Marianneum

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Marianneum
Monastery church in Boërgasse

The Marianneum was a retreat and education center for the Lazarists with an attached Roman Catholic church in the Hetzendorf district of the 12th Viennese district of Meidling (Hetzendorfer Straße 117). It was sold by the Lazarists and will be converted into a residential building from 2019. The garden should remain.

history

In 1882 an association was founded for the debt-free expansion of an educational institution for poor girls in Hetzendorf , which acquired a piece of land and used it for the sisters of St. Vincent von Paul handed over. The sisters built a children's asylum there, which they named Marianneum , a compound made up of Maria and Anna , and a monastery church dedicated to St. Family is consecrated. On August 17, 1888, the church was given public rights. In 1918 the Lazarists finally took over the Marianneum and installed a juvenat (boys' seminar) here. It later became a mother-child home and a senior citizens' home, before it has served as a retreat and education center since 1988. In that year the church was also renovated and original wall paintings were restored.

Building description

The Marianneum's monastery chapel is located at Boërgasse 1, while the building of the Bildungshaus is located at 117 Hetzendorfer Straße on the corner with Boërgasse. The chapel was planned by the architect Ludwig Zatzka in the spirit of the Viennese cathedral builder Friedrich von Schmidt . It is designed in the neo-Gothic style as a raw brick building and is remarkable for the fact that it is still preserved in its original form inside.

The church with its five-axis facade lies along the street, the pointed arch portal is elevated by a cantilever . There is a roof turret above. Inside, the church offers the image of a south-facing hall with a retracted two-bay choir and organ loft on pillar arcades. The triumphal arch is painted with a monumental Last Judgment by the architect's brother, Hans Zatzka , from 1887.

The furnishings are uniformly neo-Gothic and come from the construction period. On the high altar are the figures of Joachim and Anna with Maria, next to them the Saints Joseph and Vincent von Paul. Other representations in the church show Maria Immaculata and other saints.

literature

  • Felix Czeike: Historical Lexicon Vienna Vol. 4 . Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1995
  • Dehio Handbook Vienna. X. to XIX. and XXI. to XXIII. District . Verlag Anton Schroll, Vienna 1996

Web links

Commons : Marianneum  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ the monastery garden should remain green . bz mein district.at, June 15, 2019 (accessed June 27, 2019).

Coordinates: 48 ° 10 ′ 5.4 "  N , 16 ° 18 ′ 11.7"  E