Gersthof parish church

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Gersthofer parish church
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The Gersthof parish church is a Roman Catholic church building in the Gersthof district of Vienna's 18th district Währing . It is consecrated to Saint Leopold .

Location and architecture

The free - standing neo-Gothic exposed brick building is located on Bischof-Faber-Platz in the center of Gersthof. The church was designed by the Viennese architect Richard Jordan , the court architect Josef Schmalzhofer was responsible for the execution . The rectangular Bischof-Faber-Platz is surrounded by apartment buildings, most of which - in keeping with the architectural style of the church - are designed in a neo-Gothic style.

The Gersthofer parish church is a symmetrical hall church . On the south facade with the main portal it has a striking church tower with a square floor plan and in the north it is closed by a polygonal choir . In between is the hall with the main nave , which is flanked by two lower aisles. The sacristy is housed in a small annex to the west. The small extension in the east (with a floor plan mirrored to the sacristy) is the so-called Easter chapel, which is open to the main room.

The architect Richard Jordan also designed the high altar with figures of Saints Leopold, Francis of Assisi , Elisabeth of Thuringia , Teresa of Ávila and Johannes Nepomuk . There is also a Maria Lourdes altar and other side altars in the church. The artist Ferdinand Stuflesser created a sculpture of St. Cecilia of Rome for Gersthof . The organ was manufactured in 1933 by the Dreher & Flamm company. The stained glass with depictions of saints date from the construction period, while the mosaic Noli me tangere was created in 1980 by Alfred Crepaz . The parish has a nativity scene that was carved by sculptors from Val Gardena at the end of the 19th century and remodeled in 1994.

Drawings with Richard Jordan's designs for the Gersthof parish church and the Redemptorist church were presented at the Paris World Exhibition in 1900 .

history

Pastor
1899-1915 Ignaz Winkelmayer
1915-1934 Ignaz Wenzl
1934-1951 Ferdinand Haas
1951-1967 Heinrich Fessel
1967-1976 Friedrich Glotz
since 1976 Norbert Rodt

The Roman Catholic parish of Gersthof, founded in 1784 as part of the Josephine reforms, was initially housed in the Johannes Nepomuk Chapel . When the chapel became too small due to the growing number of members of the parish, the pastor Ignaz Winkelmayer founded a church building association in 1885. Construction of the new Gersthof parish church began as early as 1887. The site for the church was the second Gersthof cemetery, which was closed in 1877 . The property was owned by the industrialist Albert Dub, who donated it for the new church. The Albert Dub Park, the green space around the Gersthofer parish church, is reminiscent of Albert Dub. The completed church building was consecrated on November 15, 1891, the feast day of St. Leopold.

In 1899 the church received parish rights from the Johannes Nepomuk Chapel. Today the Gersthof parish is one of five parishes in the city ​​dean's office 18 . Heinrich Maier , who later became the leader of the resistance group against National Socialism Maier-Messner-Caldonazzi , became a deacon in the parish church in 1935. He was executed on the scaffold in 1945 . Today a headless statue in the building reminds of Heinrich Maier. In 1952 the church received its current bells. The interior was restored and changed in 1963. In 1979 the exterior of the church was restored. Another redesign of the interior took place in 1980 for liturgical reasons.

literature

  • Anton Hecht: beheaded for Christ & Austria. GDR. Heinrich Maier, chaplain in Vienna-Gersthof . Gersthof parish, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-900930-03-1
  • Martin Stangl: Richard Jordan - sacred buildings . Diploma thesis, University of Vienna 1999

Web links

Commons : Gersthofer Pfarrkirche  - Collection of pictures, 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 , p. 480
  2. ^ 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. 460–462
  3. ↑ http://www.architektenlexikon.at/de/264.htm , accessed on June 25, 2009
  4. ↑ http://www.wien.gv.at/umwelt/parks/anlagen/adub.html , accessed on June 25, 2009

Coordinates: 48 ° 14 ′ 3.7 ″  N , 16 ° 19 ′ 27.8 ″  E