Parish Church of Starchant
The Starchant pilgrimage church of St. Theresa of the Child Jesus (known as: Parish Church Starchant ) is a Roman Catholic parish church in the 16th district of Vienna Ottakring (Mörikeweg 22). The foundation stone of the building, which was then planned as the Starchant pilgrimage church , was laid on December 9th, 1928. The church was built in 1928/1929 according to plans by Robert Hartinger and Silvio Mohr and on November 3rd, 1929 by Cardinal Archbishop Friedrich Gustav Piffl , inaugurated in the presence of Federal President Wilhelm Miklas .
building
The church was built as a free-standing hall (single-nave, 16.9 m high, 32.3 m long and a maximum of 21.8 m wide) with a squat tower (34.5 m including tower cross) on a high sloping, crimson plinth and as a rectangular hall with a wooden beam ceiling executed. The marble high altar with two kneeling angel figures originally comes from the castle chapel of Wilhelminenberg Castle . Behind the altar in the apse there is a life-size figure of St. Therese von Lisieux by the sculptor Alfred Crepaz (1904–1999). To the left and right of the altar frescoes on the front walls , on the left Therese in front of the cross, on the right Mother of God with Jesus child with a shower of roses, executed by Hilde Prinz-Ruess. Underneath there are two simple side altars (on the left the Holy Face, on the right Mary Altar). The pulpit shows an image of the good shepherd . The first popular altar, built in 1970, was replaced by the current one in 1996.
On the left side there is a monumental crucifix as a replica of the cross in the pilgrimage church Limpias (Spain) - this probably in the sense of a miraculous image that should turn the church into a pilgrimage church. (In Limpias, between 1919 and 1920, the wooden crucifix is said to have transformed and moved into Jesus Christ in person)
The glass windows were designed by Reinhold Klaus and show, among other things, events from the life of St. Therese (first communion, separation from father), her canonization and two depictions in her function as patron saint of the mission and the city of Vienna, as well as one of Kaiser-Karl -Gebetsliga donated window in honor of the last Austrian emperor, the now blessed Charles I.
The stations of the cross inside the church are executed as pictures in the Munich style after Feldmann. The church has three entrances, the main portal, a two-winged wooden gate with a second smaller wooden door embedded in each. The big gates are only opened on special occasions. In the anteroom behind it a large wrought-iron grille through which one enters the church. The other two gates are attached to the side, a single wing in the south and a double wing in the north.
Next to the main entrance on the right is another devotional chapel with a larger than life painting of St. Theresa on her death bed, surrounded by nuns of her order. The original three bells were confiscated during the Second World War, except for the smallest one (Sankt Josefs Gocke), and after the war they were renewed and a fourth was added. To the left of the altar is the sacristy and symmetrically opposite is the so-called weekday chapel. The rectory with direct (not used today) weather-protected access to the sacristy was added immediately. A crypt was built under the church, which is now used as an event hall (the so-called Theresiensaal). The building is the first church in Austria to be consecrated to St. Therese von Lisieux, the parish has a relic of the saint, which is kept in the left side altar.
The organ of the parish church was built by Johann M. Kauffmann and has five stops on a manual and pedal . It is located on the organ loft above the main entrance.
| volume | Weight | Caster | Casting year |
|---|---|---|---|
| dis´ | 1251 kg | Bell foundry Pfundner | 1957 |
| G | 577 kg | Bell foundry Pfundner | 1957 |
| b´ | 333 kg | Bell foundry Pfundner | 1951 |
| c´´ | 230 kg | Bell foundry Pfundner | 1932 |
Starchant parish
When the Starchant settlement came into being, the residents had to go to the Alt-Ottakringer parish church , from 1923 services were held in the hall of the Heim Siedlungsgenossenschaft, from 1929 in the newly built church. In 1939, ten years after the construction of the new church, the church was elevated to the parish church of the "Parish Starchant". Starchant is an area that extends over both the 14th and the 16th district of Vienna. It is also the highest parish in Vienna, as a pilgrimage church it is of subordinate importance today. The patronage (Kirtag) in honor of Theresa von Lisieux is celebrated on a Sunday in October (after October 1st) on the nearby Pfarrwiese. The parish was headed by Father Johannes Mazurek from autumn 2011 to spring 2016. Since September 2016, Ndubueze Fabian Mmagu has been the parish moderator of the parish.
The parish also has a branch church called Fatima Church , with which the residents of the parish in Vienna's 14th district receive pastoral care.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 49 ″ N , 16 ° 17 ′ 21 ″ E
Evangelical Church AB: Markuskirche
Orthodox Church: Neulerchenfelder parish church
Roman Catholic churches: Alt-Ottakringer Pfarrkirche | Parish Church of Mary Name | Neuottakringer Parish Church | Parish Church of Sandleiten | Parish Church of the Holy Spirit | Pilgrimage church to St. Theresa of the Child Jesus