Parish church of St. Othmar under the white tanners

Parish church of St. Othmar under the white tanners

South-east view of the Church of St. Othmar under the white tanners
Basic data
Denomination	Roman Catholic
place	Vienna , Landstrasse , Austria
Building history
Client	Municipality of Vienna
architect	Friedrich von Schmidt
construction time	1863-1873
Building description
inauguration	1874
Architectural style	Neo-Gothic
Furnishing style	Neo-Gothic
Construction type	Basilica building
Function and title
Parish church
Coordinates 48 ° 12 '34.5 "  N , 16 ° 23' 27.5"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 12 '34.5 "  N , 16 ° 23' 27.5"  E

The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Othmar unter den Weißgerbern is located in the 3rd Viennese district of Landstrasse in the Weißgerberviertel on Kolonitzplatz. The parish is located in the Stadtdekanat 3 of the Archdiocese of Vienna belonging city Vicariate Vienna . It was in the years 1866 to 1873 in neo-Gothic style by architect Friedrich von Schmidt built and the holy Othmar ordained . It is the successor church of three smaller churches and chapels.

The church is a neo-Gothic brick building that is freestanding on all sides and dominates the area beyond the Kolonitzplatz. The building is a three-aisled basilica with an entrance tower, transept, ambulatory and chapel wreath in early Gothic forms. The choir faces northwest and the tower faces southeast. The building is under monument protection ( list entry ).

history

History of the white tanner settlement up to the building of a church

A small village called “Weihrochberg”, located far outside the city walls of Vienna on an arm of the Danube, can be traced as early as 1158. Since most of the residents earned their living as tanners , the place name "Weißgärber" (old spelling) developed from this. Pastoral care was provided by the cathedral parish of St. Stephan in Vienna . This was very problematic due to the frequent flooding of the Danube arm and the Vienna river as well as the high level of crime on the way, especially when accidentally . After the end of the Thirty Years' War the small town had fewer than 1,000 inhabitants, most of whom lived in poor conditions.

History of the predecessor churches of the suburb

Wolfgang Chapel

The Wolfgang Chapel can be seen on the left below the Stubentor (excerpt from the Albertine plan from 1421)

Until the first Turkish siege , in 1529, there was a chapel in the area of ​​“Scheffstrasse”, in the area of ​​today's Biberstrasse , which was consecrated to St. Wolfgang . This was the first pastoral care center for the people who lived “among the white tanners”.

→ Main article : Wolfgang Chapel in front of the Stubentor

Trinity Chapel

A foundation by the couple Urban and Sabine König and a donation from Empress Margaretha of 1000 guilders made it possible to build a small church in the area of ​​today's rescue company in Radetzkystraße . The chapel was consecrated to the Holy Trinity in 1673 , but was popularly called Margarethenkirchlein because of the Margaret picture donated by the Empress . The joy of the new chapel, however, only lasted for a short time: During the Second Turkish Siege, the Ottomans burned the small church and murdered the priest Johannes Reischacher. This event is depicted on a Secco painting in the Othmarkirche above the Margaret Altar, to the right of the main altar. As a reminder, a baroque trinity plague column was erected at the site of the chapel , which stands in front of the building of the Vienna Rescue Society. Originally this column stood on today's Rochusmarkt between Rochus- and Nikolaikirche .

Margaret Church

Lithograph of the Margarethenkirche before 1800

After the first chapel was destroyed to the ground during the second Turkish siege, the residents of Weißgärber wanted their own place of worship again. The Dissler couple (Disslergasse is named after them) provided the building site for a new parish church and parsonage at today's Radetzkyplatz - on the corner between Löwengasse and Radetzkystraße. Emperor Leopold I and the Prince-Bishop of Vienna Ernst von Trautson provided the white fermenters with considerable funds, so that the foundation stone was laid on April 7, 1690.

The new church was designed for about 300 believers. During the construction period, the city of Vienna bought the Weißgärber settlement , made it a suburb and took over the patronage of the Margarethenkirche. The church was not consecrated until 1746, 56 years after construction began. Like the previous building, it became a branch of the Cathedral Parish St. Stephan, in which curates worked from 1762 . Under Emperor Joseph II , the curate beneficiary of the Margaret Church was separated from St. Stephan and assigned to the newly created parish of St. Rochus and Sebastian on Landstraßer Hauptstrasse . Probably the most important beneficiary curate was Josef Franz Hegedys, Edler von Eröry. He worked as a pastor in the Margaret Church for 17 years and hired a Polish auxiliary chaplain without authorization. During his time as charity curate, among other things, the centenary of the consecration fell on July 12, 1846. As later canon of St. Stephan, he made a significant contribution to the construction of the Othmarkirche.

