Paulanerkirche (Vienna)

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Paulan Church
South side of the Paulanerkirche with rectory
inside view
Paulanerkirche, engraving by Salomon Kleiner (1721)

The popular Paulaner Church called the 4th Vienna district Wieden location Roman Catholic Church to the holy guardian angels standing at the Irene Harand place at the turn of the favorite street from the Wiedner main street . It belongs as a branch church to the parish of the Good News in the City Deanery 4/5 in the Vicariate Vienna City of the Archdiocese of Vienna . The church is a listed building .

history

A first church in Wieden is mentioned as early as 1211 and was consecrated to St. Antonius. It came into the possession of the Knights of the Order of the Holy Spirit as a gift . It was completely destroyed during the first Turkish siege of Vienna in 1529. Since the order of knights had ceased to exist in the meantime, their goods were awarded by the sovereign to the Vienna diocese .

In the course of the Counter Reformation, Emperor Ferdinand II summoned the Order of St. Francis von Paola to Vienna in 1626 . In 1627, the Paulaner Order began building the church on Wiedner Hauptstrasse, which was generally known as the Paulan Church. After its completion in 1651, Bishop Philipp Friedrich von Breuner consecrated the monastery church to the holy guardian angels. But already during the second Turkish siege of Vienna in 1683, the church suffered severe damage, which was removed again by 1686. Today's church tower was added in 1717 , and the facade was slightly changed around 1730 by adding the two side portals. After the repeal of the Paulaner Order in 1784, the monastery buildings to the east were no longer needed and were demolished. The last part of it is still preserved on Paulanergasse, where the parish office is located today. Renovations took place inside in 1860, outside in 1907, 1957/58 and 1984. In 1963, the church forecourt had to be reduced in size for traffic reasons. The Guardian Angel Fountain, built on this site in 1846, was moved to Rilkeplatz.

Since April 2016, in addition to the usual parish services, the daily services of the Priestly Society of St. Peter in the Tridentine rite have been taking place in the Paulanerkirche .

As part of the ongoing diocesan reform in the Archdiocese of Vienna, the parishes of Wieden, St. Elisabeth , St. Florian , St. Thekla and St. Karl Borromäus were merged under the name of Parish for the Good News on January 1, 2017 . The church of St. Elisabeth was designated as the parish church . Since then, the Paulanerkirche, as a church of the Wieden-Paulaner sub-community, has been a branch church of the parish for the Good News.

Building

The architect and builder of the Paulanerkirche are not known. The building is an early baroque monastery church based on the Italian model with a simple north facade, which is structured by Tuscan pilasters and crowned with a triangular gable. The high-quality statues of St. Francis of Paola and St. Francis of Assisi stand in two niches . The tower stands east of the choir and has an onion helmet. The interior of the church consists of a hall with three bays and barrel vaults. Three side chapels open on both sides. In the north, separated from the nave, there is a groin vaulted vestibule with the organ gallery.

Furnishing and equipment

In the choir there are wall paintings on the ceiling with the glorification of the Holy Trinity and angels from around 1720-30, which are attributed to Carlo Carlone . The high altar fills the entire back wall of the choir and was completed in 1718. It was a donation from Vienna's lackeys and court brotherhood. An inscription and a group of figures with several figures can be seen on the top of the altar, with an angel's fall and guardian angel on the sides. The altar figures show St. Boniface and St. Vitalis . The high altar picture with the depiction of the guardian angels comes from a later time, it was created by Josef von Hempel in 1844 . In front of it is an image by a Dutch painter from the 16th century depicting the Madonna and Child .

The adjacent right side altar is dedicated to St. Francis de Sales . It is the first altar in Vienna that was consecrated to him and was a donation from the Savoy Landsmannschaft. The small pictures show the patron saint of the imperial couple, St. Francis of Assisi for Francis Stephan of Lorraine and St. Teresa of Ávila for Maria Theresa .

Opposite it the left side altar is dedicated to St. Francis of Paola. The altarpiece represents a miracle of the saint and comes from Ignaz Joseph Bendl around 1700. The altar figures, however, are from the 19th century and depict the saints Stephanus , Barbara , Katharina and Laurentius .

The middle right side altar is a cross altar, the image of which is a copy of an Italian master. The altar figures represent the apostles Peter and Paul , two small pictures of St. Wenceslas and St. Leopold . Two oval pictures above the lintels by Paul Troger with the women at the grave and St. Mary Magdalene in front of the risen Christ are particularly important here .

The opposite left side altar represents the erection of the cross and was created by Johann Michael Rottmayr . The altar figures show Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus , the two small pictures Saint Peter and Saint Mary Magdalene.

The next right side altar shows the Adoration of the Shepherds by an unknown master as well as small pictures of St. Joseph and St. Joachim in rococo frames. The altar figures represent Saint Anne and Saint Joseph.

The opposite left side altar shows the holy mother Anna, who teaches Mary to read. Two small pictures depict St. Aloisius von Gonzaga and St. Stanislaus Kostka . On the wall there is a picture of Leopold Kupelwieser with the Immaculate .

The pulpit dates from 1690. In the Annunciation Chapel to the left of the choir there is a baroque Annunciation image that comes from the Gaming Charterhouse . To the right of the choir is the Loreto Chapel. Under the church is a crypt with a three-aisled pillar hall.

The organ of the Paulanerkirche - a new building in the historical case - was built by Adolf Donabaum and has 2 manuals and a pedal .

Others

In 1862 the Paulanergasse in Wieden was named after the order or its church.

literature

  • Dehio-Handbuch, the art monuments of Austria. Topographical inventory of monuments. Department: Vienna. Volume 2: Wolfgang Czerny: II. To IX. and XX. District. Revision. Schroll, Vienna a. a. 1993, ISBN 3-7031-0680-8 .
  • Felix Czeike : Viennese district culture guide. Volume 4: Wieden. Jugend & Volk, Vienna a. a. 1979, ISBN 3-7141-6220-8 .

Web links

Commons : Paulanerkirche (Vienna)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Petrusbruderschaft moves in Vienna from the Capuchin Church to the Paulan Church ›Catholic. Retrieved July 6, 2017 .
  2. ^ PT Székely, Austria: FSSP - Vienna. Retrieved July 6, 2017 .
  3. ^ Archdiocese of Vienna: Cardinal Schönborn in "Pfarre Neu": "Developing ways of life". Accessed March 31, 2017 (German).
  4. ↑ Diocesan Gazette of the Archdiocese of Vienna January 2017

Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 45.8 ″  N , 16 ° 22 ′ 3 ″  E