Lazarist Church (Währing)

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Exterior view of the Lazarist Church
Interior view of the Lazarist Church

The Lazarist Church , also known as Severinkirche , is a Roman Catholic church building in the 18th district of Währing in Vienna . It is consecrated to St. Severin .

Location and architecture

The neo-Gothic hall church by architect Friedrich von Schmidt is located in a garden surrounded by a brick wall. It is located at the intersection of Kreuzgasse and Vinzenzgasse on Ganserlberg in the Währing district .

On its three-axis south facade with a large rose window , the Lazarist Church has two prominent church towers. In the north it is closed by a polygonal choir with a sacristy attached to the east with an oratory above . In between is the high three-axle nave , to which a chapel is attached to the left and right.

The furnishings are uniformly neo-Gothic. The free-standing high altar from 1878 has several figures of saints, including Saint Severin. The four evangelists are depicted in reliefs on the parapet of the pulpit . The organ from the Walcker-Mayer company from Guntramsdorf dates back to 1975. It has 28 registers on 2 manuals and a pedal .

history

A monastery was built in 1868/69 at Antonigasse 72 in Währing for the Austrian province of the Order of the Lazarians , which was founded in 1853 . The Antonigasse school center of the Archdiocese of Vienna is now located in this building, which has since been extended several times, and which also includes a neo-Gothic chapel dedicated to Saint Anne . In 1875 the Lazarists decided to have a religious church built on the neighboring property.

Friedrich von Schmidt, the architect of the Vienna City Hall , who had designed the Lazarist Church Immaculate Conception on Vienna's Schottenfeld around a decade and a half earlier, was commissioned to do this . The groundbreaking for the new church took place in 1876. The builder Josef Schmalzhofer was responsible for the construction . The construction management was held by the Schmidt student Richard Jordan . On October 20, 1878, the church was opened by Cardinal Johann Kutschker in honor of St. Severin, the apostle of Norikum , consecrated. In 1939, the Archbishop of Vienna, Cardinal Theodor Innitzer, raised the Lazarist Church to the rank of parish church , which has since housed the parish of St. Severin.

Air raids during World War II destroyed the rectory and parts of the church building in 1945. The church was restored from 1945 to 1950, while the parsonage was rebuilt in 1951/52 and equipped with a figure of Saint Severin by the artist Adolf Treberer-Treberspurg . The architect Ladislaus Hruska designed a war memorial chapel built in 1958. Under the direction of the architect Erwin Plevan , the interior of the church was slightly redesigned in 1978 and the entire Lazarist church was restored.

From September 1995 the parish of St. Severin was under the administration of Lazarists from the Polish order province. In October 1998 it was taken over by the Archdiocese of Vienna. Today St. Severin is one of five parishes in the city ​​dean's office 18 .

literature

  • Franz Gattringer: History of the Congregation of the Mission and the Sisters of Mercy in Austria-Hungary . Verlag der Missionsiester , Graz 1912
  • Johann Hödl: The Becoming of the Austrian Lazarist Province . Dissertation, University of Graz 1966
  • Eugen Schindler: Parish establishment in the Austrian Lazarist Province . Diploma thesis, University of Graz 1986

Web links

Commons : Lazaristenkirche (Währing)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Severinkirche in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna ; accessed on March 23, 2017
  2. ^ Dehio-Handbuch Wien. X. to XIX. and XXI. to XXIII. District . Edited by Federal Monuments Office. Anton Schroll, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-7031-0693-X , pp. 464-465

Coordinates: 48 ° 13 '31.7 "  N , 16 ° 20' 3.6"  E