In 1875 the church and parsonage, in which the oldest school in Vienna's suburbs was located, had to give way to the increasing traffic. In the place of the rectory there is now a rental house, built by the architect Peter Gerl . Some furnishings have been transferred from the former Margarethenkirche to the new Othmarkirche, such as the altarpiece and two other pictures that have been hanging in the presbytery of the Othmarkirche since a renovation in the 1960s, as well as the baroque processional cross that is still carried at high feasts.

St. Othmar

Side view from the construction period

View from the tower over the roof of the left aisle

Due to the nearby customs office and the main mint , but also due to the Danube shipping and the establishment of the connecting railway , the Weißgerberviertel experienced a great boom. In 1851 the white tanners failed to arouse interest in the Viennese municipal council and two years later with Emperor Franz Joseph I in the construction of a new and large church, a rectory, a school and an independent parish. When Franz Joseph I tried the white tanners with the offer to name the settlement after His Majesty, but also without success. After many unsuccessful negotiations, the Archbishop of Vienna , Cardinal Othmar von Rauscher , approved the construction of a new neo-Gothic church and its financing in December 1862 . However, he made the condition that the order had to go to the then Viennese cathedral builder Friedrich von Schmidt . The cathedral master builder originally planned the building as a staggered church , which however was changed according to the wishes of the building authorities and was carried out in the form of a basilica . Schmidt was present at the debates in the Vienna City Council and preferred urban planning criteria to liturgical requirements. For example, he renounced an east facing of the altar. During the construction of this church, the urban planning criteria were of particular importance: The house of God stands on the garden of the former Palais Bechard , from which nine streets diverge in a radial pattern. It was important that the church was clearly visible from all sides and that the buildings were far enough away all around, as the church represented the new center of the settlement. The high church tower with a height of 80 meters, due to the short distance to the city center, was a symbol of the representation of the new Vienna, which received many new rights in the course of the city expansion. In May 1863, the building commission of the city council approved Friedrich von Schmidt's plans. The costs were put at around 400,000 guilders. The construction of the tower should take three years; six years were estimated for the entire structure. In addition, it was decided to build a rectory and two schools.

On May 17, 1866, the foundation stone was laid by Cardinal Othmar von Rauscher. The cathedral builder Friedrich von Schmidt was responsible for the planning and implementation, and the construction management for the builder Josef Hlávka . The construction of the church was delayed due to the Vienna World Exhibition in 1873 due to a lack of workers. After eight years of construction, Cardinal Rauscher consecrated the church to St. Othmar in a six-and-a-half hour celebration on August 24, 1873. Until December 31, 1873, the Othmarkirche was a branch church of the parish of St. Rochus and Sebastian on Landstrasse . On January 1st, 1874, when the parish of St. Othmar became independent, 15,052 citizens lived in the parish, of whom 12,010 were baptized Roman Catholics . The parish area was formed from parts of the parishes Landstrasse , Erdberg and Rennweg . The interior decoration of the church lasted until 1875. After Cardinal Rauscher's death, a relic of St. Othmar from his estate was donated to the parish. It is kept in a shrine in the right transept. The interior of the church was renovated for the first time in 1896 and has been electrically lit since 1904. During the First World War , in 1917, three of the four bells had to be delivered for the first time. In 1929 the boy scout group 9 settled in the parish area. In the years 1934 to 1936 the exterior of the church was renovated. In 1944 the church in the chapel was hit by a bomb and badly damaged. In the post-war years, the damage was repaired with the support of the municipality of Vienna. The repair of the damage was not fully completed until 1960. Under Pastor Josef Sedlmayer, the parish bought new benches for the front nave, adapted the old benches and installed a lightning protection system and electric heating. Before that, the church was heated by a large fireplace. Numerous renovations took place under Pastor Kaszimierz Wojtowicz. Among other things, the baptistery and the resurrection chapel were redesigned. The presbytery was renovated in 1993 under Pastor Jan Mazurek. Between 1998 and 2001 the exterior facade was renovated. Today around 6,000 Catholics live in the parish, which is bordered by the Wienfluss , Donaukanal , Wassergasse, Geusaugasse, Seidlgasse and Landstraßer Hauptstraße . From November 29, 2015 to October 2017, the St. Othmar parish formed the “Am Donaukanal” development area as part of the structural process of the Archdiocese of Vienna , together with the parishes of Am Schüttel , Erdberg and Neuerdberg .

List of pastors

Dariusz Schutzki

The list of pastors in St. Othmar goes back to 1874. Since 1983 it has been a religious parish of the Resurrectionists . The pastor of St. Othmar has been Dariusz Schutzki since September 2003, who has also been the Episcopal Vicar for the Vicariate of Vienna City since September 1, 2011 .

