Parish church Leopoldau

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Catholic parish church Maria im Ellend in Vienna-Leopoldau
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The parish church Leopoldau is a Roman Catholic parish church in the district Leopoldau 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 the commemoration Seven Sorrows ordained . The building is a listed building .

history

On January 12, 1465, Pope Innocent VIII approved the separation of the village of Leopoldau from the mother parish of Kagran , making this new parish the oldest in today's Floridsdorf district. On site, the implementation of the papal will only required a devastating flood of the Danube in 1489, with which Leopoldau appeared permanently separated from Kagran. The separation was certified in 1489 with Prince-Bishop Friedrich II and Official Johannes Kaltenmarkler from the Diocese of Passau . The existing chapel was elevated to a parish church and received the patronage of Mary in misery or Mary on the run into Egypt . The Leopoldau cemetery south of the parish church was built at the time of the parish elevation .

Patronage

In a Maria Misery Church , the flight to Egypt from the child murderer Herod is commemorated; this incident is part of the second of seven sorrows of Mary . The feast of patronage is therefore celebrated on the feast day of the Seven Sorrows of Mary , September 15th .

church

Maria-im-Elend-Kirche

The originally Gothic church was destroyed during the Second Turkish Siege of Vienna in 1683. The current church was built in 1696 under Provost Christoph II of Klosterneuburg Monastery . After several renovations in the following centuries, it was given its current design in 1952.

The steeply proportioned nave has a gable roof; the facade is structured by pilaster strips. The interior is exposed through high set short arched windows. The west facade is closed off by a curved gable and includes the small rectangular portal with a crowned gable. The former portal porch with rounded corners is located on the north facade; In the volute gable stands a figure of the Madonna from around 1700. In the east, the lower choir adjoins the nave with a polygonal end and a pilaster-structured facade. The tower with its two-zone structure, arched sound windows and a high double-onion helmet is half set on the north side in the choir corner; to the south is the sacristy built in 1750 with a modern extension.

The church encloses a three-bay hall, in the western end of which the gallery resting on Tuscan columns is built. Behind the baroque high altar is a monumental crucifixion group in the end of the choir, the crucifix of which dates from around 1700 and the figures of Saints Mary and John from the middle of the 18th century.

The organ in the Leopoldau parish church was built in 1961 by the organ builder Gregor Hradetzky from Krems and has 20 stops on two manuals and a pedal . The baroque organ case with rich acanthus decoration and figurative decoration was created in 1736 and bought from the Brothers of Mercy in 1763.

Web links

Commons : Pfarrkirche Leopoldau  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Vienna - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. ( Memento from June 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) . Federal Monuments Office , as of June 21, 2016 (PDF).
  2. ^ Archdiocese of Vienna Leopoldau - the oldest parish in the city dean's office 21
  3. ↑ The day of patronage in the Catholic liturgical calendar is September 15th.
  4. ^ Cemetery Leopoldau - history on friedhoefewien.at, accessed on February 9, 2017.
  5. ^ Günter Lade: Organs in Vienna . Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-9500017-0-0 , p. 44.

Coordinates: 48 ° 15 ′ 47.1 ″  N , 16 ° 26 ′ 27.5 ″  E