Salesian Church (Vienna)
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
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.
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- 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
Web links
- Web presence of the Salesian convent in Vienna
- Salesian Church on Planet-Vienna.com
- Salesian Church as "Monument of the Month" August 2001 ( Memento from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the Federal Monuments Office
Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 45 ″ N , 16 ° 22 ′ 54 ″ E