Surname	Effective time	annotation
Franz Riediger	1874-1891	before that last curate of the Margarethenkirche
Franz X. Weimar	1891-1914
Franz Hiessberger	1914-1924
Richard yoke	1924-1927
Franz Leibrecht	1928-1960
Josef Sedlmayer	1960-1982
Kasimierz Wojtowicz	1983-1992	first resurrectionist
Jan Mazurek	1992-2003
Dariusz Schutzki	since 2003	Dean from 2005 to 2011, Episcopal Vicar for the Vicariate of Vienna City since September 1, 2011

architecture

Church exterior

The neo-Gothic church is 52 meters long. The main nave is 8.70 meters wide and 22 meters high, while the two side aisles are each 4.70 meters wide and 15 meters high. In the front third of the main nave there are two transepts, each 12 meters long, which, like the main nave, are 22 meters high. The church was built of brick , the decorative elements are made of sandstone . The side fronts of the nave are structured by stepped buttresses and two-lane tracery windows . Behind a concluding three-pass balustrade , arcades of light with coupled pointed arched windows can be seen. The apses of the transept , about 12 meters long, protrude on both sides . These are also structured by two-lane tracery windows. Above the crossing there is an approximately 60 meter high crossing tower made of wood with a pointed helmet, which is clad with iron plates. The choir is surrounded by a wreath of pierced buttresses and a tracery balustrade. In the corners of the transepts, the pentagonal vestibules of the side exits and around the end of the choir with pointed arch windows are separated by a wall, the polygonal rooms of the sacristy are arranged. This creates the impression of a choir ambulatory. The sculptures are by Josef Pokorny .

tower

Spire

At the east end of the nave, a mighty, three-storey church tower with a hexagonal floor plan is half-retracted. The edges are provided with stepped buttresses studded with pinnacles . The 80 meter high tower is the fifth highest church tower in Vienna with that of St. Elisabeth's Church . The clock is located in the height of the helmet attachment and has in three of the six mounted gables dials from milk glass with pointers from cast iron , which are driven by a central motor. The time is controlled via a radio signal from the Municipal Department  33 of the City of Vienna. Above the clock gable wreath decorated with pinnacles is a pointed helmet made of crabs . The helmet is built from a 45 centimeter thick brick wall at the bottom and a 30 centimeter thick brick wall in the shape of a dodecagon at the top. A 30-centimeter-thick layer of stone is inserted at a distance of one meter, with crabs at the corners. In the lower area of ​​the spire there is a tracery gallery, to which a self-supporting spiral staircase leads inside. There are 303 steps from street level to this gallery. The top finial was created from several stone blocks. A free-hanging iron rod leads through this, at the lower end of which heavy weights are attached. This weight in the top of the tower helmet is intended to compensate for the fluctuations of the tower during storms, earthquakes and when the bells ring. There is a star and a crescent moon above the knob. 

The three gabled funnel portals of the tower are in front of the main portal of the church. A figure of Christ Salvator can be seen above the middle portal of the tower , while in Wimperg there is a figure of St. Peter above the left tower portal and one of St. Paul above the right tower portal . All three were created by Franz Melnitzky .

Below the tower there is a hexagonal, golden painted porch with a ribbed vault with a ring cap stone for raising the bells. The vault is stored on services. On the lid in the ring head stone a multi-rayed sun is depicted on a black background and a red cross.

All around are the remaining keystones. They bear the coat of arms of Weissgerber (green artichoke flanked by two golden billy goats on a red background), the coat of arms of Lower Austria (blue shield with a golden wall crown and five golden eagles), the coat of arms of Cardinal Othmar von Rauscher, the coat of arms of Austria , the coat of arms of the City of Vienna (black eagle with Viennese coat of arms on a gold background) and the coat of arms of the Habsburgs (black eagle with red-white-red shield on a gold background). On the tympanum above the main portal, two angels kneel in front of St. Margaret.

Church interior

Interior view from the organ gallery towards the high altar

Ground floor plan of the church

Inside the church is a three-aisled and five-bay basilica . In the eastern central nave yoke is the organ gallery with tracery balustrade over a pointed arch. Above the high pointed arch arcades on round pillars in the central nave are arcades of light with coupled three-leaf windows. The round pillars that separate the main nave from the side aisles are each provided with two services with leaf wreath fighters. Those facing the aisles reach up to the height of the capital of the main column, those facing the main aisle up to the mantelpiece . The ceiling in the nave is kreuzrippen- that in the aisles kreuzgratgewölbt . The crossing is square, the single-bay transept arms and the two-bay choir are closed by 5/8 ends. The side aisles continue into the first choir bay, where the two side altars are also located. In the presbytery there are two ogival oratorio openings with tracery parapets on both sides above the sacristy, which rest on consoles . In the keystone in the choir, Jesus is depicted as the “Lamb of God”. The pillars and arches are made of exposed stone; the wall is white and the choir is plastered in old pink up to the bottom of the windows.

