlag, 1999, p. 266 in the Google book search
Evangelical Churches AB: Gustav-Adolf-Church (Lutherplatz)
Evangelical Free Churches: Baptist Church (Mollardgasse)
Roman Catholic Churches and chapels: Gumpendorfer Church (Brückengasse) | Laimgrubenkirche (Windmühlgasse) | Mariahilfer Church (Mariahilfer Strasse)
Islamic mosques and centers: Islamic Center Imam Ali (Mollardgasse) | Yeni Ayasofya Camii Mosque (Hofmühlgasse)
Disused religious buildings: Association synagogue (Stumpergasse)
Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 0.4 ″ N , 16 ° 21 ′ 30.1 ″ E