Neulerchenfelder parish church

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Parish Church Neulerchenfeld
The hall building from 1957, with the high altar painting until 2013

The Neulerchenfelder parish church is a Serbian Orthodox church in the 16th district of  Vienna Ottakring at Neulerchenfelder Strasse 47. The originally Roman Catholic parish was dissolved in 2013 by resolution of the Archdiocese of Vienna . This was planned for 2011, but was delayed for a long time by an appeal by the community to the Roman Rota . It has been used by the Serbian Orthodox community since 2014.

history

The Stift Klosterneuburg supervised pfarrlich the area now Ottakring until 1848. The agreement for the construction of a church in Neulerchenfeld , a new suburb to the east of Ottakring and west of the belt was formed, was given on August 29, 1732 by Provost Ernest von Perger . The completion of the church building took until the year 1753. With the consecration it took again until May 28, 1757, when Auxiliary Bishop Franz Anton Maurer consecrated the church to the patronage of Sorrowful Mother of God . The branch church of the Alt-Ottakringer parish church was spun off on May 4, 1761 by Prince Archbishop Cardinal Christoph Anton von Migazzi and raised to the status of an independent parish church.

In 1939 the Maria Namen branch church , which looks after the Hipp quarter just behind the Gürtel, was elevated to an independent parish church.

On January 15, 1945, the church was almost completely destroyed by a bomb attack, except for the towers; However, the tabernacle and the statue of Our Lady of Sorrows have been preserved . Today's hall building was consecrated on October 27, 1957.

Due to the high proportion of migrants in this district, the Roman Catholics have now become a minority in the parish area. In 2010 the Archdiocese of Vienna decided to hand over the church to the Serbian Orthodox Church, Diocese for Austria and Switzerland , in order to remedy the lack of space in the Viennese Serbian Orthodox parish and to save costs itself.

On August 31, 2013, the Neulerchenfeld parish was dissolved. The parish went to the parish Maria Namen .

The fight against the donation was unsuccessful.

church

Master bricklayer Andreas Perthold and master carpenter Wolfgang Hillebrand built the church, which has short twin towers. The approx. 7 × 4 m high altar picture of the new building of the Catholic Church, which was only loaned as property of the cathedral chapter of St. Stephen's Cathedral , came from Joachim von Sandrart , the Pietà from Johann Theny, mosaics from Hermann Bauch . After the parish was closed in 2013, the high altar was returned to St. Stephen's Cathedral and was installed there in 2019 above the entrance to the hall of the Adlertore.

Bells

The 6 bells are divided between the two towers.

Bells overview Neulerchenfeld parish church
No material volume Weight Caster Casting year
I. steel a´ 1100 kg Bell foundry Böhler 1921
II steel cis´´ 700 kg Bell foundry Böhler 1921
III steel e´´ 400 kg Bell foundry Böhler 1921
IV steel fis´´ 250 kg Bell foundry Böhler 1921
V bronze e´´ 120 kg Peter Hilzer 1885
VI bronze g sharp ´´ 85 kg Franz Scheichel 1737

Web links

Commons : Neulerchenfelder parish church  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Parish Neulerchenfeld parish chronicle
  2. ^ Vienna: Archdiocese gives away church Neulerchenfeld . DiePresse.com, November 23, 2010
  3. ↑ Diocesan Gazette Archdiocese Vienna September 2013 (PDF; 132 kB)
  4. ↑ Schönborn wins the dispute over a parish donation . DiePresse.com, March 4, 2014
  5. ^ Archdiocese of Vienna Brief description of the church
  6. ↑ Josef Weismayer: A cross returns. The crucifixion picture by Joachim von Sandrart (1653). In: The Cathedral. Bulletin of the Vienna Cathedral Conservation Association. Episode 2/2019 ZDB -ID 1054178-0 . Pp. 10-11.

Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 40.7 ″  N , 16 ° 20 ′ 0.1 ″  E