Parish Church of St. Joseph of Margareten
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The parish church of St. Josef zu Margareten is on the corner of Schönbrunner Strasse and Ramperstorffergasse in the 5th district of Margareten . The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Josef belongs to the City Deanery 4/5 in the Vicariate Wien Stadt in the Archdiocese of Vienna . The church is a listed building .
history
The church was built on the site of the Sonnenhof hospital chapel from 1765 to 1769 with the master builder Franz Duschinger , consecrated in 1771 and made a parish church in 1783. In 1903 a porch was built and a tower was added. In 1911/1912 the church was expanded by adding a second yoke. From 1957 to 1959 a parish hall was added to the choir. Restorations were carried out in 1933 and 1955.
architecture
The late baroque church building has a tower facade with a shallow central projection and a frame structure with a cranked cornice, has a tower from 1903 placed on an attic with round arched sound windows, clocks and a curved helmet with a lantern. In front of it are four stone figures of Saint Stephen, Sebastian, Rochus and Johannes Nepomuk from the 2nd quarter of the 18th century on pedestals, which were transferred here from the Johannes Nepomuk Chapel on the Schönbrunn line. There is also a stone figure of Margaret from the beginning of the 18th century in front of the portal. A plaque commemorating Franz Schubert's blessing shows a portrait relief by Robert Ullmann (1928).
Two cross-shaped domed room units with a semicircular apse and a semicircular closing entrance yoke form the interior of the church. Above the entrance yoke is an organ loft arched under a stitch cap with a laterally extended parapet. The walls are structured with pilasters, frame fields and a cranked cornice. The ceilings are hanging domes, the cross arms are barrel vaulted. Wall paintings Rupert with R. Sagmeister, Leopold, Clemens, Heiliger and Evangelisten are inscribed in the vaults. The dome tops show wreaths of rays. The glass windows from the beginning of the 20th century show figural representations of saints, in the apse ox eyes with flower vases in frames and on the gallery Cäcilia (1913).
Furnishing
The altars were designed by the architect Johann Ferdinand Hetzendorf von Hohenberg (1771). The high altar in aedicule form with red marble with plait decoration and partly gilded figures of angels and the holy. Leopold and Josef and the gable relief Escape to Egypt and shows the altarpiece Holy Family by the painter Bartolomeo Altomonte and an image of the Madonna and Child framed by a ray from the beginning of the 18th century. The side altars with aedicular frames have canteens with volute tabernacles. The left altar bears the figures Theresa, Barbara and shows the altarpiece Anna, Maria, Josef by the painter Johann Gottfried Auerbach from the 3rd quarter of the 18th century. The right altar bears the figures of Christophorus, Johannes Nepomuk and shows the altarpiece Theresa von Avila by Johann Gottfried Auerbach.
The organ case is from 1821. The organ was built by Gerhard Hradetzky (1987).
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Vienna suburbs 1993 . 5th district, churches, Margaretner parish church hl. Josef, pp. 210-211.
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Buddhist temple: Shaolin temple
Roman Catholic churches and chapels: Church of the Resurrection (Siebenbrunnenfeldgasse) | Florianikirche (Wiedner Hauptstrasse) | Herz-Jesu-Kirche (Einsiedlergasse) | Hundsturm Chapel (Schönbrunner Strasse) | St. John the Baptist (Margaretenstrasse) | St. Josef zu Margareten (Schönbrunner Strasse) | Poor Clares Adoration Church (Gartengasse)
Disused sacred buildings: Jubilee temple (former synagogue) | Florianikirche
Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 27.5 ″ N , 16 ° 21 ′ 17.1 ″ E