Parish Church Queen of Peace (Vienna)

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Parish Church Queen of Peace
Interior of the parish church Queen of Peace, altarpiece imposed by Lent cloth

The parish church of the Queen of Peace is a Roman Catholic church in Vienna's 10th  district of Favoriten at Buchengasse  158. It is the parish church of the Divine Mercy parish.

history

In the middle of the 19th century, the area where the Queen of Peace parish is now mainly consisted of fields. The few residents were looked after by the parish of St. Elisabeth until 1876 with the parish church on Keplerplatz and St. Anton, the first parishes of the district were founded. In the course of this, various emergency churches were built , among which was the Queen of Peace Chapel . This was a wooden structure clad with Eternit , which served as a hospital church during the First World War and was later transferred to the square between Quellenstrasse and Matzleinsdorfer Friedhof .

In 1922 this 800-person church - including 250 seats - was consecrated and in 1924 the Pallottines took over as a pastoral care station. The goal of creating an independent parish turned out to be difficult due to the economic situation of the time. Finally, in 1930 the building site for a new church was acquired and on September 3, 1933 the foundation stone for the church building took place. On April 1, 1935, the pastoral care area was elevated to a parish. On November 16 of the same year Cardinal Innitzer consecrated the new parish church.

On November 1st, 2015, the parishes of Our Lady of Three Miracles , St. Anthony of Padua and Catherine of Siena were united with the parish Queen of Peace. The new parish is called Divine Mercy.

Architecture and equipment

The parish church Queen of Peace was built according to plans by the architects Leo Schmoll and Robert Kramreiter and is based on the demands of the popular liturgical movement around Pius Parsch . The designs for the furnishings and the glass windows also come from Kramreiter . The Pallottial Tar and the Stations of the Cross were created by Sepp Kals .

The portal structure consists of two massive, tower-like pylons that enclose the forecourt. These are almost 20 meters high, each house a chapel at church level and are used in their entire height up to the bell chambers by small group rooms and the parish library.

The ground plan of the church building measures 52 meters in length and 22 meters in width, while the height of the nave is 16.5 meters. Their maximum capacity is around 3000 people, 480 of which are seats.

Web links

Commons : Parish Church Queen of Peace  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Lorenz Lindner SAC: Queen of Peace. Church leaders. Vienna 2010, p. 5f.
  2. ↑ a b c d Online Church Guide of the Queen of Peace Parish, History section. Retrieved April 10, 2011 .
  3. ↑ Three times wonderful Mother of God in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna . Retrieved May 12, 2017
  4. ↑ Leo Schmoll. In: Architects Lexicon Vienna 1770–1945. Published by the Architekturzentrum Wien . Vienna 2007. Accessed on May 12, 2017
  5. ↑ Robert Kramreiter. In: Architects Lexicon Vienna 1770–1945. Published by the Architekturzentrum Wien . Vienna 2007. Accessed on May 12, 2017
  6. ↑ a b c Lorenz Lindner SAC: Queen of Peace. Church leaders. Vienna 2010, p. 7f.

annotation

  1. ↑ At the laying of the foundation stone, the church leader states “Autumn 1934”. This is probably wrong, because Felix Czeike states September 3, 1933, but the Architects Lexicon Vienna 1770–1945 also lists architects 1933 and many other book authors.

Coordinates: 48 ° 10 ′ 34 "  N , 16 ° 21 ′ 41.6"  E