Parish church Maria Hietzing

Hietzingen parish church

The parish and pilgrimage church of Maria Hietzing is a Roman Catholic parish church in the Hietzing district of Vienna's 13th district Hietzing . The parish is located in the Dean's Office 13 of the Vienna Archdiocese belonging city Vicariate Vienna . It is the feast Nativity ordained . The building is a listed building .

Parish history

Side view

View from Schönbrunn Palace Park

At the location of the church, an alluvial cone of the Lainzerbach near its confluence with the Vienna , there was already a chapel in honor of Mary in the 13th century. In 1253 the Commander of the Teutonic Order Ortolf von Traiskirchen exchanged the courtyard of the monastery in Hyecingen (Hietzing) with the associated church for possessions in Stockstall , Ziersdorf and Dürnbach of the Klosterneuburg monastery . The Hietzinger Church was a separate church at that time: It belonged to the landlord and brought him income from two vineyards and 18 buckets of mining rights (payment in kind in wine). In return, the landlord had to pay for the needs of the church and pastoral care. Expansion of the monastery property in Hietzing made the monastery the sole owner of the place at the end of the 13th century. The independence of the church was only given in relation to the secular authorities, since the parish belonged to the large district of the Penzing parish . Since the Hietzingen church became very important as a pilgrimage church , the Penzing parish tried to absorb the lucrative income. Klosterneuburg Monastery, however, held on to the right to present all pastors in Hietzing itself. The founding of the diocese of Vienna in 1469 did not change anything, although the Viennese bishop tried to excommunicate all Hietzingers who did not go to church in Penzing at the beginning of the 16th century. To ward off the desires Penzings, the pen reached 1534 papal incorporation Hietzinger church. Nevertheless, the disputes over the status of the Hietzingen Church continued for more than 200 years. Only Emperor Joseph II ended the dispute. Although he had the exemption of the Hietzing Church lifted on December 24, 1782 , Hietzing and Schönbrunn Palace were separated from the Penzing parish in 1786 and raised to a separate parish that was incorporated into Klosterneuburg Abbey. At that time, the newly founded parish comprised the village of Hietzing with around 480 inhabitants, Schönbrunn Palace with around 285 inhabitants and six houses in Unter Sankt Veit with around 74 people.

History of the parish church

The monastery had a Gothic chapel built between 1414 and 1419, which was subsequently destroyed several times: in 1484 by the invasions of the Hungarians , in 1529 during the first Turkish siege of Vienna . Although the church was poorly repaired in 1536, it fell into disrepair and was in ruins in 1580.

Jakob Vivian had the church repaired again from 1587 to 1593, but the Hungarians destroyed the church again in 1605. In 1607 the church was repaired again, the Swiss sculptor Antonius Crivelli designed the high altar. After the church was redesigned in Baroque style in 1660 , it was destroyed during the Second Turkish Siege of Vienna . In 1685 it therefore had to be rebuilt again, and in 1688 it was decorated with ceiling paintings and in 1698 with the high altar by Matthias Steinl .

Column with statue of the Mother of God

The church became an important place of pilgrimage, as legend has it that some men who had been tied to a tree by the church by the Turks were miraculously saved. The godly men had called on the Mother of God, whose statue of grace had been hidden in the tree from the Turks. In 1751 this legend was immortalized by a sculpture and the miraculous image on the high altar.

In 1690, the church was expanded to include the Leopold Chapel, and in 1733 the Johann Nepomuk Chapel and the imperial oratory were added. Maria Theresa also had paintings of the Way of the Cross from Schönbrunn put up in the parish church. From 1863 to 1865 the church was rebuilt and expanded according to plans by Carl Roesner . The west facade and the bell tower were rebuilt in the neo-Gothic style. In 1865 the church was further adorned with facade sculptures by Johann Meixner and Andreas Halbig . The plans for the west facade formed the basis for the construction of the west facade of the parish church in Melk in 1868 .

After being damaged during the Second World War , the church had to be renovated after the war, in 1953 the interior was also renewed, and in 1955 new glass windows followed. Extensive renovations have also been carried out recently. In 1994/95 the exterior was renovated and in 2001 the church received a new roof. An extensive interior renovation took place between 2003 and 2005.

Furnishing

High altar

Interior of the church

The central element of the church is the monumental, baroque high altar, which was built by Matthias Steinl in 1698 and was given its current form in 1751. The depiction of the legend of the rescue of some Hietzing men from the Turks is depicted in the middle structure of the high altar: Mary is depicted in the foliage crown of a stylized tree, at her feet the four men pleading for help, whose fetters have already been broken. Left and right of the altar are two gilded statues of Joachim and Anna , the parents of Mary, and the parents of John the Baptist , Elizabeth and Zacharias . On the gable of the high altar there are sculptures of God the Father, the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove and angels. The high altar is crowned by the Austrian double-headed eagle , which is also installed above the window of the oratory , where Empress Maria Theresa could attend the mass unseen.

