Parish Church Don Bosco (Großfeldsiedlung)

West view of the parish church with the parish center attached to the south

South view of the parish church Don Bosko with the parish center in front of it

North view of the parish church

The Don Bosco parish church is a Roman Catholic parish church in the Großfeldsiedlung district in the Leopoldau district of the 21st Viennese district of Floridsdorf and consecrated to St. Johannes Bosco .

The parish is located in the city Deanery 21 of the Vienna Archdiocese belonging city Vicariate Vienna .

history

As part of the urban expansion of Floridsdorf by the Großfeldsiedlung , the communal suburban settlement for over 20,000 residents, the parish church designed by Clemens Holzmeister was built from 1970 to 1971 at Herzmanovsky-Orlando-Gasse 16 in the east of the settlement. The solemn consecration took place on November 28, 1971 by Bishop Franz Jachym .

description

Architecturally, the church and parish center form a unit. The simple exterior of the sacred building with a moat roof indicates a functional design. The parish rooms are located to the south of this. The interior is rectangular and has a central altar position with surrounding pews. The weekday chapel is to the right of the altar area and the baptistery is opposite on the left.

Web links

Commons : Parish Church Großfeldsiedlung-Don Bosco - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Don Bosco parish website

Individual evidence

↑ Clemens Holzmeister. In: architektenlexikon.at. Architekturzentrum Wien, accessed on April 4, 2018 .
↑ Don Bosco Church (21, Herzmanovsky-Orlando-Gasse) in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
↑ Otmar Lowitzer: churches in Austria 1945 - 1970 studies on the church in the tension between architecture flows, Liturgical movement and religious conception of art. (PDF; 1.83 MB) Dissertation. In: othes.univie.ac.at. University of Vienna, October 2007, p. 146 , accessed on April 4, 2018 .

48.270555555556 16.451888888889Coordinates: 48 ° 16 '14 " N , 16 ° 27' 6.8" E

[1] Clemens Holzmeister. In: architektenlexikon.at. Architekturzentrum Wien, accessed on April 4, 2018 .

[2] Don Bosco Church (21, Herzmanovsky-Orlando-Gasse) in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna

[3] Otmar Lowitzer: churches in Austria 1945 - 1970 studies on the church in the tension between architecture flows, Liturgical movement and religious conception of art. (PDF; 1.83 MB) Dissertation. In: othes.univie.ac.at. University of Vienna, October 2007, p. 146 , accessed on April 4, 2018 .