Parish Church of Cyril and Method (Floridsdorf)

Catholic parish church of St. Cyrill & Method in Neu-Stammersdorf

Parish church of Cyrill & Method on the Marchfeld Canal

The parish church Cyrill & Method (also: parish church Neu-Stammersdorf ) is a Roman-Catholic parish church in the district part Neu-Stammersdorf in the cadastral community Stammersdorf of the 21st  Viennese district Floridsdorf . The parish is located in the city Deanery 21 of the Vienna Archdiocese belonging city Vicariate Vienna . It is the Holy Cyril and Methodius ordained .

history

In the course of a large-scale city expansion along Brünnerstrasse in Floridsdorf , around 3,500 apartments for around 15,000 people were built in the new development area Brünnerstrasse West on the Marchfeld Canal . In 1993 architect Otto Häuselmayer was commissioned to plan and build the parish church with a parish center. The design of the church is a continuation of the architecture of the parish church Emmaus am Wienerberg (1990–1992) in Vienna-Favoriten. Construction began in autumn 1994. The parish church was completed in March 1995 and was consecrated by Cardinal Archbishop Hans Hermann Groër . At Theumermarkt, a newly built square, there are other public buildings, a day care center, an all-day school and music school, and the Neu-Stammersdorf branch of the Floridsdorf adult education center.

Church and rectory

The building consists of three parts: a single-nave rectangular church with a dominating barrel roof, the parallel attached rectory, which is functionally connected to the church and a free-standing bell tower at the rear in the green rural area on the Marchfeld Canal. The church with the main portal side in the north with a forecourt partly covered by the barrel roof was raised by around 1.5 m to the wide, traffic-calmed Theumermarktplatz. Access from Theumermarkt to the church is via a wide, curved flight of stairs.

The rectangular, strictly symmetrical church has the portal in the north and the altar area in the south. The visitor enters the vestibule under the gallery and then a 10.5 m high church hall opens up with the open barrel roof with a floating character due to a generous all-round construction with window glass. The self-supporting, segment-arched barrel roof is primarily supported by curved wooden beams, which are held together with steel swords and tensioning ropes and rest on eight double columns, metal columns on the outside and beechwood columns on the inside. The altar wall is designed as a slightly concave curved conche, with two narrow vertical window strips on the sides. The conical wall is clad with beech wood and refers to the Trinity with three fields. The pews made of beech wood stand in four sectors on the chancel on a pedestal on the floor made of light-colored Solnhofen stone slabs. The west side has four narrow vertical window strips. The weekday chapel and the access to the rectory are on the east side.

The parsonage is attached to the church and moved up to the Theumermarkt. A three-story staircase with a skylight opens up the group rooms, the event hall and the pastor's apartment.

The free-standing bell tower is solid in the lower area and a wooden structure at the top.

literature

• Martina Berlinger and Christina Erlach: Parish Church Cyrill & Method . In: Ann Katrin Bäumler and Andreas Zeese: Church building in Vienna after 1945: From Rudolf Schwarz to Heinz Tesar . Vienna University of Technology, Art History Department, Vienna 2007, pages 108 to 115.
• Vienna-Floridsdorf. Roman Catholic Church and Parish of St. Cyril and Method. Architect Otto Häuselmayer, 1994-1995. In: Constantin Gegenhuber: Built prayers. Christian sacred architecture. New buildings in Austria 1990 - 2011. Art guide, Verlag Anton Pustet, Salzburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-7025-0632-2 .

Web links

Commons : Parish Church Cyrill & Method (Floridsdorf)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Parish church Cyrill & Method on the website of the Archdiocese of Vienna
• Website of the parish of Cyrill & Method

Individual evidence

1. ^ Johann Georg Gsteu : day care center 1995, Liesbeth Waechter-Böhm: children's world with sheet metal curtains. Spectrum, December 2, 1995
2. ↑ Stefan K. Hübner, Peter Leibetseder: All -day school and music school 1995, AzW 2003
3. ↑ Margherita Spiluttini : 1994-96 Church and Vicarage Cyrill and Method, Vienna 21
4. ↑ Augustin Fischer: Parish Church Cyrill & Method, Vienna, Otto Häuselmayer, 1990–1994, model reconstruction on a scale of 1:50 ( memento of the original from December 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Three photos, AzW 
5. ↑ Liesbeth Waechter-Böhm: Häuselmayer framed the sky, so to speak, and hung it over the altar wall in his church. Architektur Aktuell 178 April 1995

Coordinates: 48 ° 17 '30.2 "  N , 16 ° 24' 57.3"  E