Parish church St. Benedikt am Leberberg

Parish church St. Benedikt am Leberberg

The parish church of St. Benedikt am Leberberg is a Roman Catholic parish church on the Leberberg in Vienna's 11th  district of Simmering . The parish is located in the Dean's Office 11 of the Vienna Archdiocese belonging city Vicariate Vienna . It was built in 1996 and 1997 and is dedicated to St. Benedict . It is currently the youngest parish church in the Archdiocese of Vienna.

Location description

View of the church from Pfarrplatz (west view)

The parish center with the church is located roughly in the middle of the Am Leberberg settlement built in the early 1990s at the intersection of Svetelskystraße / Am Hofgartel. The smaller Protestant community center Arche connects to the west . The church, community center, kindergarten and parsonage are surrounded on three sides by large five- to six-story apartment blocks.

history

At the beginning of the 1980s, the municipality of Vienna presented concrete plans to develop the “Am Leberberg” region in order to create living space for several thousand people. Therefore, Prelate Trpin, the pastor of the parish Kaiserebersdorf at the time, started looking for a suitable plot of land for the construction of a parish center. This was made possible by a donation of land from Leopoldine Herret. After the construction of the new settlement with more than 3000 residential units on the Leberberg began in the early 1990s, an architectural competition was announced for the construction of the parish center, which was won by master builder Wolfgang Zehetner .

On May 5, 1996 the foundation stone was laid for the parish center, which was built according to the plans of Wolfgang Zehetner, Walter Zschokke and Walter Michl . The church was consecrated on June 8, 1997 by Cardinal Christoph Schönborn to St. Benedict of Nursia .

The parish of St. Benedikt - Am Leberberg was established in 1998. Wolfgang Kaes was the pastor until 2002, and Camine Rea was appointed as his successor as moderator.

Building description

View from the chancel towards the church hall

The church on the Leberberg is particularly striking because of its design. From the outside, the building presents itself in a curved, linearly rising wall, which leads in a spiral-like manner into a round, compact tower. The layout of the Pfarr center is one of circular arcs in a parabola passing over egg shape, whose axis is aligned with the center of Vienna, eccentrically on the city external tip of a geosteten strict ellipse cut the tower floor plan. This basic construction forms the church and the courtyard; on the city side , the other parish buildings are arranged in individual ring sectors .

The massive front wall, unadorned except for one line of adjacent openings, then rhythmically staggered windows, shields the courtyard of the parish center like a snail shell. The tower decorated with just a rising on the Eilinie Wall sailing with a likewise erupted simple cross and a large area-poster-like inscription of the Bible quote, "Come, all you who are weary and burdened to me, I will give you comfort and life in abundance of gifts" in red on yellow , with a graphic head portrait of Christ. The roof structure, which is unobstructed from the inside, is a visible wooden net construction in the manner of a coffered ceiling with 275 m², whereby the connection of the wooden components was made without the use of metal parts, but only with dovetail connections . The assembly of the individual elements took place on the ground, and then the construction was lifted in one piece. The wooden ceiling runs out over the light facade on the courtyard side and is also barely perceptibly sagging, giving it a certain floating textile lightness. The light wall of the church hall is partly made of glass, partly made like a screen in very thin Carrara marble, technically implemented as a fiberglass-reinforced composite material. As a result, it is transparent inwards during the day and iridescent outwards at night . Due to the choice of the strictly geometric lines and the formal arrangement of the surfaces, the architectural design appears less organic than classically modern , with a certain deconstructivist reference to the surrounding high-density cuboid block development of the housing estate.

Chancel of the parish church

The chancel takes on the elliptical shape of the tower. The chairs are designed in the manner of simple wooden park benches, with rows of lanterns reminiscent of park furniture , and thus take up the shapes from the inner courtyard. The alignment of the pews to the sanctuary is chosen in such a way that the former are not aligned with the simple people's altar itself, but with the tabernacle at one focal point of the ellipse. The other focal point is the ambo . This subtle break in the usual axis guidance once again clarifies the motto of the outer facade. The windows of the Stations of the Cross, on the right next to the altar, in a rhythmic arrangement also visible on the outer wall, come from the workshop of Schlierbach Abbey in Upper Austria.

Bells

The church has three bells. Each of them is dedicated to a saint of Europe.

	volume	Weight in kg	Casting year	material	Caster
Brigitta bell	h1	310	1996	bronze	Grassmayr
Cyrillic Bell	d2	190	1996	bronze	Grassmayr
Method bell	e2	140	1996	bronze	Grassmayr

literature

• Roman Catholic parish church of St. Benedikt Leberberg. Pp. 48-55. In: Constantin Gegenhuber: Built prayers. Christian sacred architecture. New buildings in Austria 1990 - 2011. Art guide , Verlag Anton Pustet , Salzburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-7025-0632-2 .

Web links

Commons : Parish Church St. Benedikt am Leberberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Homepage of the parish of St. Benedikt am Leberberg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j} Parish center St. Benedikt . In: architektur im netz , nextroom.at - also reproduced there:
   Liesbeth Waechter-Böhm: parabolas, prisms, plexiglass. In: Spectrum , August 9, 1997.
2. ^ ^{A b} Articles on urban research, urban development and urban design, Volume 61 (pdf, wien.gv.at).
3. ↑ Built in 1997 according to plans by the architect Christoph Thetter; Evangelical community center 'Arche' . In: nextroom.at.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Entry on the parish church of St. Benedikt am Leberberg in the Austria Forum  (chapter sacred buildings)
5. ↑ ^{a b} History of the parish of St. Benedict ( Memento of the original from December 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , pfarre-st-benedikt.at; accessed on December 6, 2014.
6. ^ Parish center of Saint Benedict. In: arch INFORM .
7. ↑ St. Benedikt - Am Leberberg , Archdiocese Vienna: Parishes .
8. ^ Anton Bacher: St. Benedikt am Leberberg. . In: My district - district newspaper , March 3, 2014; accessed on December 6, 2014
9. ↑ Graf-Holztechnik: Church of St. Benedict, Vienna ( Memento of the original from December 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (on graf-holztechnik.at); Retrieved December 6, 2014 
10. ↑ TU Wien, Institute for Structural Engineering and Timber Engineering: Versetzen von Decken , p. 14 (pdf, on suchtwirtschaften.at; accessed on December 6, 2014).
11. ↑ cf. Photos: courtyard and interior on nextroom.at; Chancel ( Memento of the original from December 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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. on pfarre-st-benedikt.at. 
12. ↑ cf. Photos The Way of the Cross is made up of colored glass windows (No. 6) and the interior (No. 3) of the photo series to Bacher: St. Benedikt am Leberberg. In: My district .
13. ↑ Bells of the parish ( Memento of the original from December 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , pfarre-st-benedikt.at; accessed on December 6, 2014.

Coordinates: 48 ° 9 ′ 17.9 ″  N , 16 ° 27 ′ 49.7 ″  E