Parish Church St. Florian (Vienna)

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Parish church hl. Florian in Margareten

The parish church of St. Florian is a Roman Catholic parish church in the 5th district of Vienna Margareten in the district of Matzleinsdorf on Wiedner Hauptstrasse 99.

It is home to the parish of St. Florian, one of four parishes in the parish for the Good News. ( Deanery 4/5 of the Vicariate Vienna City belonging to the Archdiocese of Vienna ). It is the holy Florian ordained . The building is under monument protection ( list entry ). Between 2005 and 2016 the church was also home to the Vienna Youth Church , a project of the Catholic Youth of the Archdiocese of Vienna that was discontinued in mid-2016.

Location description

The church is set back on the Wiedner Hauptstrasse . The right side of the nave borders on Laurenzgasse.

history

From 1961 to 1963, new church to plans by the famous German church architect was Rudolf Schwarz as reinforced concrete - skeleton built. After the death of the planning architect, the building was completed by Johann Petermaier and consecrated to St. Florian on October 20, 1963 by Archbishop Coadjutuor Franz Jachym .

From 2005 to 2016, in addition to the parish of St. Florian, the church also housed the Vienna Youth Church , a project of the Catholic Youth of the Archdiocese of Vienna. The building was adapted accordingly in 2007/08 for this purpose (heating, lighting, sound system, new entrance area to the right aisle).

As the successor to the old parish church of Matzleinsdorf (popularly: "Rauchfangkehrerkirche") and in her function as the Church of St. Florian as the patron saint of the fire brigade, the Florianimesse of the youth fire brigade of the Mödling district has been held there every year since the 1970s .

Church building

The church has an upright rectangular facade with lower side extensions. All facade surfaces are structured by windows and window sequences. Some of these are framed with red stone. On the northwest facade, the windows are grouped into a cross.

The building has a tall, covered central nave. The walls are completely dissolved in colored glass windows. The stained glass windows from the 1960s are the work of Giselbert Hoke . The nave is flanked on both sides by low, aisle-like extensions. The end of the choir is flat. There is a gallery in the entrance yoke.

organ

The organ from 1985 was built by Herbert Gollini .

Pietà

The claim, which is still often read, that the Pietà on the church forecourt is the old, renovated Marian column of the Favoritner wheel-cross execution site in Reder an der Strasse has been refuted. There are some significant differences in the figures of the two pillars that cannot be explained by renovation, as can be seen from old photographs of the wheel cross.

literature

Web links

Commons : Florianikirche  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Vienna - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. ( Memento from May 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) . Federal Monuments Office , as of June 26, 2015 (PDF).
  2. ↑ Floriani Mass of the youth fire brigade in Vienna ( Memento of the original from January 24, 2005 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 the BFK Mödling Archive 2004 website, accessed on December 20, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bfk-moedling.at
  3. ^ Anton Lang: High Court and Wheel Cross - the places of execution on Wienerberg. Favoritner Museum Blätter number 28, Museumsverein im Bezirksmuseum Favoriten , Vienna 2002, pp. 31–32; still wrong in Werner Schubert: Favoriten (1992), stated as being moved there.

Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 8 ″  N , 16 ° 21 ′ 46 ″  E