Side altars

The two side altars of the Hietzingen parish church, like the high altar, were designed by Matthias Steinl. The oil paintings, on the other hand, were made by Johann Michael Rottmayr in 1712. The left altar is dedicated to “Christ on the Cross”. Next to it there are sculptures of Maria and Johannes, in the gable the handkerchief of Veronica is depicted. In addition, there are figural representations of St. Helena , who found the cross, St. Margaret , the saint of death and life as well as the risen Redeemer with the flag of victory in the gable. Opposite the cross altar is the Joseph altar with the oil painting “Saint Joseph on his death bed”. It includes sculptural figures of the order saints Augustine and Ambrosius , surmounted by Saint Catherine and Saint Barbara and in the gable top a representation of the Archangel Michael .

Leopoldi Chapel

The altarpiece of the Leopoldi Chapel , which was added in 1690, shows St. Leopold , who is holding the plan of the church on Leopoldsberg in his hands. The ceiling frescoes in the dome show scenes from his life, the representations are by Josef Kastner the Younger . The two paintings in the chapel are a gift from the monastery and show on the left side wall the holy canon Pierre Fourier and opposite the blessed canon Hartmann , the first provost of Klosterneuburg, later Bishop of Brixen .

Johannes Nepomuk Chapel

In 1733 a second chapel was added to the north on the outside of the church, so that the large number of pilgrims could also attend mass outdoors. Inside the chapel houses an oil painting with the depiction "St. John Nepomuk on the pilgrimage to Old Bolesławiec, while the Holy Virgin appears to him in the clouds".

Further equipment

The ceiling of the main room is adorned with stucco by Dominicus Piazzol and frescoes by Antoni Galliardi . In the central oval there is a fresco “The Election of Mary”, in the coves there are eight scenes from the life of Mary. Further frescoes in the choir show the "Coronation of Mary" and the "Admission of Mary", in the corner fields "The Death of Mary" is depicted with the admission of her soul by Christ and the "Entombment of Mary". The main altar and ambo were executed by Wolfgang Stracke in white Danube limestone marble and are in the center of the church. The baptismal font with Easter candlestick and the resurrection cross are also by Wolfgang Stracke .

The organ was built by the Viennese company Johann M. Kauffmann in 1903 and has 18 registers on two manuals and a pedal .

Church life

The Maria Hietzing parish is part of the Hietzing Nord development area. Sunday services are held in the church at 8:30 am and 10:15 am (in July and August only at 9:30 am).

There is a Caritas Vienna Le + O distribution point in the Maria Hietzing parish . It offers support for people at risk of poverty through the distribution of food and free advice.

Others

On July 31, 1882, Hans Makart's wedding to the former prima ballerina Bertha Linda took place in this church at 6 a.m.

literature

• Christine Klusacek, Kurt Stimmer: Hietzing. A district in the country. Vienna 1977.

Web links

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

• Parish Church Maria Hietzing on the website of the Archdiocese of Vienna
• Parish Maria Hietzing
• The miraculous image in the Hietzing parish church
• hietzing.at - Parish Church "Maria Hietzing"

Individual evidence

1. ^ Vienna - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. ( Memento of October 13, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF), ( CSV ( Memento of October 13, 2017 in the Internet Archive )). Federal Monuments Office , as of June 23, 2017.
2. ^ Archdiocese of Vienna, Hietzing parish. Retrieved May 11, 2019 . 
3. ^ Parish Maria Hietzing, Masses. Retrieved May 11, 2019 . 
4. ^ Caritas Vienna, Le + O, issuing offices. Retrieved April 30, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Daily report. Vienna, July 31. In:  Wiener Allgemeine Zeitung. Sechsuhr-Abendblatt , July 31, 1882, p. 10 (online at ANNO ). [Vermälung.] As the "NWT" announces, the marriage of Professor Hans Makart with Miss Bertha Linda took place today at 6 o'clock in the morning in the parish church in Hietzing. The notary substitute Mr. Sigmund Holding and Mr. Albert Obermayer intervened as advisers.
   
6. ↑ Theater and Art News. In:  Neue Freie Presse , August 1, 1882, p. 8 (online at ANNO ).
7. ↑ * marring. In:  Prager Abendblatt. Supplement to the Prager Zeitung , August 1, 1882, p. 3 (online at ANNO ).

Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 8 ″  N , 16 ° 18 ′ 6 ″  E