Salesian Church (Vienna)

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Salesian Church in Vienna-Landstrasse
View of Vienna from the Upper Belvedere with the dome of the Salesian Church in the middle
Ehrenhof portal at Rennweg 10

The Church and Monastery of the Visitation of Mary are a high baroque monastery complex on Rennweg in Vienna's 3rd district, Landstrasse . Salesian women have continuously lived in the monastery since it was founded in 1719 .

history

Salesian Church, Vienna (interior)

The Salesian convent Vienna was of Wilhelmine Amalie , the widow of Emperor Joseph I donated. The empress wanted to spend her old age there and also offer young girls from the nobility and upper middle class an educational institution. The foundation stone was laid on May 13, 1717, the day on which the future Empress Maria Theresa was born. Exactly two years later, on May 13th, 1719, the church was consecrated and the monastery was taken over by the first nuns. The spacious monastery complex has largely been preserved in its original form, individual modifications were carried out in 1782–86 by Johann Ferdinand Hetzendorf von Hohenberg and in 1806 by Lorenz Lechner.

investment

The rectangular monastery complex was planned by the architect Donato Felice d'Allio and completed in 1728. In the middle is the church, a longitudinally oval central building with a high, widely visible dome. The ceiling painting “Assumption of the Virgin” is by Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini . The monastery complex consists of eight courtyards, the two southern ones facing the Belvedere form the “Kaiserinnentrakt”, which Amalia Wilhelmine used as an apartment. Today there are facilities of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna . There are extensive gardens behind the monastery, between the Botanical Garden of the University of Vienna and the Belvedere Gardens . In front of the monastery facing the sloping Rennweg there is a courtyard , the courtyard portal on Rennweg is equipped with magnificent wrought iron bars from around 1730, above is a cartridge with the coat of arms of Empress Amalia Wilhelmine. The emperor stone is noteworthy as the building material used for the widow's seat, for the delivery of which the court building authority stonemason Elias Hügel was responsible.

organ

The organ of the Salesian Church was built in 1890 by the organ builder Johann M. Kauffmann . The Kegelladen instrument has 12 stops on two manuals and a pedal . The playing and stop action is mechanical.

I main work C – f 3
1. Drone 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Salicional 8th'
4th Flauto major 8th'
5. Octav 4 ′
6th Mixture III 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
II subsidiary work C – f 3
7th Violadigamba 8th'
8th. Lovely covered 8th'
9. flute 4 ′
Pedals C – d 1
10. Violon bass 16 ′
11. Sub bass 16 ′
12. Octavbass 8th'
  • Coupling: II / I, I / P
  • Playing aids: collective kicks (p, f, tutti)

literature

  • Dehio Vienna. II. To IX. and XX. District . Anton Schroll, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-7031-0680-8 , p. 65-69 .
  • Helga Penz (ed.): The monastery of the empress: 300 years of Salesian women in Vienna . Imhof, Petersberg 2017, ISBN 978-3-7319-0339-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on the organ

Web links

Commons : Salesian Church (Vienna)  - Collection of images

Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 45 ″  N , 16 ° 22 ′ 54 ″  E