Sankt Ursula (Vienna)

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St. Ursula Monastery and church facade in Johannesgasse in Vienna
Interior of the St. Ursula University Church
Hradetzky - organ in St. Ursula

The St. Ursula Church is a Roman Catholic church at Seilerstätte 26 in Vienna's 1st district, Innere Stadt .

history

In the years 1666 to 1745 a multi-courtyard monastery complex was built under the direction of the Italian master builder Anton Erhard Martinelli for the Order of the Ursulines . The Order of Women came to Vienna in 1660 at an invitation from Empress Eleonore and opened a school upon arrival. This was carried out from the time the monastery was completed until 1960 and then moved to the Mauer district in Vienna- Liesing .

Klemens Maria Hofbauer came to Vienna in 1808 and served as a pastor, first in the Minorite Church and then as chaplain and rector of the Ursulines in the St. Ursula Church.

From 1963 to 1968, the monastery complex was converted for use by the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna .

church

The Ursuline Church in the Baroque style has a rich stucco decoration . The high altar picture depicts the death of St. Ursula and is by Johann Spillenberger (1628–1679), but is possibly a copy by the Czech painter Johann Franz Greippel (1720–1798). The side altars are also painted between baroque and classicism . Noteworthy is a Holy Sepulcher chapel with a group of burials.

The church is used by the Institute for Organ, Organ Research and Church Music at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna as a practice and performance space. In this context, the church services are accompanied by the church music choir as well as students and teachers from the institute. Organ concerts are also held in the church.

organ

The organ , built in 1820 by Friedrich Deutschmann (1757–1829), was moved to the branch church of St. Laurenz in Katzelsdorf an der Leitha . The new organ was built in 1968 by the organ builder Gregor Hradetzky in Krems and has 28 stops on two manuals and a pedal . Gregor's son Gerhard was responsible for the arrangement and construction of the organ, while Oswald Wagner took care of the intonation of the pipes.

Disposition :

I. Hauptwerk C – g 3
Quintadena 16 ′
Principal 8th'
Reed flute 8th'
Octave 4 ′
Pointed flute 4 ′
Super octave 2 ′
Forest flute 2 ′
Sesquialtera II 2 23
Mixture V-VI 1 13
Trumpet 8th'
II. Breastwork C-g 3
Covered 8th'
Black viola 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Reed flute 4 ′
Octave 2 ′
Quint 1 13
Sharp IV 23
Krummhorn 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
Principal 16 ′
Sub-bass 16 ′
Octave 8th'
Covered 8th'
Chorale bass 4 ′
Rauschpfeifer IV 2 23
Night horn 2 ′
bassoon 16 ′
Trumpet 8th'
shawm 4 ′
  • Wind chests : slider chests
  • Mechanical action and stop action
  • Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P; Sill / breastwork

World premieres

  • 2002: The astonishment of Ezekiel . Church opera by Wolfgang Sauseng .
  • 2010: Fair . Latin Ordinarium from Josef Sagmeister.
  • 2010: Ruut . Church opera in 7 pictures by Florian Maierl.
  • 2010: En Arche (i) . Four invocations for choir and instruments (flute, clarinet, 2 bass clarinets, 3 trombones, 2 double basses, drums) by Michael Radulescu .

Web links

Commons : Sankt Ursula (Vienna)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alfred Missong : Holy Vienna. A guide through Vienna's churches and chapels. Gsur & Co., Vienna 1933.
  2. Lynne Heller: Church of St. Ursula , magazine Kunsträume der mdw, December 2008, p. 29.
  3. Wolfgang Sauseng and Andreas Peterl, eds .: Organum XX., Stations of Austrian organ culture in the 20th century. In: Viennese contributions to organ and church music, Volume IV, Vienna 2018.

Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 15.4 ″  N , 16 ° 22 ′ 25.6 ″  E