St. Johannes Nepomuk Chapel (Währinger Gürtel)

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The St. Johannes Nepomuk Chapel (northern front) on the Währinger Gürtel
Interior of the church with altar

The Johannes Nepomuk Chapel is a building on the inner Währinger Gürtel at the level of Klammergasse (Währinger Gürtel Bogen 115) in the 9th district of Alsergrund in Vienna .

architecture

The chapel is a central building with a circular cupola. Short cross arms of equal length are attached to this dome structure on all four sides (ground plan: Greek cross ). The altar structures are designed in neo-renaissance forms.

The sacred building was erected around 1895 as a replacement for a line chapel that had been demolished a few meters away due to the construction of the Viennese urban railway (belt line), based on plans by Otto Wagner . The chapel was Otto Wagner's first sacred building in Vienna and is considered a model of the Steinhof church built around ten years later .

organ

In 1908, a used, six-register organ with a mechanical sliding drawer and a classical case was installed in the chapel. In 1924 it was pneumatized and a register was added . After it was no longer playable from 1986 onwards, a new organ was purchased in 2000, which was installed in the old case.

literature

  • Wolfgang Czerny (editing), Ingrid Kastel (contributions): Vienna. II. To IX. and XX. District . Dehio manual. Berger, Horn 1993, ISBN 3-7031-0680-8 , p. 374 f.

Web links

Commons : St. Johannes Nepomuk Chapel  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Czerny: Vienna. II. To IX. and XX. District , p. 374.
  2. ↑ a b Wien.gv.at: Churches in the 9th district ; Retrieved April 3, 2011
  3. ^ Association Kulturbogen: St. Johannes-Nepomuk-Kapelle ; Retrieved April 3, 2011
  4. ↑ Festschrift for the consecration of the organ (PDF; 1.6 MB); Retrieved April 3, 2011

Remarks

  1. ↑ High altar , three - axis neo - renaissance structure over a high base. - Czerny: Vienna. II. To IX. and XX. District , p. 374.
  2. ^ Which in turn had been a replacement since 1849 for the chapel built in 1740 in the area of ​​the Nussdorfer Strasse market hall . - See: The St. Johannes chapel on the Währinger line. In:  Das Vaterland , supplement to No. 226/1889, August 19, 1889, p. 1, top left. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / possibly.

Coordinates: 48 ° 13 '25.35 "  N , 16 ° 20' 57.25"  O