Parish church of St. Christoph on Rennbahnweg

St. Christoph am Rennbahnweg

The parish church of St. Christoph am Rennbahnweg is a Roman Catholic church in the 22nd district of Vienna, Donaustadt, on Rennbahnweg 44.

history

A design by the IGIRIEN studio community of architects Werner Appelt, Franz E. Kneissl and Elsa Prochazka was realized. This design, as Church multi-purpose hall called, is first in the district of Donau City in 1977 with the parish church of St. Christoph am Rennbahnweg the council trotting reasons , for a second time in the parish area of the parish wholesale Jedlersdorf as a pastoral station St. Michael the council Dr. Koch Hof and a third time in 1981 with the parish church of St. Claret-Ziegelhof in Quadenstrasse at the municipal building at Ziegelhofstrasse.

Church multipurpose hall

The building forms a square with an outer, equally wide, somewhat lower side room layer, in the middle of which a square hall forms the actual church space. The hall appears in the roof as an extra-wide lantern with the exposure windows, while the facade of the adjoining rooms encircles the building with arcade-like arches.

literature

Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria: Vienna. X. to XIX. and XXI. to XXIII district. XXII. District. St. Christoph am Rennbahnweg. Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.), Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-7031-0693-X , page 660.
Andreas Zeese: Parish Church St. Claret-Ziegelhof , in: Ann Katrin Bäumler and Andreas Zeese: Church building in Vienna after 1945: From Rudolf Schwarz to Heinz Tesar , Vienna University of Technology, Department of Art History Vienna 2007, pages 102 to 107.

Web links

Website of the Roman Catholic Parish Sankt Christoph am Rennbahnweg

Individual evidence

↑ The development of the three multi-purpose halls as churches in the Donaustadt and Floridsdorf in Vienna attracted great national and international interest in the 1970s. As an example of the three realizations, the parish church of St. Claret was shown in the exhibition Holy Times: Vienna Church Construction after 1945 December 13, 2007 - January 14, 2008 in the Architekturzentrum Wien .
^ Nextroom.at Architectural description of the three church multi-purpose halls of the IGIRIEN studio community, September 14, 2003.

48.2565 16.45077Coordinates: 48 ° 15 '23.4 " N , 16 ° 27' 2.8" E

[1] The development of the three multi-purpose halls as churches in the Donaustadt and Floridsdorf in Vienna attracted great national and international interest in the 1970s. As an example of the three realizations, the parish church of St. Claret was shown in the exhibition Holy Times: Vienna Church Construction after 1945 December 13, 2007 - January 14, 2008 in the Architekturzentrum Wien .

[2] Nextroom.at Architectural description of the three church multi-purpose halls of the IGIRIEN studio community, September 14, 2003.