Schönbrunn Palace Chapel

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Interior of the Schönbrunn Palace Chapel

The Schönbrunn Palace Chapel is a Roman Catholic chapel in Schönbrunn Palace in the 13th district of Hietzing in Vienna . It is dedicated to the feast of the Marriage of Mary .

History and description

The patronage of Marriage Mariae was founded in 1745, originally the chapel of St. Consecrated to Mary Magdalene .

The architecture and most of the interior furnishings were designed by Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach . With Nikolaus Pacassi , the chapel was redesigned between 1743 and 1744, its surroundings were redesigned, the entrances moved and the chapel was re-consecrated in 1745. The rectangular hall with a semicircular apse is located in the corner between the east wing and the central wing of the palace, protrudes into the courtyard without the apse and corresponds in symmetry to the blue staircase in the other corner of the courtyard .

The chapel is vaulted with a needle cap barrel with belts, the walls are structured with Corinthian pilasters and surrounding entablature and open on the level of the first floor of the castle with large rectangular windows. There is rich stucco decoration in the vault (around 1700). The ceiling painting by Daniel Gran from 1744 shows St. Maria Madgalena and the theological virtues of faith, hope and love.

The high altar is probably a design by Nikolaus Pacassi: the crowning group of St. Trinity , the sarcophagus-like altar table and the mighty marble tabernacle in Tempietto shape. On the door there is a gold-plated lead relief with a Pietà , probably by Franz Kohl. The altarpiece Marriage Mariae is by Paul Troger from 1744. There are two side altars in the pilaster intervals with pictures by Giovanni Battista Pittoni from 1734 to 1735.

The surroundings of the chapel were redesigned by Nikolaus Pacassi with the oratorios on the bel étage with a late baroque early classicist oven, own altar niche and star parquet.

organ

Organ prospectus

The organ of the Schönbrunn Palace Chapel is a work by the Rieger company from 1984 and has 13 registers on two manuals and a pedal . The housings of the middle section and the two adjacent pipe fields date from 1771, the two outer parts of the prospectus were added in the course of the new building. It replaced an organ built in 1897 with nine registers on two manuals and a pedal. Before it was installed in the chapel in 1901, it was exhibited at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1900 .

I main work
Principal 8th'
Reed flute 8th'
Octav 4 ′
flute 2 ′
Mixture IV-VI 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
II positive
Covered (oak) 8th'
Open flute 4 ′
Principal 2 ′
Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Octav 1'
pedal
Subbass (oak / spruce) 16 ′
Bass flute 8th'
Choral bass 4 ′

literature

  • Dehio Handbook : The Art Monuments of Austria. Vienna X. to XIX. and XXI. to XXIII. District XIII. Monumental buildings. Schönbrunn Castle. Castle Chapel. Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.), Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-7031-0693-X , pages 197f.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Günter Lade: Organs in Vienna . Vienna 1990, p. 71 f.
  2. ↑ Organ . In: schlosskapelle.at . Retrieved June 22, 2017.

Web links

Commons : Schönbrunn Palace Chapel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 5.4 "  N , 16 ° 18 ′ 46.5"  E