Atzgersdorf parish church

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Atzgersdorf parish church
View of the chancel

The parish church Atzgersdorf is a Roman Catholic church in the Atzgersdorf district in the 23rd district of Liesing in Vienna . It is dedicated to St. Catherine .

history

The parish of Atzgersdorf has existed at least since the early 14th century. In 1345 a pastor Nicolaus was first mentioned in a document. For centuries, the surrounding villages of Altmannsdorf , Erlaa , Hetzendorf , Liesing , Mauer and Siebenhirten and parts of Kalksburg were looked after by the parish of Atzgersdorf. In the era of Josephinism , the parish was reorganized. In 1783, the Atzgersdorf parish was only responsible for the town of Atzgersdorf itself and Erlaa, which only became a parish in 1975. Christoph Anton von Migazzi , the Archbishop of Vienna, financed the construction of the parish church of Atzgersdorf as compensation for the territorial losses suffered . It is a classicist wall pillar church , which was built from 1781 to 1782 according to a design by the architect Andreas Fischer .

The bells melted down during the First World War were replaced by four new bells in 1920. The damage to the roof and church tower from World War II was removed in 1948.

Since 1960 the branch church of St. Christophorus , also Notkirche Atzgersdorf , is a branch church of the parish Atzgersdorf.

The part of the Liesinger district coat of arms, which is intended for Atzgersdorf, shows Saint Catherine with a palm branch and sword on a green meadow - a direct reference to the parish church of Atzgersdorf.

Artistic arrangement

Most of the classicist interior has been preserved. The Rococo pulpit by Ignaz Walter from 1765, the case of the organ (main case around 1750, positive case 1784) and a copy of the miraculous image of Mariahilf by Lukas Cranach the Elder (around 1770), as found in many Central Europeans, are older Churches is located. The baptismal font was taken over from the old church , a donation from Abbot Gerhard v. Heiligenkreuz, who was baptized in the old parish church in 1660. The so-called fever cross , which had stood in the open field in what was then Speisinger Strasse (today Scherbangasse) since the Turkish wars and was only transferred to the old parish church in 1761, found a place in the new church. The fever cross was said to have miraculous activity and many processions and pilgrimages are documented. There is evidence that Empress Elisabeth Christine also made a pilgrimage to Atzgersdorf. The pictures of the former side altars were preserved after they were dismantled in the early 1960s. These are the representations of Mary , St. Athanasius and St. Christopher . Since 1934 the gravestone slab of Pastor Andreas Gattereder (1793–1848) has been set into the wall above the Weihbrunnkessel next to the main entrance.

organ

Organ Vienna-Atzgersdorf

The baroque organ, built around 1750, which comes from Perchtoldsdorf , more precisely from the Leonardi Church, which was secularized under Joseph II and subsequently demolished, was donated to the parish of Atzgersdorf in 1783. After the originally single-manual organ was too small for the Atzgersdorfer church, it was extended by a parapet positive to 2 manuals and placed in the Atzgersdorfer church in 1784.

In 1856 the organ was repaired by Alois Hörbiger and two stops were added.

In 1917, Johann M. Kauffmann completely rebuilt the organ in the late romantic style: The purely mechanical slider chests were replaced with cone chests with pneumatic tubes, in keeping with the zeitgeist of the time, and a new, free-standing console was built. In addition, the baroque parapet positive was shut down and its pipes moved into the main case. This new construction comprised 15 registers, distributed over 2 manuals and pedal.

In 1988 the organ was finally restored by Gerhard Hradetzky using the historical baroque case and 5 original stops in baroque style, whereby the parapet positive was also reactivated. Special emphasis was placed on baroque intonation, "lively organ wind" and true to the original, unevenly floating tuning according to Werckmeister II. The organ now has 18 sounding registers, distributed over 2 manuals and pedal.

literature

  • Ferdinand Opll: Liesing: History of the 23rd Viennese district and its old places . Jugend und Volk, Vienna 1982, ISBN 3-7141-6217-8 .
  • "From the chronicle of the parish of Atzgersdorf", commemorative publication on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the parish church of Atzgersdorf, 1982/83.

Web links

Commons : Parish Church Atzgersdorf  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jean-Baptiste Brequin de Demenge : Carte des environs de Schönbrun et ceux de Laxemburg , 1755.
  2. ↑ Artwork in public space at the Scherbangasse chapel in the digital cultural property register of the City of Vienna, accessed on April 5, 2014

Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 50.7 ″  N , 16 ° 17 ′ 39.8 ″  E