Originally, the walls and pillars of the church were polychrome throughout and painted with carpet patterns up to the window sill . This created a uniform overall impression. The column capitals had gilded foliage on a blue background. The dark blue ceiling was painted with gold stars. In each yoke there were four representations of saints in round pictures. Banners on both sides of the entrance portal bore the inscriptions: “This church was built under the government of Emperor Franz Josef I by the municipality of Vienna as patron of the parish according to the plans and under the direction of the cathedral master builder for St. Stephan Friedrich Schmidt. Construction began in 1865 during the administration of Mayor Andreas Zelinka . Architects and site managers: Viktor Luntz 1865–1867, Friedrich Scholy. ”And“ On May 17, 1866, His Eminence the most revered Prince-Archbishop of Vienna, Joseph Othmar Cardinal Rauscher, laid the foundation stone. On August 24, 1873 at the time of the administration of the mayor Dr. Cajetan Felder inaugurated the house of worship by the same most honorable church prince. Architect and site manager Carl Schaden 1868–1873. Master builder Josef Hlavka. ”Figures from the Old Testament painted by the Jobst brothers on the side walls disappeared during the renovation work between 1939 and 1944.

Equipment of the church interior

The statue of St. Joseph was created by Ferdinand Stufflesser from Ortisei in Val Gardena (1901).

Most of the equipment comes from the construction period. The statues of Saints Anthony (1899) and Joseph of Nazareth (1901) under the gallery are works by Ferdinand Stuflesser from Ortisei in Val Gardena . The fingers of the figure of Saint Joseph were broken off on February 7, 2014 during an act of vandalism. Stufflesser had already created the mission cross in 1893. On the parapet of the organ gallery is a stone statue of St. Cecilia by Franz Melnitzky . The crossing pillars , also about seven meters high, carry colorfully painted statues of the four evangelists with their respective attributes on consoles under canopies, also created by Franz Melnitzky .

The neo-Gothic oak pulpit, decorated with tracery, stands free under the last arch of the main nave on the left side and has a double straight staircase. On the basket it shows the representation of Christ as a good shepherd in the form of a relief with a gilded background. The sound cover rests on two consoles and unloads freely in the dodecagon. Towards the top, the sound cover ends with a figure of John the Baptist under a square canopy.

In the side aisles there are two neo-Gothic wooden confessionals that are no longer in use.

presbytery

Presbytery with high and popular altar

The stone, neo-Gothic designed high altar is two-story and has a top with a niche above the tabernacle . This niche with a gold crucifix (during Easter with a colored resurrected one made of wood) is flanked by wooden statues, also in niches, which were created by Franz Melnitzky . They represent (from left to right) the saints Severin , Josef , Othmar and Leopold . Originally a fresco wreath ran around the wall in the choir room , which showed the baptism of Christ, the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem, the last supper of Jesus and Jesus on the Mount of Olives . This fresco band came from the brothers Franz and Karl Jobst . The fresco band was renewed by J. Kleinert in 1911 and removed during the renovation from 1939 to 1944. The oil painting on the left in the presbytery shows the "Transfiguration of St. Margaret" - made by Anton Maulpertsch or one of his students in 1767. The oil painting of St. Margarethe was originally the altarpiece of the Margaret Church. On the right wall of the presbytery, the painting shows the Holy Family , painted by Julio Giavani in 1860. The picture by Julio Giavani was originally intended as an altarpiece for the St. Othmar Church, but did not match the neo-Gothic style. Above the entrance door to the sacristy on the right side of the choir is a crowned image of the Virgin Mary after Lucas Cranach the Younger . This, too, was originally the inventory of the Margaret Church.

The presbytery was redesigned in 1993 by the architect Erwin Plevan . A new people's altar was erected and the communion grille , which originally separated the presbytery from the main nave, was moved a choir yoke in front of it, between the main and people's altar, in order to reduce the distance between the clergy and the people. The new people's altar was consecrated on November 7, 1993 by Cardinal Hans Hermann Groër from Vienna .

