Parish church of Hasenleiten

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Hasenleiten parish church, seen from Hasenleitengasse

The Hasenleiten branch church , also a branch church for the Divine Child Friend , is a Roman Catholic branch church consecrated to St. Johannes Maria Vianney in Vienna's 11th  district of Simmering and is a listed building .

On April 1, 2018, the parish of Hasenleiten was merged with the parishes of Neusimmering and St. Lukas to form the parish of Zur Divlichen Liebe. The parish church of Hasenleiten has since been a branch church of the parish of Zur Götlichen Liebe and the church of the Hasenleiten sub-community.

Emergency church

During the First World War , the Vienna War Hospital No. VI was located in the triangle Hasenleitengasse - Ostbahn - Am Kanal (formerly Wiener Neustädter Canal parallel to the Aspangbahn ). The barrack hospital, planned for 4,500 patients and built in 1915, also had a church and was overcrowded towards the end of the war. After the war, the barracks were converted into emergency shelters for the homeless with partition walls. The Hasenleiten housing estate was later built there.

The church of the war hospital, made of wood in the style of Russian village churches, was a donation from a Polish company, was delivered in prefabricated parts, had a slim wooden tower and was designated on November 1, 1915 by military curate Karl Rudolf. After the war, when the hospital barracks served as emergency shelters for the homeless, the church was deserted and devastated until 1926, when Jesuit Father Peter Paul Pohl and courageous men made makeshift arrangements and services were held again. Some Jesuit fathers took over the care from 1927 to 1934, until 1934 with Konrad Thurnher a permanent pastor came. With Thurnher, the pastoral care area of ​​Hasenleiten, which belonged to the parish of St. Laurenz with the parish church of Altsimmering , was managed with its own parish council from 1942 and became an independent parish on January 1, 1944.

On December 19, 1959, the former military curate Karl Rudolf, now prelate in St. Stephen's Cathedral , celebrated the last Holy Mass in the barrack church. This was canceled in 1961.

Today's parish church

A plot of land for a new church had been acquired under Thurnher on the southern edge of Hasenleiten. His successors Pastor Josef Erber and Pastor Anton Haselhofer got the project going and brought it to a close. The parish church was designed and realized by architect Ladislaus Hruska between 1953 and 1959 and consecrated on December 20, 1959 by Archbishop Cardinal Franz König as the first and so far only Austrian church to Johannes Maria Vianney, the pastor of Ars.

The way of the cross designed as a wire sculpture by the painter Koruka is also worth seeing.

Pastor and pastor

  • 1915–1918: Karl Rudolf
  • 1926–1934: Peter Paul Pohl and other Jesuits
  • 1934–1951: Konrad Thurnher (1885–1951), a priest from Dornbirn , went voluntarily with Josef Gorbach to be available for workers' pastoral care in Vienna
  • 1952–1957: Josef Erber
  • 1957–1962: Anton Haselhofer
  • 1963–2000: Anton Stilling (1931–2000)
  • 2001–2015: Peter Hryckiewicz
  • since 2015: P. Mag. Jan Soroka, CR

In 1956 the Konrad-Thurnher-Gasse in Simmering was named after Pastor Thurnher.

In 2002 the Anton-Stilling-Platz in Simmering was named after the clergyman Anton Stilling, pastor of Hasenleiten. Pastor Stilling was with the Catholic Middle School Association K.Ö.St.V. Vandalia Vienna in the MKV and in the Catholic university association KaV Danubia Vienna-Korneuburg in the ÖCV.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Vienna - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. ( Memento from May 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) . Federal Monuments Office , as of June 27, 2014 (PDF).
  2. ↑ Diocesan Gazette of the Archdiocese of Vienna April 2018
  3. ↑ Renate Weinmüller: 75 Years of Hasenleiten - From the Austro-Hungarian War Hospital to the Housing Estate , District Museum Simmering , Issue 35, 1990.
  4. ^ A b Hans Havelka: On the history of the parish Hasenleiten. District Museum Simmering, issue 35, 1990.
  5. ↑ simmeringonline short report on architect Ladislaus Hruska and painter Koruka
  6. ↑ 1956: Konrad-Thurnher-Gasse in Simmering named after Konrad Thurnher (1885–1951), pastor of the Hasenleiten parish, socially engaged
  7. ↑ 2002: Anton-Stilling-Platz in Simmering named after Anton Stilling (1931–2000), pastor of the Hasenleiten parish
  8. ↑ Stilling on the website of the Catholic Austrian student association Vandalia ( Memento of the original from April 17, 2013 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.vandalia.at
  9. ^ Discourse book on the occasion of 100 years of KaV Danubia WIen-Korneuburg 1907–2007

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Coordinates: 48 ° 9 '53.1 "  N , 16 ° 25' 4.8"  E