Meidlinger parish church

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Meidlinger parish church
inner space
Mariazellerkapelle

The Meidlinger Parish is a Roman Catholic church in the 12th  Viennese district Meidling that in the years 1842-45 according to plans by Carl Roesner was built. She is the St. John of Nepomuk and is located at Migazziplatz .

history

The first Meidlinger church was probably built in 1732/33 at the instigation of Emperor Karl VI. built. It was the first church in Austria to be consecrated to John of Nepomuk, who was canonized in 1729 and is considered the patron saint against floods. Meidling was frequently hit by floods due to the nearby Wien River . In 1783 this chapel, which until then had belonged to the Penzing parish, was elevated to a local chaplaincy in the course of the Josephine church reform and in 1784 to a parish church. Since then, Meidling has been looked after by Klosterneuburg Abbey .

The church, which had become too small and was located at today's Meidlinger Hauptstrasse  10, was replaced in 1842-45 by a new three-aisled church in neo-Romanesque style based on plans by Carl Roesner, which is an early example of historicism in Vienna. Emperor Ferdinand personally set the keystone. This scene was captured by Peter Fendi . The new church received a valuable painting by Johann Georg Schmidt as the high altar picture , which was originally the high altar picture of Klosterneuburg Abbey and depicted the birth of Mary. She also owned a picture by Leopold Kupelwieser and another by Johann Ender . The church was restored in 1879 and 1900.

During the Second World War, the church was damaged in 1945 and the interior was largely destroyed. The high altar picture was painstakingly restored and returned to Klosterneuburg Abbey, the picture by Kupelwieser was given to the Lower Austrian State Museum, and the picture by Ender was destroyed. 1952–58 the architect Gustav Peichl redesigned the presbytery . From 1991 the church underwent a general renovation and the altar was redesigned. A lower church was also created.

Building description

The church was built free-standing on a specially created square and its exterior design is somewhat based on the recently built Altmannsdorf church . It is a hall church that is accentuated by a facade tower and is strictly symmetrically structured. The building is broad, with a slightly raised central nave with a ribbed vault. The choir is just closing. There are powerful cross-shaped pillars in the hall.

The sparse interior is dominated by a monumental crucifixion group by Erich Pieler from 1956, which with a height of over 4 meters is the largest wooden sculpture in Austria. The ceramic Stations of the Cross (1963) are by Alfred Kirchner . The new altar and tabernacle were made by Geyling. The pews and gates are from the construction period.

In the baptistery there is a plastic Pietà from the 2nd half of the 19th century. The image of the crucified from the 17th century is said to have been pierced in Nuremberg in 1650 with the lance with which the side of Christ was opened. There is also a copy of an image of Mary from Brno and a Trinity from the 18th century. The baptismal font is from the first church.

In the Mariazellerkapelle there is still an altar from 1888 by the Kastner brothers, which depicts Maria Immaculata. In the side niches there are figures of St. Severin and Leopold.

Next to the church is the rectory, which was also built by Roesner together with the church.

organ

View of the organ

The organ was built in 1933 by the organ builder Johann Kauffmann (Vienna). The instrument has 40 stops on three manuals and a pedal.

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Bourdon 16 '
2. Principal 08th'
3. Quintatön 08th'
4th Gemshorn 08th'
5. Dolce 08th'
6th Octave 04 '
7th Pointed flute 04 '
8th. Octave 02 '
9. Cornett III 02 2 ⁄ 3  '
10. Mixture IV 02 '
11. Trumpet 08th'
II subsidiary work C – g 3
12. Violin principal 08th'
13. Covered 08th'
14th Salizional 08th'
15th Prefix 04 '
16. Reed flute 04 '
17th Nasat 02 2 ⁄ 3  '
18th recorder 02 '
19th Mixture III 02 2 ⁄ 3  '
20th shelf 08th'
III Swell C – g 3
21st Remote principal 08th'
22nd Delicately covered 08th'
23. Aeoline 08th'
24. Vox-Celestis 08th'
25th Fugara 04 '
26th Covered flute 04 '
27. Night horn 02 '
28. Terzian 01 3 ⁄ 5  '
29 Zimbel III 02 '
30th shawm 08th'
Pedals C – f 1
31. Principal bass 16 '
32. Violon 16 '
33. Sub bass 16 '
34. Fifth 10 2 ⁄ 3  '
35. Principal 08th'
36. Covered 08th'
37. Octave 04 '
38. Cornett V 05 1 ⁄ 3  '
39. trombone 16 '
40. Clairon 04 '

literature

  • Karl Hilscher: History of the parish church of St. Johannes Nepomuk in Meidling . Vienna 1917
  • Felix Czeike : Historical Lexicon Vienna. Volume 4: Le - Ro. Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-218-00546-9 .
  • Dehio Handbook Vienna. X. to XIX. and XXI. to XXIII. District . Verlag Anton Schroll, Vienna 1996
  • Ernst Drexler: 200 years of the Meidling parish , in: Blätter des Meidlinger Bezirksmuseum, Vienna 1985, issue 15.
  • Hertha Bren: Return of the Czestochowa image of grace (the Black Mother of God) in the Meidlinger parish church , in: Blätter des Meidlinger Bezirksmuseum, Vienna 1985, issue 15.
  • Hans W. Bousska: Venite adoremus. From the history of the Church of St. John of Nepomuk. A chronology , in: Leaves of the Meidlinger Bezirksmuseum, Vienna 2011, issue 74

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hedwig Abraham: Meidlinger Hauptstrasse - old village center , January 2007, accessed on August 3, 2020.
  2. ↑ to the disposition

Web links

Commons : Meidlinger Pfarrkirche  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 48 ° 10 ′ 53 ″  N , 16 ° 20 ′ 7 ″  E