Parish Church Herz Jesu (Vienna-Floridsdorf)

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Catholic parish church Hl. Herz Jesu in Vienna-Floridsdorf

The parish church Herz Jesu is a Roman Catholic parish church in the Floridsdorf district 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 consecrated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus .

history

Count Peter Vay de Vaya, church donor

The Order of the Carmelites of the Divine Heart of Jesus began its activities in Austria in 1914 and founded a monastery in 1917 at Töllergasse 9 to 15. After the house chapel was too small for the local population, a church was considered in the monastery garden. Peter Vay de Vaya , a count of Hungarian origin, lived in the monastery at that time and donated the financing, although the total financing was no longer possible due to currency devaluation. The foundation stone was laid in 1923, the shell was erected between 1925 and 1926 and the church was consecrated on June 29, 1928 by Bishop Ernst Karl Jakob Seydl . Originally the church was dedicated to St. Peter . A statue of the saint in a wall niche above the main portal reminds of this. The towerless church was built according to plans by Bruno Buchwieser senior in the Renaissance style. In 1963 the church was consecrated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Extensive renovation work took place from 1970 to 1971.

Furnishing

The main and side altars are carved from Val Gardena . On January 1, 1940, the church was elevated to a parish church. In 1941 the church also received an organ from the Eberhard Friedrich Walcker organ building company from Ludwigsburg . In 1957, a statue of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception by the sculptor Karl Nieschlag was placed on the side of the monastery facing the church . In 1986 a Trinity column by the sculptor Jan Bauch was erected in the monastery garden.

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Maria Immaculata, sculptor Karl Nieschlag

The order initially devoted itself to the education of young people and ran a children's home. In the course of the annexation of Austria to Hitler's Germany , the Gauverwaltung initially thought of an expropriation, but this was soon uninteresting due to the existing high debts. The children were taken over by the NSV and moved to a children's home in Bärnbach in 1939 , only one kindergarten and one after-school care center were allowed to remain. When an old woman asked for admission, they thought about an old people's home and in 1939 the Caritas Association started with ten old people. Soon, however, the need arose to accommodate up to 70 Catholics of Jewish origin, with whose rent payments the current loan installments could be paid. When 19 people were forced to be picked up in a truck on March 21, 1942, where it was later learned that they had been transported to Poland, those who stayed behind lived in constant fear. On July 9, 1942, another 50 people were picked up in the same way, the last a few days later. The Gestapo confiscated the household effects of those who had been picked up . Only two of these people survived until the end of the war in 1945. After the retirement home for non-“ Aryan ” Catholics was closed, the military confiscated the monastery for the Flakgruppe Wien Nord. Additional barracks were set up in the monastery garden and a large radio station was set up in the basement. After the war, the management of a retirement home was restarted, from 1956 to 1957 the retirement home was greatly expanded with an extension, but closed in 2007 and demolished around 2014.

literature

  • Felix Czeike : Vienna District Culture Guide, XXI. Floridsdorf . Jugend und Volk, Vienna 1979, ISBN 3-7141-6221-6 , page 50.
  • Paul Holzapfel: Parish Herz Jesu Töllergasse: The church and the place through the ages , Festschrift 50 Years Parish Church, Parish Herz Jesu, Vienna 1990.

Web links

Commons : Parish Church of the Heart of Jesus  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence


Coordinates: 48 ° 15 '37.6 "  N , 16 ° 25' 16.4"  E