Altars in the aisles

Sacred Heart Altar

At the front end of the left aisle is the Sacred Heart Altar. The original altar table was made in 1889 by the carpenter Matthäus Oberndorfer and equipped with a multi-colored statue of the Sacred Heart. In 1942 the altar was redesigned, the chrome statue was removed, a Sacred Heart statue by Edwin Grienauer was erected and the secco painting gallery was painted in the background. This comes from Rudolf Holzinger and shows saints and supporters of the veneration of the Heart of Jesus and the sacrament of the altar. The attributes of the four evangelists are shown in the arch under the crowned heart of Jesus. A banner on the entire width of the fresco contains the text: "Pope Leo the thirteenth consecrated the world in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine to the most sacred heart of Jesus". Below this banner is Pope Leo XIII. depicted with tiara seated on a throne. The short banner underneath explains: "Leo XIII., Pontifex Maximus". On the left side of the picture is St. Margareta Maria Alacoque , and at the same height - on the right side - St. Francis de Sales with believers kneeling in front of him. On the tape underneath, which runs across the width of the wall, is written: "I praise you, Father, Lord of Heaven and Earth." Below on the left half of the picture is the holy nun Gertrud with two other sisters and on the right - at the same height - the blessed Dominican priest and mystic Heinrich Suso is depicted. On the deepest picture level, there is a portrait of St. Agnes of Rome on the left and a picture of the martyrdom of St. Tarsicius on the right . Underneath there is also a banner running across the entire width: “Because my yoke is gentle and my burden is light. Matthew 11. Chapters 27.-30. Vers. “At the height of the altar there are two more wall inscriptions. On the left you can read: “Come to me, all of you who are troublesome and burdened, I want to refresh you.” On the right side it says: “Take my yoke upon you, learn from me, because I am meek and humble of heart. "

Margaret Altar

The Margaret altar at the end of the right aisle bears a statue of St. Margaret by Edwin Grienauer, also from 1942. Originally there was a polychrome statue of St. Margaret, which was erected in 1875. In the background, the Secco painting by Rudolf Holzinger , which extends to the vault, depicts the story of the Margarethenkirchlein in several sections. At the top you can see Christ on the cross between two angels, underneath the burning first white tannery church; in front of it lies the first white tanner priest Johannes Reischacher, murdered by the Ottomans. To the left of the church are two soldiers from the Christian Defense Army, and to the right are two Ottomans. Above it runs a banner with the inscription "Anno Domini 1683, on Margaret's Day the Turks stormed the church, set it on fire and murdered the pastor in front of the tabernacle." On the left below the soldiers are the two donors of the first church, the butcher couple Urban and Sabine King depicted. The latter holds a blueprint for the church; the accompanying banner bears the words: “The house of God was built in honor of the Most Holy Trinity.” The picture on the right shows Pope Clement X and Empress Margaretha of Spain . She holds in her hands the picture of Margaret that she donated to the church. A youthful bearer of the coat of arms with the papal coat of arms walks in front of the Pope, in front of the Empress a standard bearer with "Empress Margarethe" written on his banner. The accompanying banner reads: “At that time reg. Pope Clement X and Emperor Leopold I. ”Below the König couple, they are shown again. Both have just woken up and are sitting on the edge of their marital four-poster bed. The butcher's coat of arms with two butcher's axes is visible at the woman's feet. On the right, at the same height, the couple's dream is shown: The three deceased children appear floating on a cloud with a model of the church. A cemetery with a chapel is indicated below them to show that the children are no longer alive. The fresco is closed at the bottom by a long banner: “In 1673, Urban and Sabine König donated the first little church under the Weysgerbers. The pious empress dedicated 1,000 guilders and a picture of Margaret ”. To the left of the banner is a scholar or monk who is recording the above incident on parchment. At the right end of the banner you can see the coat of arms of the white tanners: two billy goats jumping over a bush as a symbol for the gardeners and tanners who live there. There are further inscriptions at the altar level. On the left side: “Anno Domini 1673, when Leopold I was German Emperor and Clement X. Pope, the married couple Urban and Sabine König, kk court and bourgeois butchers, vowed the first church 'under the Weysgerber' in honor of d . To build the Most Holy Trinity ”. On the right side is: “Your three children, who died at Pentecost of the same year, asked for it on the night of Trinity Sunday in a dream face. 1683, on July 13th, the Turks d. Church and murdered the first pastor Johannes Reischacher. "

Altars in the transept

Crucifixion Altar

The crucifixion altar

At the left end of the transept is the stone cross altar with a polychrome crucifixion group in front of a star-studded golden background. Maria has folded her hands while the grieving Johannes touches his face with a cloth. The INRI inscription on the cross is flanked by the sun and moon. An angel holds the crown of thorns above the cross. To the right and left of the crucifixion group there is an angel under a canopy on a console. They are arranged like shrine guards at medieval winged altars. Like the angel above the cross, they too hold Arma Christi in their hands: the angel on the left a lance and nails, the angel on the right a hammer and a sponge with vinegar. The crucifixion altar is said to come from the Margaret Church from 1822. It is flanked by two stone figures of Saints Theresa (left) and Joseph (right). The two stone statues in the left transept were created in 1946/47 by Adolf Wagner von der Mühl, who himself was a parishioner of St. Othmar. Every year between Good Friday and Easter Vigil , the holy grave is built at the foot of the altar.

