Parish Church of the Good Shepherd (Vienna)

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Parish Church of the Good Shepherd
Church interior
Christ the Good Shepherd . Statue of Otokar Čičatka on the facade of the parish church of the Good Shepherd

The parish church Zum Guten Hirten is a Roman Catholic church in Vienna's 13th district , Hietzing , at Bossigasse 68–70 on the corner with Schrutkagasse. It is the parish church of the parish Unter St. Veit-Zum Guten Hirten.

Emergence

The property acquired by the Archdiocese of Vienna in 1957 was given to the Congregation of the Oblates of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Latin Congregatio Oblatorum Beatae Mariae Virginis , order abbreviation : OMV) for the construction of a church including an order house. Construction began in 1963; the Ordenshaus (Lanterihaus) was opened in 1964 and the church was consecrated to the Good Shepherd on September 19, 1965 by Archbishop-Coadjutor Franz Jachym . On December 18, 1967, Archbishop Franz Cardinal König erected the parish exposition to the Good Shepherd, assigned to the parish of Ober St. Veit , and on January 1, 1990, it was elevated to a parish . On January 1, 2020, the parishes of Unter St. Veit and Zum Guten Hirten were merged to form the parish Unter St. Veit-Zum Guten Hirten. Since then, the parish church Zum Guten Hirten has been the parish church of the parish Unter St. Veit-Zum Guten Hirten.

Architecture and artistic equipment

The free-standing exposed concrete building with an irregular floor plan and triangular protruding choir and entrance was built between 1963 and 1965 according to the plans of the architects Ceno Kosak and Herta Kosak; Robert Krapfenbauer was responsible for the statics . After an originally planned bell tower fell victim to austerity measures, a bell carrier with the cement statue of Christ the Good Shepherd by the Slovak sculptor Otokar Čičatka (1914–1994) was built on the west side , who also designed the figures for the Christmas crib . The three bells, tuned to A - C sharp - E , were supplied by the Grassmayr bell foundry .

Above the main entrance is the 4 m high and 1.5 t heavy bronze sculpture Der Fischfang , created in 1992 by the Italian sculptor Gianluigi Giudici (born July 13, 1927 in Valmorea , Province of Como , Region Lombardy ) , which depicts Christ with two fishermen.

The portal door, the tabernacle in the form of a symbolic representation of the burning bush , the hanging steel cross with colored glass stones with the bronze figure of the crucified on the back, the star-shaped cauldron for the baptismal font on a column made of Untersberg marble , the ambo and the candlesticks come from Karl Hagenauer (born February 15, 1935 in Vienna ), as well as the two sacristy doors, one with a depiction of the proclamation of the Christmas peace by angels over the city of Vienna, the other with the Gospel text of the "Good Shepherd" ( Joh 10.11.14  EU ) is decorated.

At the invitation of the long-time pastor, Father Carlo Mondini OMV (1923–2005), Gianluigi Giudici furnished the church with the following works of art: the bronze relief The Resurrection on the altar wall, the bronze statue of the Madonna with the Child and the crossways reliefs. The Way of the Cross, created between 1966 and 1971, comprises 42 bronze figures approx. 1.1 m high. In memory of his son, who died early, Giudici immortalized him in the 8th station. The lead-framed, blue-white and red-white glass windows were created by the Austrian artist Isolde Joham (* 1932). For financial reasons, an electronic Johannus organ was purchased instead of a pipe organ.

The former religious house

The house named after the founder of the order, Father Pio Bruno Lanteri (1759-1830), which forms a building unit with the church, until 2011 contained the rooms of the Fathers of the Congregation of the Oblates of the Virgin Mary (OMV) and the pastor. Today a house chapel, library, kindergarten and other social rooms are part of this building. The Congregation of the Oblates of the Virgin Mary (OMV) has been active in Vienna since 1955, mainly in hospital pastoral care.

parish

Franz Cardinal König with Pastor P. Carlo Mondini OMV and two refugee children, Parish Church Zum Guten Hirten, Vienna Hietzing, April 17, 1994
Franz Cardinal König at a soccer game with youngsters from the parish Zum Guten Hirten, Vienna Hietzing, April 17, 1994; on the left in the picture Pastor P. Carlo Mondini OMV

The parish is located in the Vicariate Vienna City and in the City Deanery 13 . About 2000 Catholics live in the parish. Since the end of August 2011, the parish has not received pastoral care from the Congregation of the Oblates of the Virgin Mary. The current pastor is Stefan Reuffurth, who has also been dean in the city ​​dean's office 13 since September 1st, 2009 . On September 1, 2015, Pastor Reuffurth also took over the management of the neighboring parish Unter-St.-Veit . In the course of the Vienna Diocesan Process, the parishes of Unter-St.-Veit and Zum guten Hirten work more closely together.

The area of ​​the parish to the good shepherd is bordered by Gutzkowplatz, Preindlgasse and Hietzinger Hauptstraße in the north, by Spohrstraße and Beckgasse in the east, by Mühlbachergasse, Suppégasse, Hummelgasse, Nothartgasse and the imaginatively extended Tolstojgasse in the southeast, by Veitingergasse (to Jagdschlossgasse) in the south and from a line over Girzenberg, Meytensgasse and Geylinggasse in the west. In a clockwise direction, the parishes of Unter-St.-Veit , Maria Hietzing , Lainz-Speising and Ober-St.-Veit (all city dean's office 13) border.

Picture gallery

  • Parish Church of the Good Shepherd with main entrance, Bossigasse on the left, Schrutkagasse on the right

  • Bronze sculpture Fishing Gianluigi Giudici above the main entrance

  • Bronze sculpture of Madonna and Child by Gianluigi Giudici inside the church

  • Figures from the Christmas crib by Otokar Čičatka

  • Pastor P. Carlo Mondini OMV (1923-2005)

  • Commemorative plaque for Pastor P. Carlo Mondini OMV inside the church

literature

  • Felix Czeike (Ed.): Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 3, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-218-00545-0 , p. 202.
  • DEHIO manual: The art monuments of Austria. Vienna X. to XIX. and XXI. to XXIII. District XIII. Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.), Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-7031-0693-X , p. 174.
  • Harald Heger: The parish church to the good shepherd in Vienna-Hietzing. Little church leader. Ed .: Parish for the Good Shepherd. Self-published, Vienna 2005.
  • Franz R. Vorderwinkler, churches, monasteries, pilgrimage routes in Austria. Sacred cultural property in Vienna. Ed .: Kirche & Kultur, Verlag mediapress, Steyr 1996, ISBN 3-901195-11-4 , p. 160ff.

Web links

Commons : Parish Church Zum Guten Hirten (Vienna)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Diocesan Gazette of the Archdiocese of Vienna January / February 2020
  2. ↑ Otokar Čičatka (1914–1994) , accessed on August 28, 2016 (Slovak)
  3. ↑ Gianluigi Giudici ( Memento of the original of July 29, 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. , accessed on August 28, 2016 (Italian) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.artcurel.it
  4. ↑ Karl Hagenauer
  5. ^ Page of the parish homepage ( memento of October 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on October 10, 2014
  6. ↑ Page of the parish homepage ( Memento of the original from October 15, 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. , accessed October 10, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.pfarre-zumgutenhirten.at
  7. ↑ Parish gazette of the Vienna Unter-St.-Veit parish “To the Transfiguration of Christ”, 37th year - No. 3, Sep. 2015 - Nov. 2015  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.pfarreunterstveit.at  
  8. ↑ City map Vienna | Public bodies | Churches and religious communities | Catholic parish border

Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 0.9 ″  N , 16 ° 16 ′ 35 ″  E