Rochus Chapel (Vienna)

Rochus Chapel

The Rochus Chapel is a Catholic chapel in the 14th  district of Penzing in Vienna at Penzinger Straße 70 and is dedicated to the two saints of the plague, Rochus and Sebastian .

history

The chapel was built by the builder Georg Gerstenbrand in 1660 at the instigation of Pastor Georg Einwang. During the Turkish siege in 1683, the Rochus Chapel was also destroyed, but later rebuilt. In the 18th century, the Viennese traders Johann Perinet and Johann Nikola had the dilapidated chapel renovated; another renovation took place from 1842 to 1845.

Description and setup

inside view

The floor plan of the chapel room is a Greek cross with shallow cross arms and a gallery yoke. However, the room is set in a closed rectangle, so that the outside does not allow any conclusions to be drawn about the inside. This concept was also applied to the church on Leopoldsberg . The interior space is relatively high in relation to the length.

The high facade is in the classical style and ends in large volutes over the cornice. There is a clock in the center of the gable. A sheet metal hood adorns the roof turret. Above the entrance there is a mural depicting St. Rochus represents.

The high altar with a crucifixion group in the center dates from 1739 and is entirely painted except for the tabernacle and the cross with the figure of Christ. Above it, the eye of God is shown in a golden halo. The side altar painting is a work from 1844 by the painter Johann Höfel .

The parapet organ of the chapel

The parapet organ dates from 1794 and is the work of Joseph Effinger († 1809), a Pressburg organ builder from Mannheim .

Parish

The chapel belongs to the Roman Catholic parish Penzing St. Jakob of the Archdiocese of Vienna . Since 1995 it has been home to the Viennese parish of the Romanian Greek Catholic Church , which belongs to the common ordinariate for the Byzantine believers in Austria . Pastor is chaplain Vasile Lutai of the parish of St. Jacob.

Web links

Commons : Rochuskapelle  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• 2008 commemorative publication of the Penzing parish

Report from the Federal Monuments Office

• Homepage of the parish Penzing St. Jakob

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Romanian Uniate Church: Rochus Chapel ( Memento of the original from December 27, 2014 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 Dec. 27, 2014 
2. ^ Rochus Chapel in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
3. ^ Hans Schneider: The Austrian harpsichord: 600 years of harpsichord making in Austria; in memory of Hermann Poll from Vienna (1370-1401) ; Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna 2001
4. ↑ A spiritual roof in the new home  ( 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. .  Radio Stephansdom / Archdiocese of Vienna, series of foreign language congregations in Vienna , April 28, 2006

Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 24.8 "  N , 16 ° 18 ′ 18.7"  E