Parish Church Immaculate Heart of Mary

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Residential building with parish church Herz-Mariä-Kirche (visible in the projection of the former choir room)

The branch church Herz-Mariä-Kirche (former church: Immaculate Heart of Mary ) is a Roman Catholic branch church in the 15th  Viennese district Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus (part of the Hildegard Burjan parish founded on January 1, 2017) and is located at Winckelmannstraße 34. It is integrated into a residential building.

history

Church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

At the end of the Second World War on February 21, 1945 - the target was the nearby central workshop of the Vienna Transport Company between Schwendermarkt and Siebeneichengasse on Jheringgasse - bombs fell on the houses in the parallel Winckelmannstrasse. The landlord with the ruins of house number 34 donated the landlord to the church ( Archdiocese of Vienna ) in gratitude for his salvation . This coincided with a vow by Cardinal Theodor Innitzer , according to which a new church should be built after the end of the war and later a new parish should be established. The lack of funding, however, prevented the plans for the next two years from being realized.

The history of a church at this address begins in 1947, when the then chaplain Georg Springer, later called the "rubble chaplain", together with volunteers and in over 16,000 working hours cleared away the rubble, cleaned it and prepared it for the building:

“- Hours worked by the volunteers - men and boys 7898 hours, women and girls 8328 hours, a total of 16,226 hours!
- Recovered material - 150,000 bricks (hand-cleaned), 200 m³ sand, 20 Dippel trees
- utility value - 108,000 S ! "

- Chaplain Georg Springer : Diary; quoted from: Parish history parish Schönbrunn-Vorpark

From March 1949 Kaplan Springer was able to build his “rubble church” from the old materials together with a construction company, which was consecrated on July 10, 1949 to the “Immaculate Heart of Mary”. The Vienna Municipality has issued a 10-year use permit for the emergency church. Despite the fact that a demolition order had to be expected at any time after the deadline had expired, the planning and financing for the new building - the second church - dragged on for a further few years. The parish had the provisional church building with the parish rooms rented in the adjacent old building (house number 32) until August 1969.

"Heart of Mary Church"

Structurally, today's church is a so-called house church , which is partly integrated - with the church entrance, the rear church space, the choir room and the parish rooms - in a condominium building with two stairs. The front part with the altar area is free-standing and protrudes into the courtyard. The orientation of the church is in a west-east direction.

The residential and church building was built from autumn 1969 to autumn 1972 according to plans by Josef Vytiska . On October 8, 1972, the church was consecrated as the "Herz-Mariä-Kirche" by Archbishop Franz Jachym . A large parish hall for 300 people was subsequently opened in January 1973 under the church. After minor and major renovations in the front of the church, the oversized choir was separated from the church in 1995 and set up for parish purposes.

Bell tower of the parish church St. Paul (Per Albin Hansson Siedlung Ost) with the bells of the parish Schönbrunn-Vorpark, which have been lent permanently

On the roof of the residential building, a bell house with sound direction towards the street was already attached to one of the two staircase heads on the flat roof during construction. Although this was not an ideal place for church bells, the dream of the pastor at the time, as well as the first pastor Georg Springer, came true. On March 15, 1973, the three bells were inaugurated by Auxiliary Bishop Jakob Weinbacher . Soon afterwards, the authorities ordered that the bells not be used due to noise pollution, so that the bells had to "remain silent" in future. Through the mediation of the pastor, an agreement was reached in 1996 with the parish of St. Paul in the Per Albin Hansson Ost Siedlung in Vienna's 10th district of Favoriten : Since then, they have been hanging and ringing in a free-standing bell tower on permanent loan.

Parish history

Initially set up as a pastoral care station, it was raised to a parish in 1955 and Kaplan Springer was appointed pastor. After he resigned himself to the parish at the beginning of 1975, several other pastors and parish moderators have followed him to this day.

On September 24, 2000, the Reindorf-Schönbrunn Vorpark Parish Association was formed with the neighboring parish Reindorf , which was dissolved again with effect from August 31, 2008.

On January 1st, 2017, the parish of Schönbrunn-Vorpark was merged with the parishes of Rudolfsheim and Neuffunghaus to form the parish of Hildegard Burjan. The parish church Schönbrunn-Vorpark has since been a branch church of the parish Hildegard Burjan.

Web links

Commons : Parish Church Immaculate Heart of Mary  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Diocesan Gazette of the Archdiocese of Vienna January 2017

Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 20.8 ″  N , 16 ° 19 ′ 14.6 ″  E