Maria Coronation Altar

Maria Coronation Altar

At the right end of the transept is the stone Maria Coronation Altar with statues by the sculptor Franz Melnitzky, which were created while the church was being built. The Maria Coronation Altar is flanked by two stone statues of Saints Antonius and Jude Thaddäus , which were created in 1942 by Erwin Grienauer. In 1935 an anonymous donor donated the Bachlechner nativity set up in front of this altar every year during the Christmas season.

Chapels

Baptistery

In the mid-1980s, the baptistery with a baptismal font made of gray marble was rebuilt. On the left and right of the wall are two copper panels painted in blue and turquoise tones. Like the windows in the Resurrection Chapel, they were designed by Hannelore Forstreiter. The left panel shows the baptismal motto “I baptize you in the name of the Father, and of the Son and the Holy Spirit.” On the right panel, the sea is painted with a dove and a fish. The baptismal font is made of cut granite. The lid with a relief of a dove in the middle is made of bronze. On it is engraved all around: "In nomine patris et filii et spiritus sancti" (In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit). The keystone shows a pelican .

Chapel of Reconciliation

The Chapel of Reconciliation is housed in the eastern corner of the right transept. Today it is used exclusively as a discussion room. To the right of the entrance is a stone niche with the relic of St. Othmar.

Golden Madonna Chapel

In the chapel there is a golden Madonna sculpture by Franz Barwig the Elder standing on a winding column . This was crowned in 1988 by the Archbishop of Vienna, Hans Hermann Groër. The dove of the Holy Spirit forms the keystone of the vault . Before 1939 there was a Lourdes grotto on the site of the chapel . To the left of it, Cardinals Józef Glemp of Warsaw and Hans Hermann Groër of Vienna unveiled a bronze commemorative plaque for the saint from more recent times at the Maximilian Kolbe Festival on August 14, 1987.

Resurrection Chapel

Since 1990, the Resurrection Chapel has been located in the former sacristy tract, which is used to celebrate weekday masses and consists of two broken polygonal rooms. The windows were created by Hannelore Forstreiter, a parishioner. The colored windows show the exit of the river . There is a harmonium in the back . In the front part is the presbytery raised by one step. The walls of the chapel are covered with wooden strips. The popular altar, the ambo and the floor in the presbytery are also made of this material. The seating for priests and altar boys was originally in the church choir.

Way of the Cross

Rudolf Holzinger created the Way of the Cross in 1944 as a frieze-like fresco. He had also painted the background of the side altars in 1943. Before that, the entire church was painted in dark colors and equipped with a Way of the Cross made of framed oil paintings. In 1961 Franz X. Wolf restored the Way of the Cross.

organ

The first organ of the parish church of St. Othmar unter den Weißgerbern was built by Carl Hesse in 1873 as a two manual instrument with 28 registers . Before it was installed in St. Othmar, it was presented at the World Exhibition in 1873 , and Hesse received a prize for this work. During the First World War , the army administration confiscated the prospect pipes; Until it was rebuilt by Kauffmann in 1931, playing the organ was only possible with difficulties and restrictions. An organ fund founded after the First World War had to be abandoned due to inflation in 1922.

Organ by Johann M. Kauffmann (1931) in the case of the original organ

In 1931 the Viennese company Johann M. Kauffmann rebuilt the organ using the existing case and the existing pipe material. In this context, electrical power was used for the first time in Vienna on an organ “ from the console to the pipework and to drive the fan ”. Since then, the instrument has had 35 registers on three manuals and a pedal . The new organ was ceremoniously inaugurated on November 22nd, 1931. In 1961 the organ, damaged in the war, was repaired by the builder company, with the push buttons under the keyboards being renewed and dominos being built into the footrest; In 2001 the organ was completely refurbished.

