Servitenkirche (Vienna)

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The Servite Church in 1724. Engraving by Salomon Kleiner .
Servite Church
Interior of the church

The Servite Annunciation is a Roman Catholic parish in the 9th  Viennese district of Alsergrund . The baroque sacred building dates from the 17th century and became the architectural model for numerous later baroque churches. It was a religious order of the Servites , from 1783 until today it has been the parish church of the Alsergrund parish in Rossau in the Rossau district . It is considered to be one of the most culturally and historically important suburban churches in Vienna from the early baroque period .

history

On September 16, 1638 the Servite Order of Florence received from Emperor Ferdinand III. the approval to set up a branch in Vienna - as early as 1613 he had set up the first branch north of the Alps with the monastery in Innsbruck .

The church was built by Carlo Martino Carlone based on a design influenced by Andrea Palladio and dedicated to the Annunciation . The groundbreaking took place on November 11, 1651. The church was consecrated in 1670 , with the completion of the interior work took another seven years.

The design of the Altar of Sorrows comes from Antonio Beduzzi , on which there is also a Pietà from 1470 . The altar is also the tomb of Prince Octavio Piccolomini , Wallenstein's adversary in the Thirty Years' War , who was one of the most important patrons of the Servite Order. Another patron of this church was Freiherr Christoph Ignaz Abele , who donated the Liborius Altar.

On June 8, 1917, the roof of the church burned down, and the corner tower with the death knell collapsed. The damage caused by the fire amounted to around 450,000 kroner, of which only 58,000 kroner was covered by insurance.

The organ of the Servitenkirche was built in 1981 by Gerhard Hradetzky and has 23 stops on two manuals and a pedal .

On the north side of the church in the 18th century in honor of the holy is Peregrine Laziosi grown Peregrini Chapel of Melchior Hefele with frescoes by Mölk to find.

Web links

Commons : Servitenkirche  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karl Lechner: Church and Monastery of the Servites in Rossau (1970), page 35.
  2. ↑ Mario Schwarz and Manfred Wehdorn : 101 Restorations in Vienna (2000), page 186.
  3. ^ Article  in:  Wiener Zeitung , Wiener Zeitung, July 9, 1917, p. 7 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrz
  4. ^ Article  in:  The interesting sheet / Wiener Illustrierte , Bilder vom Brand, July 19, 1917, p. 6 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / dib
  5. ^ Article  in:  Wiener Allgemeine Zeitung , September 17, 1917, p. 2 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / waz
  6. ^ Austrian organ database Karl Schütz. Retrieved June 18, 2011 .
  7. ^ Günter Lade: Organs in Vienna . Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-9500017-0-0 , p. 248.
  8. ^ Karl Lechner, Church and Monastery of the Servites in Rossau (1970), page 31.

Coordinates: 48 ° 13 '14.2 "  N , 16 ° 21' 49.7"  E