St. Hubertus and Christophorus (Vienna)

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St. Hubertus and Christophorus at the Lainzer Tiergarten
Hildegard Burjan Court

The parish church of St. Hubertus and Christopher on Lainzer Tiergarten is a Roman Catholic church in the 13th Viennese district Hietzing in Granichstaedtengasse 73rd

history

After the First World War, part of the Lainzer Tiergarten was opened for settlement. Various settlements such as the SAT settlement , the peace city , the police settlement, the customs guard settlement and the Heimscholle settlement emerged. The fact that the initiative fell to the Lainz parish church and the local pastor Anton Schrefel resulted from the emergency church , which was on the left side of the Lainzerbach and thus in the parish of Lainz. However, the new housing estates and the current church are on the right side of the stream and were therefore in the area of ​​the Mauer parish church with the pastor Franz Gessl there, which is why the founding activities got in the way and sparked conflicts. The pastoral care in the emergency church was carried out by priests of the order of the Nazarenes . Schrefel then won Father Josef Lappas from the Pallottine Order for the new parish church, making him a buffer stop and mediator between Lainz and the Wall. The end of the territorial disputes over the SAT settlement, about which Lappas reported: At the end of the debate, Monsignor Gessl shook my hand and said: Let's say you now. The order of the Pallottines still looks after the church.

Emergency church

The emergency church was a former workshop of the Halla municipal council at Dr.-Schober-Straße 3, today a congress settlement , where today the bed ward of the Föhrenhof retirement home is located opposite . A wooden cross in the front yard of the pensioner's house reminds of this. The first service in the emergency church was held on April 19, 1931 by Prelate Karl Drexel. To distinguish it from the other nearby workshops, the emergency church was provided with a tower and equipped with two bells from the bell foundry Pfundner in Vienna-Favoriten. Both bells were intended for the future church and were consecrated to St. Hubert and St. Christopher. The choice of this saint corresponded to a wish of Cardinal Friedrich Gustav Piffl : Hubertus in memory of the former hunting ground, Christophorus, because there was no church consecrated to him in Vienna at that time - the number of cars of the middle class rose sharply, which led to the desire for consecration created. Since Cardinal Piffl had died at the consecration of the bells, Cardinal Theodor Innitzer did this on July 23, 1933 , and motor vehicles were also blessed. At the same time, a significant part of the middle class was impoverished, which is why Hildegard Burjan and pastor Anton Schrefel established an Elisabeth table in the emergency church . The Hildegard-Burjan-Hof at Speisinger Strasse 46 therefore commemorates Burjan.

church

The property was bought by the Lainz parish in the police settlement. The church was built between 1934 and 1935 according to the plans of the architects Kurt Klaudy and Georg Lippert with the construction management of the architect Anton Liebe. It was consecrated on November 15, 1935 by Cardinal Theodor Innitzer . The mosaic windows are by Hans Alexander Brunner . The wall paintings in the altar niche and on the choir walls are by Hans Becker, the altarpiece and the frescoes of the church patron are by Karl Engel . Carved Madonna and other figures by Mea Bratusch on the Altar of Mary . The organ was built in 1996 by Wolfgang Eisenbarth from Passau and consecrated by Vicar Bishop Anton Berger . The tabernacle, ambo and candlesticks are from Manfred Stubmann .

literature

Web links

Commons : St. Hubertus and Christophorus  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hanns Fellner: Anton Schrefel - the founder of St. Hubertus , parish letter St. Hubertus, Easter 2009.
  2. ↑ Pallottine ( Memento of the original from November 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. St. Hubertus and Christophorus Vienna, accessed June 16, 2009. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.pallottiner.org

Coordinates: 48 ° 9 ′ 49.1 ″  N , 16 ° 15 ′ 42.1 ″  E