Upper St. Veiter parish church

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St. Vitus and Mary - Refuge for sinners
Interior of the parish church

The parish church of Ober St. Veit is a Roman Catholic church in the district of Ober St. Veit in the 13th district of Hietzing in  Vienna . It is on Wolfrathplatz.

Building

The late baroque church stands over the remains of a sloping Gothic retaining wall made of rubble stones. The core of the nave is Gothic and was formerly part of a fortified church. The church is structurally connected to the former Archbishop's Palace in the northwest. It was mentioned in a document as a parish church in 1260 and 1298 and came into the possession of the Dompropstei St. Stephan in 1365 . During the Turkish Wars , the church was damaged by fire in 1529, restored in 1660 and further damaged in 1683. Between 1742 and 1745 the church was rebuilt by Mathias Gerl , including the existing choir, tower and parts of the nave under the patron saint Archbishop Cardinal Sigismund von Kollonitz . The inaccessible crypt under the choir with a former access from the nave was walled up in 1904. In 1994 a baptistery was added by the architect Hermann Bauer.

High altar painting "Martyrdom of St. Vitus"

The high altar from 1745 bears an altarpiece Marter des St. Vitus from Fra Agostino a San Luca. The side altar paintings of the Assumption of Mary and Glory of St. Joseph are from Gaetano de Rosa from 1744, St. Anna teaches Maria to read from Franz Anton Tschungko. The organ from 1932 is a work of the Johann M. Kauffmann company .

The patronage of the church is “Mary, Refuge for sinners and St. Vitus ”.

Baptistery

Baptistery; Established in 1994

In 1994, instead of the baptistery built in 1965 on the north side of the nave, a new and larger baptistery was built according to plans by the Hietzingen architect Hermann Bauer. It also serves as a place of worship on weekdays and is accessible from inside the church as well as via a glazed connection that is accessible from the church entrance.

The ceiling is a stepped, exposed timber construction. The ratio of the ceiling height to the wall height follows the golden ratio . The chapel floor is covered with Greek marble. The semicircular, brick-built chancel is located in the middle of the glazed north facade and receives indirect, natural light from above. The altar table is made of Wachau marble and has twelve relief figures on the front side depicting the twelve apostles. To the right of the altar is the ambo , which is also made of Wachau marble and shows the risen Christ with the Emmaus disciples in relief . Both the altar and the ambo are the work of the Lienz artist Peter Niedertscheider . To the left of the altar is the baptismal font, which dates from the 19th century.

literature

  • DEHIO manual: The art monuments of Austria. Vienna X. to XIX. and XXI. to XXIII. District XIII. Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.), Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-7031-0693-X , pages 171 to 173.

Web links

Commons : Ober St. Veiter Parish Church  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ List of parishes in the Archdiocese of Vienna
  2. ↑ a b Hietzing.at: Parish Church Ober-St. Veit ("Mary, Refuge for sinners", "St. Veit") ; accessed on May 31, 2016

Coordinates: 48 ° 11 '18.4 "  N , 16 ° 15' 58.6"  E