Dornbach parish church

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The parish church Dornbach
The parish church from the east

The Dornbach parish church is a Roman Catholic church building in the Dornbach part of Vienna's 17th district of Hernals . It is consecrated to Saints Peter and Paul .

Location and architecture

The listed church is located on Rupertusplatz in the old town center of Dornbach. The church interior consists of the old baroque hall church with a Gothic core and an extension building from the interwar period connected to the south . The building complex of the parish church closes off Rupertusplatz, which is surrounded on three sides by farm buildings and the rectory.

The interior of the church is visually divided by a gallery on which the organ is located. The high altar with a copy of the so-called Nonnberg crucifix by Jakob Adlhart is in the basement of the church tower. On the back wall of the altar there is a fresco showing the history of the founding of the church and which was created by Walter Urban in 1937/38 . The frescoed Stations of the Cross and the two holy water basins with life-size ceramic angels are works by Hans Andre from the 1930s. The former Gothic choir is now a side chapel with old tombstones embedded in the walls.

In the three-storey rectory, which is also listed, there is a black house altar from the 17th century and several figures of saints from the 18th century. A stone mosaic depicting Saint Rupert , created in 1959 by Erich Huber , is attached to the entrance to the rectory . In the two-storey-deep abbey cellar there is a wine press , which was probably built in the 18th century . In the parish garden there is a baroque two-story garden house and three sandstone figures, probably created by Lorenzo Mattielli around 1730, which originally stood in Schwarzenbergpark .

history

In the place of today's church there was a chapel, consecrated in 1139, which received the rights of a parish church in 1251 and was incorporated into St. Peter's Abbey from 1262 . In 1476 a new Gothic building was built. After it was destroyed during the first Turkish siege of Vienna in 1529, the church was rebuilt in 1536, after that during the second Turkish siege of Vienna in 1683 in 1687/88. In 1755/56 the parish church in Dornbach was expanded and redesigned in the baroque style and renovated in 1779. The composer Joseph Haydn , who was a friend of the senior teacher Josef Pfriemer from Dornbach, lived in the Dornbach rectory in the summer of 1802 and summer of 1803. The rectory was rebuilt in 1829 on the foundations of the old rectory. The builder Franz Glaser directed the construction of a warrior chapel in 1881, which was redesigned in 1968 by Erich Huber .

The architect Clemens Holzmeister designed the southern extension, which was built in 1931/32 on the site of the old Dornbach cemetery, turning the main axis of the church by 90 degrees. The baroque and the new component were initially only connected by three wall openings. In 1951 the partition was completely removed and the church interior was standardized. The Dornbach parish church got a new main entrance and an arcade in 1957 according to plans by Georg Lippert , which included the old sacristy. In 1960 and 1961 the church received its current bells from the Viennese bell foundry Josef Pfundner . In 1962 the choir was redesigned.

The parish church of Dornbach has been owned by the Archdiocese of Vienna since 1995 . The Dornbach parish, which is based in the church, is now part of City Deanery 17 and also looks after the Schafberg Church and the Dornbach St. Anna Chapel .

Heiller organ

In October 2015 the "Heiller-Orgel Dornbach" was inaugurated in the parish church. The instrument is a historical feature.

Originally in 1964 for the Wiener Konzerthaus with the leading assistance of the Dornbach organist and composer Anton Heiller , the first mechanical concert hall organ in Europe was built after 1945. It is a product of organ movement , turning away from romanticism and electropneumatic instruments and marks a clear turning point in action, disposition and intonation. Finally the music of Johann Sebastian Bach could be interpreted authentically again.

The organ was planned and built by master organ builder Gregor Hradetzky from Krems an der Donau in a record time of 10 months. Anton Heiller asked the organ builder Rudolf von Beckerath for the reeds. Beckerath learned in Paris from González, the successor of Cavaille-Coll. Accordingly, trompets and cromorne have a French character.

Removed in 1995 from the Mozart Hall of the Wiener Konzerthaus , the organ was then in the parish church of Korneuburg , from where it was transferred to Dornbach in the home of Anton Heiller in summer 2015.

25 registers are distributed over two manuals and pedal. The instrument is arranged as follows:

I Manual C-g 3
1. Quintadena 16 '
2. Principal 8th'
3. Reed flute 8th'
4th octave 4 '
5. Pointed flute 4 '
6th Forest flute 2 '
7th Sesquialtera II 2 2 / 3 '
8th. Mixture V-VI 2 '
9. Trumpets 8th'
II Manual C-g 3
10. Covered 8th'
11. Black viola 8th'
12. Principal 4 '
13. Reed flute 4 '
14th Octave 2 '
15th Quint 1 1 / 3 '
16. Scharff IV 1'
17th Cromorne 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – d 1
18th Sub bass 16 '
19th Octave bass 8th'
20th Covered bass 8th'
21st Choral bass 4 '
22nd Night horn 2 '
23. Rauschpfeife IV 2 2 / 3 '
24. bassoon 16 '
25th shawm 4 '
  • Coupling: II / I, I / P, II / P

Web links

Commons : Pfarrkirche Dornbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dehio-Handbuch Wien. X. to XIX. and XXI. to XXIII. District . Edited by Federal Monuments Office. Anton Schroll, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-7031-0693-X , pp. 422-424
  2. ↑ Rudolf Spitzer: Hernals: between belt and Hameau . Mohl, Vienna 1991, ISBN 3-900272-39-5 , p. 56
  3. ↑ Rudolf Spitzer: Hernals: between belt and Hameau . Mohl, Vienna 1991, ISBN 3-900272-39-5 , pp. 6-7

Coordinates: 48 ° 13 '44.3 "  N , 16 ° 17' 54.4"  E