St. Leopold (Linz)
The parish church of St. Leopold is a Roman Catholic parish in the district Urfahr in Linz .
In 1966, with the establishment of a cooperator exhibition, the Leopold Church with the parish complex was built from 1969 to 1971 according to the plans of the Linz cathedral master builder Gottfried Nobl . In 1972 the church was elevated to a parish church. In 1986 after a fire it was rebuilt and in 1987 the church was rebuilt a second time on the Babenberg Leopold III. and patron saint of Upper Austria .
The monumental church in the shape of a cross with a flat roof has rounded the inner corners and drawn in a little, which means that the cross arms expand slightly outwards. The wall surfaces were executed in red exposed brick construction and with exposed concrete strips on the edges and cross sections. On the ground floor, side rooms, such as the baptistery and the weekday chapel, form the floor plan of an octagon.
The painter Rudolf Kolbitsch created ornamental glass windows in 1987 , which depict the Way of the Cross to the east.
The artist Helmut Michael Berger created a monumental painted crucifix on a cross-shaped support in the 1990s . In the baptistery is a nativity scene by the sculptor Karl Gruber from 1987 and a crucifix by the sculptor Johann Forstner from 1987. On the courtyard side is a mosaic encounter by the mosaic artist K. Lukesch from 1998.
An 18th century crucifix torso in the weekday chapel was charred by the fire.
On the facade there is a figure of St. Leopold by the sculptor Maximilian Stockenhuber from 1989. A figure hl. Leopold from the 2nd half of the 18th century was damaged by the fire.
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- Dehio Linz 2009 , Linz north of the Danube . Parish church hl. Leopold , p. 482 f.
Coordinates: 48 ° 18 ′ 47.6 ″ N , 14 ° 16 ′ 28.3 ″ E