Marchdamm Chapel

Marchdamm Chapel St. Florian

Side view of the Marchdamm Chapel

The Marchdamm Chapel is a chapel in Markthof in the Engelhartstetten municipality in the Gänserndorf district in Lower Austria.

The chapel was built in 1904/05 on the occasion of the completion of the Marchfeld-Schutzdamm , which had a construction period of 40 years. As part of the Danube regulation were on the Danube and at the mouth of the March dams to protect the Marchfeld built. The chapel is dedicated to St. Florian . The architects were Max Hegele and August Rehak . At the opening of the dam and the chapel on June 10, 1905, Emperor Franz Joseph I, Auxiliary Bishop Godfried Marschall and Erich von Kielmansegg as governor of Lower Austria spoke .

In the chapel, two text panels explain the dam and the chapel:

“Due to the protective dam built by the Danube Regulation Commission on the basis of the laws of June 6, 1882 and January 4, 1899 in the period from 1882 to 1904 at a cost of 16 million kroner, 35 will be protected from the floods of the Danube endangered communities of the Marchfeld protected "

- Text panel in the chapel

“This chapel was built by the Danube Regulation Commission and its building contractors to commemorate the completion of the Marchfeld protection dam envisaged in the Most Highly approved building program of 1882 and in honor of St. Florian the protector of natural disasters in the presence of His Imperial and Royal Majesty the Apostle Franz Josef des Erste inaugurated on June 10, 1905 "

- Text panel in the chapel

literature

• Evelyn Benesch, Bernd Euler-Rolle , Claudia Haas, Renate Holzschuh-Hofer, Wolfgang Huber, Katharina Packpfeifer, Eva Maria Vancsa-Tironiek, Wolfgang Vogg: Lower Austria north of the Danube (=  Dehio-Handbuch . Die Kunstdenkmäler Österreichs ). Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna et al. 1990, ISBN 3-7031-0652-2 , p. 724 .
• The Marchfeld protection dam. In:  Reichspost , June 11, 1905, p. 5 (online at ANNO ).

Web links

Commons : Marchdammkapelle Markthof  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Max Hegele. In: Architects Lexicon Vienna 1770–1945. Published by the Architekturzentrum Wien . Vienna 2007.
2. ↑ Max Hegele and August Rehak:  Chapel on Marchfeld-Schutzdamm. In:  Wiener Bauindustrie-Zeitung / Österreichische Bauzeitung , year 1906, p. 161 (online at ANNO ).

Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 26.3 "  N , 16 ° 57 ′ 47.9"  E