I Manual C-g 3 Bourdon 16 ′ (H) Principal 8th' Hollow flute 8th' (H) viola 8th' (H) Dolce 8th' Octav 4 ′ flute 4 ′ (H) Octav 2 ′ (H) Cornett III-V 8th' Trumpet 8th'

II Swell C – g 3 Violin. Principal 8th' Darling Dumped 8th' Transverse flute 8th' (H) Salicional 8th' Quintatön 8th' Praestant 4 ′ mixture 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ (H) clarinet 8th' Tremulant

III Manual C-g 3 Covered 16 ′ (H) Remote principal 8th' Vox Coelestis 8th' Aeoline 8th' Fugara 4 ′ (H) Intoxicating fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ oboe 8th'

Pedal C – f 1 Principal bass 16 ′ (H) Sub bass 16 ′ (H) Violon bass 16 ′ (H) Quintbass 10 2 ⁄ 3  ′ (H) Octavbass 8th' (H) cello 8th' Octav 4 ′ (H) Cornett III 5 1 ⁄ 3  ′ trombone 16 ′

• Pairing :
  • Normal coupling: III / I, III / II, II / I, I / P, II / P, III / P
  • Sub-octave coupling : II / I
  • Super octave coupling : III, II, II / I
• Playing aids : Fixed combinations (pp, p, mf, f, tutti), 2 free combinations, pipe works on, crescendo roller, manual register activation, automatic pedal switching, trigger
• annotation

(H) = Taken from the Hesse organ

Bells

The so-called death bell in the sanctuary tower (Vierungsturm)

Noon bells

St. Othmar has four bells. The bells I to III hang in the main tower, bell IV, the so-called "death bell", hangs in the sanctuary above the.

	volume	Diameter in cm	Weight in kg	Casting year	material	Caster
Bell i	ais'	120	805	1920	steel	Boehler
Bell II	cis ''	100	460	1920	steel	Boehler
Bell III	c ''	76	258	2000	bronze	Grassmayr
Bell IV	e ''	60	130	1868	bronze	Ignaz Hilzer

The original three bells of the main tower had to be given as a " metal donation " for armaments purposes during the First World War . After the war, only bells I and II could initially be purchased. As part of the repair work after the Second World War , the bell drive was electrified. The peal was not completed until 2000 when a family belonging to the parish donated the missing third bell, cast by the Grassmayr bell foundry in Innsbruck.

The death knell (IV) in the sanctuary tower above the crossing survived both the First and Second World Wars.

Others

The "Weißgerber Advent Market" in 2005

St. Othmar was the wedding church of numerous personalities, including the composer Carl Michael Ziehrer (September 1, 1888), the later State Chancellor and Federal President Karl Renner (February 28, 1897) and the poet Josef Weinheber (1944).

Among other things, the emeritus diocesan bishop of Linz Maximilian Aichern and the former vicar general of the Archdiocese of Vienna and co-founder of the pastors' initiative Helmut Schüller were baptized in this church .

From 1968 Erwin Ortner gathered a small group of contemporaries in the parish of St. Othmar, from which later the youth choir, 1968 the chamber choir St. Othmar and 1972 the Arnold Schoenberg choir emerged.

Since 2003, the parish of St. Othmar has organized the "Weißgerber Advent Market" on Kolonitzplatz in front of the church every year, which is open throughout Advent and is run by volunteers from the parish of St. Othmar.

literature

• Wolfgang Czerny, Robert Keil a. a .: Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria: Vienna. II. To IX. and XX. District, III. Landstrasse district . Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-7031-0680-8 , p. 72-73 .
• Felix Czeike : Historical Lexicon Vienna . tape 5 . Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1997, p. 607 .
• Parish office of St. Othmar under the white tanners: 125 years of St. Othmar under the white tanners . Vienna 1998.

Web links

Commons : St. Othmar unter den Weißgerbern  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Website of the parish of St. Othmar

Remarks

1. ↑ In a letter of thanks from the white tanners to the archbishop it said, among other things: “Shouldn't the new church be named Othmar Church after its founder and consecrated in honor of the holy abbot Othmar? ... ".

