Neustift parish church

Roman Catholic Parish Church of St. Rochus in Neustift am Walde

Southeast view of the parish church

The Roman Catholic parish church Neustift am Walde is located in the 19th district of Vienna Döbling in Neustift am Walde on Eyblergasse. The parish is located in the city Deanery 19 of the Vienna Archdiocese belonging city Vicariate Vienna . It is the holy Rochus ordained .

The building is under monument protection ( list entry ).

history

Neustift am Walde originally belonged to the parish of Heiligenstadt . The deed of foundation of the Sieveringen parish church from 1330 shows that the population of Sievering together with the Neustift population and the inhabitants of Salmannsdorf built this church together. As a result, Neustift am Walde and Salmannsdorf were also incorporated into Sievering. Even when Neustift am Walde came to the Vienna Augustinian choir monastery St. Dorothea in 1414 , no church was built in Neustift. It was not until 1713 that the Italian merchant Marco Abundio donated a chapel with a wooden dome and a plaque, commemorating the plague of the year and the construction of the chapel in honor of the triune deity, the Holy Virgin and the plague patron Rochus, Sebastian , Karl Borromeo , Franz Xaver and Rosalia remembered.

Only when the canons of St. Dorothea were abolished by Joseph II and the area was transferred to Klosterneuburg Abbey , Neustift am Walde was raised to an independent parish together with Salmannsdorf in 1784. The round chapel was subsequently expanded into a parish church between 1783 and 1785 by adding the presbytery, the sacristy and a brick tower. The plaque originally attached to the chapel was placed above the church entrance. The church tower had to be replaced by a new one in 1851, and the church was expanded again. The weekday chapel on the garden side was added in 1978. Outside there are a total of four baroque statues of saints of Anthony of Padua , Charles Borromeo , Paul and Peter .

Interior decoration

inside view

The classical high altar was erected in 1786. The altarpiece is in the tradition of Baroque painting and, according to the signature discovered in 2019, can be clearly attributed to the oeuvre of the Baroque painter Martino Altomonte . In the lower half, the traditional plague saints are shown: Rochus, Franz Xaver, Rosalia, Sebastian and Karl Borromeo; above Maria Immaculata flanked by the Most Holy Trinity. The high altar is framed by the pictures of St. Helena and St. Barbara. The two paintings with richly carved frames and gilded rocaille decorations were created around 1750. The two side altars date from 1833. The baroque picture on the left side altar depicts the Virgin Mary, at whose feet St. Karl Borromeo kneels. The right side altar is decorated with a picture of a crucifixion group, the signature of which it proves to be a work by the well-known painter Max von Poosch-Gablenz and is dated 1930. The organ with eight registers was built by the Klosterneuburg organ builder Franz Reusch in 1855 and is likely to be one of his early works. The colored church windows were purchased in 1993–1995. The artistic design comes from Jana Fertl, they were made by the glass painter Karl Fertl. The ringing consists of three bells. The two larger ones were cast by the Josef Pfundner foundry in 1949 . The small bell was originally from 1747, but had to be cast by the Max Samassa company in 1920 due to a crack .

literature

• Klusacek, Christine; Stimmer, Kurt: Döbling. From the belt to the vineyards. Vienna 1988
• Schwarz, Godehard: Döbling. Ten historical walks through Vienna's 19th district. Vienna 2004

Web links

Commons : Neustifter Pfarrkirche  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Neustift parish

Individual evidence

1. ^ Vienna - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. (PDF), ( CSV ). Federal Monuments Office , status: 23 January 2019.

Coordinates: 48 ° 15 ′ 2 ″  N , 16 ° 18 ′ 12 ″  E