Parish church Kaisermühlen

Parish church with the campanile built in 1966

The parish Kaisermühlen ( Sacred Heart Church ) is a Roman Catholic parish in the district Kaisermühlen in the 22nd Viennese district Donaustadt and is a listed building .

history

After being incorporated into Vienna in 1850, Kaisermühlen belonged to the 2nd district of Leopoldstadt for many decades , so the inhabitants had to make a long and arduous journey to “their” parish church of St. Nepomuk. The Danube regulation from 1870 to 1875 meant that Kaisermühlen was now more severely cut off from the rest of the district area than before by the new main river of the Danube. The first attempt to establish their own house of worship in Kaisermühlen was made in 1873 and failed: The so-called "iron church", in the way it was built as an emergency church in England, was never accepted by the Kaisermühlen and one day disappeared without a trace.

On March 6, 1884, Karl Ryba, who was both the catechist of the elementary school and a cooperator of the Nepomuk Church, founded a church building association. The aim of this association was to build a church for and in Kaisermühlen to enable the population to walk the hour to St. To spare fair. Karl Ryba was elected first chairman of the association and was able to win over Crown Princess Stephanie for protection of honor. The municipality of Vienna, in agreement with the Danube Regulation Commission, made the 1725 square meter building site available on Schüttauplatz.

Construction work could begin in 1885. On April 24, 1887, the foundation stone was laid by Cardinal Cölestin Josef Ganglbauer . The ceremonial inauguration of the first part of the church was carried out on December 4, 1887 by Auxiliary Bishop Eduard Angerer.

On June 10, 1888, the Sacred Heart Festival was celebrated here for the first time, initially in the unfinished part. In 1889 the Corpus Christi procession was celebrated for the first time.

The prefabricated building of the basilica was difficult due to lack of money, a donation from the emperor could help. At the request of the Prince Archbishop of Vienna, the solemn consecration was postponed until the spring of 1895 in order to complete the establishment of a definitive pastoral care in Kaisermühlen by then. The order of the Salvatorians (societas divini salvatoris) made itself available to take over the pastoral tasks for the new parish to be established.

The basilica was finally consecrated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus on April 28, 1895 by Cardinal Anton Josef Gruscha with the participation of Emperor Franz Joseph I.

Since April 1, 2020, the three sub-communities Donaucity-Kirche, Bruckhaufen - St. Elisabeth and Kasiermühlen belong to the new common parish Maria Magdalena on the old Danube .

Architectural

inside view

A young architect, Alois von Erlach, who was a pupil of Heinrich von Ferstel , provided the plans for the church. He planned a magnificent Italian Renaissance basilica with a lower church. However, since the execution was far too expensive, the shape of a basilica without a lower church remained. The architect Victor Luntz , professor at the Academy of Fine Arts , simplified Erlach's plans to make them feasible.

The three naves of the basilica are separated by six columns each, the first two of which come from the burned down ring theater .

For a long time the basilica had no tower. The campanile planned on the east side in the appropriate style was never built. The now existing tower on the north side was built in 1966 according to plans by the architect Erwin Plevan under pastor Father Josef Fütterer.

literature

• Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria: Vienna. X. to XIX. and XXI. to XXIII district. XXII. District. Kaisermühlen parish church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.), Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-7031-0693-X , pp. 658f.

Web links

Commons : Parish Church Kaisermühlen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Parish Kaisermühlen

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).

Coordinates: 48 ° 13 ′ 34.1 "  N , 16 ° 25 ′ 27.7"  E