Parish church Mödling-St. Othmar

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Parish church hl. Othmar in Mödling
South view of the parish church

The Roman Catholic parish church Mödling-St. Othmar is in the town of Mödling in the district of Mödling in Lower Austria . It is consecrated to St. Othmar and belongs to the dean's office Mödling in the vicariate Unter dem Wienerwald of the Archdiocese of Vienna . The building is under monument protection ( list entry ).

history

Construction of the Othmarkirche began on May 13, 1454 under Pastor Johannes Hinderbach . An inscription above the main entrance reminds of this. Before that, six predecessor churches had stood on the site of today's Othmarkirche. The oldest documented predecessor church was a Carolingian church from the 9th century . In the place of the Othmarkirche there has been a church for over 1100 years.

Duke Przemysl III was the pastor at the time of the construction of the Othmark Church . from Opava . He lived in the Herzoghof in Mödling, in today's Herzoggasse. He died in 1493, his tombstone is still on the north wall in the Othmarkirche. As a parish church, it belongs to the Mödling deanery and thus to the Archdiocese of Vienna.

After 69 years of construction, the church was completed in 1523. Six years later, in 1529, it was burned down in the Ottoman War . From the time before the destruction, in addition to walls and columns, the sacrament house , the head of the crucified on the great cross and an embroidered image of Mary (today on the votive altar) have been preserved.

Interior view towards the high altar
Interior view towards the organ gallery

The reconstruction took over a hundred years. On a map from 1610, the Othmarkirche is shown without a roof as old desolate churches . In 1618, Cardinal Melchior Khlesl issued a decree calling for donations for the reconstruction of the church:

The house of God at Mödling unterm gebürg, which was built at great expense, was built in 1523 with all that it belonged to, and was even built in 6 years afterwards, when he landed with all his might and strength fallen and besieged instead of Vienna, put in prandt and sabbatical of all church regalia.

In 1629 a Salzburg resident named Florianus Ursprunger donated the Märbelstein pavement ( Salzburg marble ) for the chancel. A marble plaque on the right column in the chancel reminds of this.

In the second Ottoman War in 1683, the population who fled to the church was massacred, the church itself was damaged again, but was quickly rebuilt under market judge Wolfgang Ignaz Viechtl. Viechtl was a miller by trade, so there are two millstones on the outside of the west wall at a great height. A memorial plaque is attached to his former home on today's Freiheitsplatz. In 1690 the church including the roof structure and roof was restored. The roof structure is three-story, 18 m high, made entirely of fir wood, and has been described by experts as a masterpiece of carpentry .

In the 18th century, the Othmarkirche was made Baroque . The pulpit with a representation of Pope Benedict XIII. and seven baroque altars were erected, an inscription on the Nepomuk altar commemorates this: unum ex septem altaribus . Five of these altars are still there today, some with a renewed altarpiece. The high altar was donated by Maria Theresa in 1760 . In 1727 the first organ was built. Furthermore, it is difficult for us to imagine today that most of the windows were bricked up.

Under Mayor Josef Schöffel , the Church Restoration Association was founded on the occasion of the town elevation in 1875, and the Othmarkirche was regotified. Most of the stained glass windows date from this period.

The last major renovation took place from 1982 to 1983. Excavations revealed the six previous churches. The liturgical ideas of the Second Vatican Council were realized in contemporary works by the artist Hubert Wilfan . The front of the popular altar shows the meeting of the disciples with the risen One at the lake of Tiberias (Jn 21). The ambo shows the sower and the fate of the seed he spreads (Mt 13).

Dimensions

The dimensions of today's church are 54 m long, 23 m wide and 18 m high, the ridge height is 37 m. As for St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna, Sarmat sandstone (Cerithiensandstein) was used as the building material , a coarse, fossil-free sand-lime stone that was created as a deposit from the Young Tertiary Sea on the edge of the Vienna basin.

organ

The Michael-Walcker-Mayer organ in a late baroque case

In 1727, a one-manual organ with a pedal was probably built by Joseph Wiebel . In 1777, the organ builder Franz Xaver Christoph extended the organ to include a back positive on the parapet to two manuals and enlarged the existing three-part organ case . After several repairs, the organ was rebuilt in 1929 by master organ builder Johann M. Kauffmann . In 1983, the organ builder Michael Walcker-Mayer installed a completely new three-manual organ with a mechanical action in the existing listed housing and reactivated the Rückpositiv, which was deactivated in 1929. On January 8, 1984, the inauguration took place by Auxiliary Bishop Helmut Krätzl . In 2001 and 2005 there were minor renovations, so that the organ has since then had 34 registers with a total of 2,226 pipes .

Church life

The parish Mödling is located in the vicariate under the Vienna Woods of the Archdiocese of Vienna. It is part of the development area of ​​the Deanery Mödling South. There is a Caritas Vienna Le + O dispensing point in the parish . Food is distributed to people at risk of poverty.

See also

  • The Romanesque charnel house next to the church was built in the 12th century.

literature

  • DEHIO manual. The art monuments of Austria: Lower Austria south of the Danube. Part 2. M to Z. Mödling. Parish church hl. Othmar. Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.), Berger Verlag, Horn / Wien 2003, ISBN 3-85028-365-8 , pages 1459 to 1464.

Web links

Commons : Othmarkirche (Mödling)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • The St. Othmark Church. In: othmar.at. Parish of St. Othmar(detailed treatise on theChurch of Othmar).;

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lower Austria - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. (PDF), ( CSV ). Federal Monuments Office , status: 23 January 2019.
  2. ^ Parish St. Othmar - Mödling: history of the organ ; accessed on February 11, 2017
  3. ^ Archdiocese of Vienna, parishes. Retrieved May 12, 2019 .
  4. ^ Caritas Vienna, Le + O, issuing offices. Retrieved May 12, 2019 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 5 ′ 6 ″  N , 16 ° 16 ′ 50 ″  E