Lichtentaler parish church

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The Lichtentaler parish church
View of the high altar with the altarpiece by Franz Anton Zoller
The interior of the church

The lichtental church to the holy Fourteen Holy Helpers , also Schubertkirche called, is a Roman Catholic parish church in Vienna's Lichtental , the 9th Viennese district of Alsergrund .

history

After the founding of the Lichtental suburb at the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries, the services there had to be held in the local brewery . In 1712, however, the Annenkapelle was built in the middle of the new settlement and in the same year Charles VI. also the foundation for a real church. The costs of the new building were borne by a brotherhood and the landlord. Presumably according to plans by Johann Lucas von Hildebrandt and Andrea Pozzo , a shell was initially built, and the first high mass took place in it in 1714 .

In 1723 Lichtental was separated from the parish of the Währing parish church and raised to its own parish, which in addition to Lichtental itself also included the suburbs of Himmelpfortgrund , Althangrund and Thurygrund . The first pastor was Dr. Carl de Giorgio from Laibach .

It was not until 1730 that the church was finished to the point that it could be consecrated to the fourteen helpers in need . In 1738 she got a new organ . However, the parish church could no longer accommodate the rapidly growing population. Therefore, after the rectory was built from 1763 to 1766, work was done to expand it. With the purchase of two adjacent properties, the building could be extended to today's Wiesengasse. The plans for this came from the princely master mason Joseph Ritter, the high altar was designed by the court architect Ferdinand von Hohenberg .

In 1769 the extension was started; in 1773, on the 50th anniversary of the parish, it was finished. Franz Zoller , member of the k. k. Academy of Fine Arts, created the high altar painting for the parish church in 1776 , which shows the 14 helpers to whom it is consecrated. Zoller had designed it together with his cousin, Pastor Zacharias Zoller. A flaw in the church was for a long time the unfinished north tower. It could not be completed until 1827.

The dead of the Lichtental parish were originally buried in the Währing local cemetery, today's Schubertpark . In 1713, however, it got its own cemetery, which was between Nussdorfer Strasse, Nussgasse, Vereinsstiege and Rufgasse.

In 1939 the parish Canisius Church was separated from Lichtental.

In 2006 the chancel was redesigned, in which a people's altar and ambo were installed according to plans by the architect Johann Traupmann.

The church also gained importance through Franz Schubert , whose birthplace is in the Lichtental parish. In 1797 Schubert was baptized in the Lichtental parish church. He created many of his sacred works especially for them or performed them here for the first time. The church is therefore also known as the Schubert Church .

organ

The organ (so-called "Schubert organ") was built in 1984 by the Upper Austrian organ building institute St. Florian . The organ case comes from the previous organ ; it was created in 1774 by the organ builder Johann Michael Panzner (Vienna). The slider chest instrument has 26 stops on two manuals and pedal . The playing and stop actions are mechanical.

View of the organ
I main work C – f 3
1. Principal 8th'
2. Octave 4 ′
3. Quint 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
4th Super octave 2 ′
5. Terzian II 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
6th Mixture major IV – VI 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
7th Mixture minor IV – V 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
8th. flute 8th' O
9. flute 4 ′ O
10. Viola gamba 8th'
11. Quintatön 8th'
II parapet positive C – f 3
12. Covered 8th' O
13. Principal 4 ′
14th Covered flute 4 ′
15th Dulziana 4 ′
16. Octave 2 ′
17th Quint 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
18th Mixture III-IV 1'
19th oboe 8th'
Pedals C – f 1
20th Violon bass 16 ′ H
21st Sub bass 16 ′ H
22nd Principal bass 8th'
23. Octave bass 8th' H
24. Soprano bass 4 ′
25th Cornett III 4 ′
26th trombone 16 ′
  • Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
  • Remarks:
O = original register from 1774
H = 19th century register

literature

  • Erich Benedikt : Franz Schubert and the parish church Lichtental. Verlag St. Peter, Salzburg 1997, ISBN 3-900173-61-3 .
  • Erich Benedikt: The music manuscripts of the parish archive Vienna-Lichtental. Verlag Der Apfel, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-85450-222-2 .
  • Alfred Wolf : Alsergrund Chronicle. From Roman times to the end of the monarchy. Self-published, Vienna 1981.
  • Wilhelm Georg Rizzi: On the building history of the church to the fourteen helpers in the light valley. Phoibos-Verlag, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-901232-03-6 , pages 219-244.

Web links

Commons : Lichtentaler Pfarrkirche  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lichtental parish: history ; accessed on March 11, 2018
  2. ↑ Information on the organ at Organindex

Coordinates: 48 ° 13 ′ 38 ″  N , 16 ° 21 ′ 27 ″  E