Parish church Maria vom Berge Karmel (Vienna)

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Former parish church of Maria vom Mount Carmel
South-east view of the church with the monastery building
Former parish church of Maria vom Mount Carmel, viewed from the side
Former parish church Maria vom Berge Karmel with adjoining monastery

The former parish church of Maria vom Berge Karmel is a Syrian Orthodox church in Vienna's 10th  district of Favoriten at Stefan-Fadinger-Platz 1. The church was a Roman Catholic parish church from 1937 to 2015 , and also a Carmelite church until 2003 and then the home church of the Philippine community in Vienna .

history

In 1886 the first Carmelites came to Austria from the New World , where they initially worked in Maria Taferl until 1922 . From there they founded the monasteries Zedlitzdorf in Carinthia and Kirchwiedern in Moravia . In 1904 the order was called to Vienna and from 1906 worked in the Ottakringer villa district until 1915, after lengthy negotiations, the land at today's Stefan-Fadinger-Platz was bought to build a church. This wooden emergency church , which was built in the wilderness of that time, was consecrated on September 8, 1916 in honor of the mother of the Holy Scapular, but fell victim to a fire on January 2, 1928. Only the monastery built a few years earlier could largely be saved. When a new building became necessary due to these circumstances, architect Hans Prutscher planned it as a lower and upper church based on the American model. The former was finished quickly and could be consecrated on December 22, 1929.

The duties of the religious who worked there included u. a. the pastoral service in the Trieste Hospital and the consecration service at the central cemetery, which is far from the church. During this time, Fr. Telephorus Hardt played a major role, as he was the Prior of the Vienna Carmelite Convention for many years. In this context he became the first pastor of the newly created parish when he was elevated to parish church on January 1, 1937. At that time, only the steel skeleton erected above the lower church indicated the upper church still to be built, which could not be consecrated by Cardinal Innitzer until August 30, 1942 . After the National Socialist rulers banned and dissolved all of the church's associations, the lower church served as an air raid shelter . On February 21, 1945, the church was bombed and 140 people were killed.

In August 2003 the Carmelite Convent was dissolved - the order handed over pastoral care to the Archdiocese of Vienna, but remained the owner of the parish buildings. The Archdiocese subsequently brought the Vienna Filipino community to Maria Karmel. In September 2014, the Carmelite Order sold the church and monastery to the Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch . The existing Catholic parish was dissolved on January 1st, 2015. The Catholic community had to settle in the parish of St. Integrate apostles with whom the parish was merged. In the course of 2015 there were further mergers, so that the new parish Christ on Wienerberg emerged from four former parishes.

Reconstruction and equipment

The reconstruction, which began after the end of the war, led to the consecration of the lower church in 1951 after the restoration of the dome and roof. The construction of the upper church and the tower began in 1957 and was carried out according to plans by Helene Koller-Buchwieser . This work was completed on June 22, 1958, after which the church could be designated by Archbishop Franz Jachym . The consecration of the church to the title of the Most Holy Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel took place on April 8, 1962 after the sanctuary was completed.

In 1965 the church windows were renewed and the construction of the bell tower began in the autumn of the same year. On November 7th, the tower cross was consecrated and on May 15, 1966 the reconstruction of the church was completed with the consecration of bells.

In 1966 the presbytery was redesigned for liturgical reasons and updated again in 1996.

Organ of the upper church

Organ of the upper church

In spring 1964 a Walcker organ was installed. The slider chest instrument has 18 stops on two manuals and pedal. The playing and stop actions are mechanical.

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Prefix 8th'
2. Reed flute 8th'
3. octave 4 ′
4th recorder 4 ′
5. Forest flute 2 ′
6th Mixture V 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
7th Scharff IV 1'
8th. Trumpet (horizontal) 8th'
II breast swellings C – g 3
9. Covered 8th'
10. Reed flute 4 ′
11. octave 2 ′
12. Sesquialter II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
13. Zimbel III 1 ⁄ 2 ′
Tremulant
Pedals C – f 1
14th Sub-bass 16 ′
15th Principal bass 8th'
16. Covered 8th'
17th Gemshorn 4 ′
18th bassoon 16 ′

Web links

Commons : Maria vom Berge Karmel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Franz Caucig:  New Churches in the Archdiocese of Vienna. In:  Christliche Kunstblätter , year 1932, volume 73, issue 4–6, pp. 56–57 (with two images.) (Online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / ckb
  2. ↑ a b c d e f History of the parish Maria vom Berge Karmel on their website. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 16, 2009 ; Retrieved April 20, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mariavombergekarmel.org
  3. ↑ church is handed over to Syrian Orthodox Church , erzdioezese-wien.at from September 15, 2014 - Accessed on September 30, 2014.
  4. ↑ Diocesan Gazette of the Archdiocese of Vienna January 2015. (pdf) Retrieved on January 16, 2015 .
  5. ^ Parish: Christ on Wienerberg.Retrieved July 27, 2016.
  6. ↑ Information on the organ at walcker.at.

Coordinates: 48 ° 9 ′ 57.6 "  N , 16 ° 21 ′ 26.8"  E