Individual evidence

1. ^ Géza Hajós: Austrian art topography. Volume XLI. The art monuments of Vienna. The churches of the III. District . Verlag Anton Schroll, Vienna 1974, ISBN 3-7031-0373-6 , p. 316 .
2. ^ Vienna - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. (PDF), ( CSV ). Federal Monuments Office , status: 23 January 2019.
3. ↑ Peter Csendes, Ferdinand Opll: Vienna - History of a City: Volume 2: The early modern residence (16th to 18th century) . Böhlau Verlag, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2003, ISBN 3-205-99267-9 , p. 91 .
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h} Parish office of St. Othmar under the white tanners: 125 years of St. Othmar under the white tanners . Vienna 1998, p. 8th ff .
5. ↑ Peter Scheuchel: Sacred places - saints and orders. The Vienna suburbs 2 to 9 . 1st edition. Studienverlag, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-7065-5247-9 .
6. ^ Felix Czeike: Historisches Lexikon Wien, Volume 5 . Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1997, p. 607 .
7. ↑ ^{a b c d} Parish Fünfhaus-Maria vom Siege: Friedrich von Schmidt and his Viennese landmarks. Booklet accompanying the special exhibition in the Roman Catholic. Parish church of Fünfhaus-Maria vom Siege in Vienna. On the occasion of the 120th anniversary of his death on January 23, 2011 . Vienna 2011, p. 20th f .
8. ↑ ^{a b c d e} parish chronicle
9. ↑ ^{a b} Chronicle - Franz Riediger ( Memento of the original from October 17, 2013 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. 
10. ↑ Chronicle - Franz Weimar ( Memento of the original from October 17, 2013 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. 
11. ↑ Chronik Hiessberger ( Memento of the original from October 17, 2013 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. 
12. ↑ Chronicle - Richard Joch ( Memento of the original from October 17, 2013 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. 
13. ↑ Chronicle - Franz Leibrecht ( Memento of the original from October 17, 2013 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. 
14. ↑ Chronicle - Sedelmayer ( Memento of the original from October 17, 2013 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. 
15. ↑ Chronicle - Kaszimierz Wojtowicz ( Memento of the original from October 17, 2013 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. 
16. ↑ Chronicle - Jan Mazurek ( Memento of the original from October 17, 2013 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. 
17. ^ Archdiocese of Vienna: St. Othmar among the white tanners. Retrieved April 7, 2014 . 
18. ↑ Parish gazette of the parish of St. Othmar unter den Weißgerbern (July / August 2015) ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 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. 
19. ^ Parish gazette. Retrieved February 12, 2018 . 
20. ↑ Our Chronicle. (No longer available online.) Web presence of the parish of St. Othmar, archived from the original on October 17, 2013 ; Retrieved April 22, 2013 . 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.  
21. ^ Archdiocese of Vienna: Episcopal Vicar Dariusz Schutzki. Retrieved July 19, 2013 . 
22. ↑ ^{a b} Parish sheet of the parish St. Othmar Vienna III., Vol. 63 (February 2010)
23. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j} Wolfgang Czerny, Robert Keil u. a .: Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria: Vienna. II. To IX. and XX. District, III. Landstrasse district . Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-7031-0680-8 , p. 72 f .
24. ↑ The tallest church towers in Austria. Retrieved August 24, 2012 . 
25. ↑ Radio clocks in Vienna ( Memento of the original dated February 3, 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. (PDF; 26 kB) 
26. ↑ ^{a b c} August Köstlin: The parish church of St. Othmar among the white fermenters in Vienna. Designed and executed by kk Oberbaurath Mrs. Schmidt. By V. Luntz . In: Allgemeine Bauzeitung with illustrations . No. 46 , 1881, p. 83 f . ( online [accessed May 7, 2013]).
27. ↑ ^{a b} 100 years of St. Othmar among the white tanners (1873–1973) - description of the church
28. ↑ Main ship ( Memento of the original from March 2, 2013 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. 
29. ↑ ^{a b c} parish chronicle from 1944 (available in the parish office)
30. ^ Vandalism in Viennese churches. News, accessed April 2, 2014 . 
31. ↑ ^{a b c} Excerpt from the parish chronicle - exhibited on the left below the tower
32. ↑ Description at the picture
33. ↑ Parish Chronicle Volume 1993 (publicly available in the parish office)
34. ↑ Crucifixion Altar. (No longer available online.) Web presence of the parish of St. Othmar, archived from the original on October 6, 2014 ; Retrieved April 22, 2013 . 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.  
35. ↑ Coronation Altar. (No longer available online.) Web presence of the parish of St. Othmar, archived from the original on October 19, 2014 ; Retrieved April 22, 2013 . 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.  
36. ↑ Parish Chronicle Volume 1988 (publicly available in the parish office)
37. ↑ Parish Chronicle Volume 1987 (publicly available in the parish office)
38. ↑ Chapel of Resurrection. (No longer available online.) Web presence of the parish of St. Othmar, archived from the original on October 6, 2014 ; Retrieved April 22, 2013 . 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.  
39. ^ Parish chronicle (vol. 1990) - publicly available in the parish office
40. ^ ^{A b c} Günter Lade: Organs in Vienna . Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-9500017-0-0 , p. 170.
41. ^ ^{A b} Hermann Gassner: Festschrift for the consecration of the new organ in the parish church "St. Othmar among the white fermenters ”in Vienna III, Kolonitzplatz, on November 22nd, 1931 (feast day of St. Cecilia) for the patronage of the parish . Catholic Action, Vienna 1931, p. 8th ff .
42. ^ ^{A b} Günter Lade: Organs in Vienna . Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-9500017-0-0 , p. 172.
43. ^ ^{A b} Johannes Mende (editor): St. Othmar among the white tanners. Church and congregation . Vienna 2011, church leader of the parish St. Othmar, p. 9.