Parish Church St. Thekla (Vienna)

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Parish Church of St. Thekla
St. Thekla, interior view

The Roman Catholic Piaristenkirche St. Thecla in the Wiedner Hauptstraße 82 in the 4th Vienna district Wieden is home to the parish of St. Thekla, one of four parishes of the 2017 newly built parish of the Good News (in Stadtdekanat 4/5 in the Vicariate of Vienna City of Archdiocese of Vienna ). The church is dedicated to St. Thekla and is a listed building .

history

After the Piarists had received approval in 1751 to build a church with a monastery in Wieden, in 1752 they bought a piece of land for its construction in addition to the Klagbaum an der Widen . The church was consecrated on September 26, 1756.

Church and monastery

The church and monastery building were built according to plans by Mathias Gerl and completed in 1756. The decor of the church comes from the plasterers Jakob Philipp Kegelsperger and Pietro Orsatti as well as the stonemasons Matthias Winkler and Franz Joseph Steinböck .

Felix Ivo Leicher painted the altarpieces of St. Thekla , Maria Immaculata and the founder of the order, St. José Calasanz . His frescoes on the gables of the church and college are no longer preserved.

The organ of the parish church St. Thekla is the work of Johann M. Kauffmann and has 2 manuals and a pedal .

Web links

Commons : Parish Church St. Thekla (Vienna)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ St. Thekla story of St. Thekla in Vienna-Wieden, accessed on June 23, 2009

Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 18.8 ″  N , 16 ° 21 ′ 52.5 ″  E