Sandleiten parish church

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St. Joseph Church
inner space

The Sandleiten Parish Church (also: Sandleiten Workers' Church ) is a Roman Catholic parish church in the 16th district of Vienna, Ottakring . It was built from 1935 to 1936 as part of the church building offensive of the Austro-Fascist regime according to plans by Josef Vytiska .

history

It was important to the Catholic regime of the Austrian corporate state to develop the community buildings that the more anti-clerical “ Red Vienna ” had built from 1923 to 1933 through Catholic parish churches. Part of this effort was the erection of this reinforced concrete skeleton structure dedicated to St. Josef (the worker) in the area of ​​the Sandleitenhof , the largest communal residential complex of the interwar period. In 1939 the church was elevated to a parish church. It is a listed building.

Architecture and equipment

The portal of the Sandleiten parish church can be reached via numerous steps and has a concrete roof. Above it is a round window with a Christ monogram . The tower of the church is on the east side, it houses the bells and carries the clock. Its roof is kept flat, similar to the shape of the church roof.

The fresco of St. Joseph, patron and helper of the afflicted , as well as the relief of the handkerchief of St. Veronika by Hans Andre , glass windows and mosaics were created by Karl Hauk and Albert Paris Gütersloh .

organ

history

Organ of the parish church Sandleiten
Main cabinet and play cabinet

The organ of the parish church of Sandleiten was built by the organ building company Pirchner as one of the first organs equipped with mechanical action after the period of pneumatic organ building and has 14 stops on 2 manuals and pedal . It is on permanent loan from the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna , where it was initially installed in a lecture hall at Singerstraße 26 and from 1966 in Seilerstätte 26. At the turn of the millennium they wanted to install a new organ in the artistically sophisticated case , but out of respect for the work of Anton Heiller , who had taught on this organ for years and later trained organists who had become well-known , decided to keep the instrument as a whole and in a church to make it perceptible to the public as a sound monument. The parish church of Sandleiten was ideal for this, as the paintings on the organ are stylistically not far from the works of art in the church and it is also located near Heiller's birthplace, home and death house at Heuberggasse 26.

Disposition

II Hauptwerk C – g 3
Reed flute 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Forest flute 2 ′
Sesquialtera 2f. 2 23
Mixture 4f. 1 13
I Rückpositiv C – g 3
Dumped 8th'
Reed flute 4 ′
Principal 2 ′
Nasat 1 13
Sharp 3f. 1'
Pedal C – f 1
Sub bass 16 ′
Octave bass 8th'
Choral bass 4 ′
bassoon 16 ′

Bells

Overview of the bells
volume Weight Caster Casting year
1 ais´ 373 kg Bell foundry Pfundner 1936
2 c´´ 239 kg Grassmayr bell foundry 1993
3 d´´ 175 kg Bell foundry Pfundner 1956

Web links

Commons : Pfarrkirche Sandleiten  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Homepage of the parish Sandleiten
  2. a b c Homepage of the Department for Church Music of the Archdiocese of Vienna, section organ renovations ( Memento from December 12, 2008 in the Internet Archive )

Coordinates: 48 ° 13 ′ 24.5 ″  N , 16 ° 18 ′ 22.1 ″  E