Parish Church Baden-St. Christoph
The Roman Catholic parish church Baden-St. Christoph is in the Weikersdorf district in the municipality of Baden near Vienna in Lower Austria . The parish church of St. Christoph belongs to the dean's office in Baden in the Archdiocese of Vienna . The parish church is a listed building .
history
A church building association in Weikersdorf was founded in 1889. The church was built from 1955 to 1957 as the second parish church in Baden in the Weikersdorf district according to the plans of the architect Hans Petermair . The foundation stone was laid in 1955, in 1957 the consecration and transfer of parish rights from St. Helena took place here. 1973 was an interior restoration. In 1978 the weekday chapel was redesigned.
architecture
- Church exterior
The church has a mighty elongated octagonal nave with a northern vestibule and a southern choir under a gable roof and hipped roofs with stepped ridge heights. A five-axis arcade under a hipped pent roof on round columns with sculptured cube capitals or consoles with symbolic animal figures by the sculptor Franz Barwig the Younger (1957) was presented to the north hall . The high square tower in the northwest with high round arched sound windows and an onion helmet is connected to the north hall by a narrow transition yoke. The weekday chapel in the north-east south of the vestibule is under a half-hipped roof. In the gable of the vestibule is a sgraffito St. Christophorus by the painter Sepp Zöchling (1957). Above the three portals of the vestibule are reliefs of Christ Pantocrator flanked by two angels by the sculptor Franz Xaver Ölzant (1957).
organ
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Originally, an organ from 1905 was installed as a temporary arrangement in 1960. Because this became irreparable, it was decided in 1992 to buy a new organ, which was put into operation in 1997 for the 40th anniversary of the parish. This organ with 1319 pipes and a total weight of approx. 3900 kg was made by Rieger Orgelbau . It has two manuals , a pedal and 21 stops with a range of C - g3 / C - f1.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria south of the Danube 2003 . Baden, parish church St. Christoph, pp. 155-156.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Parish St. Christoph: interior and artistic design ; accessed on Jan 6. 2020
- ^ Rieger organ building: Baden near Vienna (AT) ; accessed on Jan 6. 2020
Coordinates: 48 ° 0 ′ 7.5 ″ N , 16 ° 13 ′ 3.3 ″ E