Wolfsgraben parish church
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The Wolfsgraben parish church is a Roman Catholic parish church in the Lower Austrian community of Wolfsgraben . It is consecrated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and belongs to the Purkersdorf Dean's Office in the Vicariate Unter dem Wienerwald of the Archdiocese of Vienna . The church building is a listed building .
history
19th century
On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the mayor, the then mayor of the Wolfsgraben community, Josef Mitterstöger, provided a building site for the church. Construction began next to the old chapel , but the building material was only sufficient for the foundation and walls one meter high. When Mayor Josef Mitterstöger died in 1899, the temporary end of the building of the church was sealed.
20th century
In 1903 citizens of Vienna and Wolfsgraben founded a church building association, the first president was the Viennese textile manufacturer August Polivka. In 1906, Leopold Mitterstöger, son of the mayor, who died in 1899, expanded his father's donation, which enabled the construction of the church to continue. In the autumn of the same year the roof could be completed, but the money reserves were again exhausted.
The president of the church building association, August Polivka, asked Father Anton Maria Schwartz for help with the completion of the church building. The Kalasantine order took over the completion on the condition to build a small monastery. The building was inaugurated on October 24, 1907 by Auxiliary Bishop Godfried Marschall in the presence of Father General Anton Maria Schwartz.
On October 23, 1907, the Kalasantines moved into the newly created monastery. In 1913 a band was founded by Brother Ferdinand, which continued with interruptions until after the Second World War.
During the First World War, in the years 1916–1917, soldiers were billeted in the house.
The first war memorial in the Vienna Woods was inaugurated on Easter Sunday 1922 in Wolfsgraben.
On July 13, 1924, the cinema opened in the monastery hall. It was popular with visitors until the beginning of the Second World War .
On June 14, 1932, the Wolfsgraben parish expressed interest in its own parish and this was established on January 1, 1935.
In 1933 a cemetery was also laid out.
After the annexation to the German Reich , from 1941 onwards, Father Alexander Bredendick was no longer allowed to give religious instruction. His task was taken over by the retired secular priest Michael Bugram. In 1943 the pastoral lessons in the rectory had to be stopped. A research department of the Semperitwerke was housed in the cinema ; this fell under state secret. On February 13, 1945 bombs fell on Wolfsgraben, but they did no damage to the church.
After the end of the war in 1945, the church and the monastery were devastated and desecrated by acts of war. After laborious clean-up and repair work, church and monastic life began to flourish again under Father Franz Effenberger.
A fourth bell was dedicated on October 25, 1953. The members of the Wolfsgraben volunteer fire brigade helped with the installation.
A new organ was consecrated on January 16, 1956. Archbishop Franz König visited Wolfsgraben for the first time on June 3, 1956. In 1960, Father Franz Effenberger had the sacristy, baptistery and house chapel redesigned and a statue of Christ erected above the high altar. On August 9, 1964, Father Franz Effenberger died suddenly.
In 1977 the exterior of the church was renovated under Father Imre Dittrich and in 1979 the interior was renovated.
A few years later - in the meantime, Father Felix Poschenreithner had become pastor - a new construction phase began. On October 14, 1987, there were first discussions about the redesign of the rectory and the parish hall. The final approval for the new building was made on May 9, 1990, and the groundbreaking ceremony was held on March 23, 1991 by Prelate Rudolf Trpin.
Thanks to the energy and economic negotiating skills of Father Felix Poschenreithners and many volunteers, the new building progressed quickly, so that the parish center was completed around the turn of 1993/1994. On January 16, 1994, Cardinal Hans Hermann Groër gave the blessing . Thanks to the work of Father Felix, lively life blossomed in the new house; for the young crowd and the elderly, for parties and events it became a home.
With the consecration of the new people's altar on October 24, 2000, the renewed exterior and interior renovation of the church was completed and the house chapel completed.
architecture
The church was built in the neo-Romanesque style.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Alice Fröschl, Herbert Lechner: Church chronicle. Retrieved January 4, 2017 .
- ↑ Bernhard Lautner, Katharina Hiebler, Herbert Lechner: Festschrift 110 Years of Wolfsgraben Fire Brigade . Ed .: Wolfsgraben Fire Brigade. 1st edition. Wolfsgraben June 2016, p. 21 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 9 ′ 31.1 ″ N , 16 ° 7 ′ 20.5 ″ E