Mariahilfer Church

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The Mariahilfer Church
Image of grace "Mariahülf"

The Mariahilfer Church , also known as Barnabitenkirche and Haydn Church , is a Roman Catholic parish church in Vienna's 6th district Mariahilf on Mariahilfer Strasse , corner of Barnabitengasse .

history

The pilgrimage church "Assumption of Mary" was built in 1656 as a cemetery church for the cemetery of the Michaelerkirche. In 1660 the Barnabit Don Cölestin Joanelli donated the well-known miraculous image of Mariahilf . On April 19, 1660, Prince-Bishop Count Philipp Friedrich von Breuner consecrated the wooden cemetery chapel with the miraculous image, a copy of the original Lukas Cranach (in Innsbruck Cathedral). Since the miraculous image attracted many pilgrims, the Barnabites built a stone chapel and a residential building for religious priests instead in 1668/1669. Both buildings were destroyed in the second Turkish siege of Vienna in 1683. However, the sacred image was able to be brought to St. Michael in time by the sacristan within the Vienna city wall .

The church was rebuilt from 1686 to 1689 by Sebastian Carlone the Younger and the stonemason Ambrosius Ferrethi and consecrated on August 14, 1689 under Bishop Leopold Karl von Kollonitsch with the returned miraculous image. From 1711, the church was rebuilt in its current form by the master builder Franziskus Jänckl : In 1714 the choir sections were rebuilt and the nave built, in 1715 the towers of the west facade - facing today's Mariahilfer Strasse - were finished in shell, between 1721 and 1726 the towers were completed covered with copper and the west facade decorated with statues and reliefs. A new high altar was designed by Sebastian Haupt , built by the Salzburg stonemason Jakob Mösel and consecrated in 1758. In the years 1890-1893 the church was restored. 1894 she was awarded a new two-manual Kauffmann - organ .

The monument to Joseph Haydn (1732–1809) on the church square.

In the crypt of the church is since the winter of 1986/87 , the crypt - one in 1996 from the Caritas assisted day center for the homeless .

  • Interior view on altar

  • View of the organ

  • ceiling

  • Floor plan with picture description

Stained glass window

At the end of these restoration measures, eleven large windows with stained glass in the neo-baroque style were installed. The stained glass in the nave shows the birth of Christ (around 1897), Christ as Salvator Mundi and Saint Carl Borromeo (1893) on the left; on the right the flight into Egypt (1898), Saint Joseph with the child (1894), Anna with Maria, Saint Theresa and Saint Ignatius (1893); Saint Ludwig and Saint Barbara in the side aisles (around 1894); St. Augustine (around 1894) and St. Leopold (1956) in the choir ; on the gallery the mercy seat or the Trinity (around 1899).

The stained glass was done between 1893 and 1898 by Carl Geyling's heirs . In the Geyling archive you can find notes in the register that the architectures were made in 1894. According to the notes received, the artistic director, Professor Rudolf Geyling, provided the majority of the designs, namely for Saints Augustine, Barbara and angels, Joseph with the child, the birth of Christ and the Trinity. The remaining representations were partly new compositions, as the comparison of the designs of Saint Carolus in Mariahilf and Güns shows. After the Second World War , the windows were restored in 1956 and St. Leopold rebuilt .

  • " Flight to Egypt ", donated by Anna Radeiner and her daughter Amalia (1898)

  • " Saint Joseph with Child ", dedicated by Ferdinand and Amalia Edlinger (1894)

  • " Anna with Maria and Saint Theresa and Saint Ignatius ", dedicated by the Adam Kessler family (1893)

Others

In 1862 the Kirchengasse in Vienna- Neubau (7th district) was named after the Mariahilfer Church.

literature

  • Waldemar Posch: Sources and data on the history of the Mariahilfer Church. In: Viennese history sheets. 10, 1955, ISSN  0043-5317 , pp. 8-13.
  • Waldemar Posch: Mariahilf pilgrimage church, Vienna. The Mariahilfer Church in Vienna. 5th edition. Verlag St. Peter, Salzburg 2008 ( Christian Art Sites Austria 53, ZDB -ID 2182605-5 ).
  • Archive stained glass geyling
  • Notes by Rudolf Geyling
  • Dehio
  • Brief excerpt from the history of the Marian image of grace Mariahülf in the parish church of this name, in the suburb above the Laimgrube, of which over a hundred the fiftieth year since the translation of the same from the side to the present high altar, from September 4th to 11th of this year Year with the gracious permission of secular and spiritual authorities . Compiled from documents by a priest of the Congregation of Heil. Apostle Paul, commonly called Barnabites. Joseph Tendler, Vienna 1808 ( online in the Google book search).

Web links

Commons : Mariahilfer Kirche  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 56 "  N , 16 ° 21 ′ 11"  E