Under St. Veiter parish church

The tower of the parish church

St. Johannes Nepomuk in front of the church

The church interior

The Unter-St.-Veit branch church Transfiguration of Christ is a Roman Catholic church in Vienna's 13th district , Hietzing , Unter-St.-Veit , at Sankt-Veit-Gasse 48.

The old church

The old Expositurkirche (1867–1965)

The village of Unter-St.-Veit emerged at the beginning of the 19th century; there were individual houses in the agricultural area even earlier. As the landlord, Michael Schwinner had 100 plots staked out in 1803 in order to generate more income. The "Neudörfl" was soon called Unter-St.-Veit, the center of St. Veits became Ober-St.-Veit, where the Ober-St.-Veit parish church , which was also responsible for the new settlement, stood.

In 1843 a wooden frame with a bell was set up on the meadow land purchased by the Roman Catholic parish Unter St. Veit, which is now the church. This bell has the lower inscription “Donor of this bell Mr. Jacob Flebus kk national private. Hat manufacturer and house owner in Unter St. Veit ”and at the top“ I poured Barth. Kaffel kk court bell founder in Vienna 1843 ”. Today it is one of the three bells in the church.

After a fire in 1860, which destroyed 13 houses, a pledge was made to build a church. A church building committee of the "Association for the construction of the poor house and schoolhouse including the chapel in Unter St. Veit" acted as the client. The church was built by master builder Josef Kopf from Hietzing and consecrated by dean Emanuel Paletz from Hütteldorf on August 25, 1867 as a branch church of the Ober-St.-Veiter parish church. In 1869 the aforementioned association was dissolved without the project parts "poor house and school house" being realized, the church building became the property of the community. In 1870, Upper and Lower St. Veit were separated into two independent local parishes. The Lower Austrian Provincial Law of December 19, 1890 decided to incorporate suburbs into the city of Vienna, which came into force on January 1, 1892. De facto, Unter-St.-Veit was taken over by the Viennese city administration on July 6, 1891, including the church that was owned by Unter-St.-Veit.

In 1907, Kaplan Gotthard Blümel was able to purchase the baroque high altar of the abandoned Laimgrubenkirche for the church, which remained in use until 1965. In 1935, Blümel was able to avert Cardinal Theodor Innitzer's proposal to demolish the church and rebuild it. In 1940 the church was elevated to an expositur. After Gotthard Blümel's death, the church was demolished in 1965. Three terracotta statues, Immaculate, Christ and Francis, were recovered by Felix Steinwandtner, who ran his butcher's shop to the left of the church, and later placed in the covered entrance to the new church. The "Laimgrubenaltar" was recovered in a depot of the Federal Monuments Office.

The new church

In the years 1965 to 1967 the church was rebuilt much larger according to the plans of the architect Anton Steflicek , consecrated on July 9, 1967 by Archbishop-Coadjutor Franz Jachym and elevated to a parish church by Cardinal Franz König on January 1, 1968 . The church was set back from the alley, so that a small forecourt emerged in front of the narrow side of the nave facing the alley, on the left edge of which the high tower facing the alley stands. The gable facade is made of exposed concrete and is structured with round windows and rectangular portal. In the church, the monumental fresco Transfiguration of Christ by Sepp Mayrhuber is attached to the altar wall . The organ was built in 1969 by the instrument manufacturer Novak .

A figure of St. John Nepomuk from 1855 stands in front of the church.

Opposite the church, which is embedded in the front of the houses facing the city center, Wittegasse, where the rectory is at No. 4, branches off from St.-Veit-Gasse.

parish

The parish is located in the Vicariate Vienna City and in the City Deanery 13 . Currently (as of 2015) there are around 2600 Catholics living in the parish. The area of ​​the parish Unter-St.-Veit is bordered by Hietzinger Kai in the north, by Steckhovengasse and Fichtnergasse in the east, Beckgasse in the south, Spohrstrasse and Hietzinger Hauptstrasse in the southwest, and Preindlgasse in the west. In a clockwise direction, the parishes of St. Anna Baumgarten , St. Jakob Penzing (both city ​​dean's office 14 ), Maria Hietzing , Zum guten Hirten (Bossigasse) and Ober-St.-Veit (both city dean's office 13) are adjacent .

From 1952 to 2015 the parish Unter-St.-Veit was cared for by the Salesians of Don Bosco (namely Fr Johann Aigner, Fr Alfred Hofmann, Fr Ignaz Horvath, Fr Karl Heinz Salesny). Although the Provincialate and the Don Bosco House remain in Unter-St.-Veit, the parish was returned to the Archdiocese. In the course of the Vienna Diocesan Process, the parishes of Unter-St.-Veit and Zum guten Hirten Bossigasse are working more closely together. The pastor of the Bossigasse parish, Dean Stefan Reuffurth , was also appointed pastor of Unter-St.-Veit on September 1st, 2015.

The parish Unter St. Veit was abolished on January 1st, 2020 and became part of the parish Unter St. Veit-Zum Guten Hirten . The church Unter St. Veit has since been a branch church of the parish Unter St. Veit-Zum Guten Hirten.

literature

• Dehio Handbook: The Art Monuments of Austria. Vienna X. to XIX. and XXI. to XXIII. District XIII. Churches. Under St. Veiter Church. Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.), Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-7031-0693-X , p. 179.
• Unter St. Veit - 125 years of the founding of the church - 25 years of the parish (self-published by the parish of Unter St. Veit, 1992)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ober St. Veit: The bells in Unter St. Veit ; accessed on Aug. 31, 2018. Lt. Felix Czeikes in Historisches Lexikon Wien , Volume 5, Vienna 1997, p. 516, donated the bell to Giuseppe Bossi
2. ↑ Gebhard Klötzl: From mayors and affairs. The Viennese suburbs of Ober and Unter St. Veit 1848-1891 . 2nd Edition. Homedia, Vienna 2017, ISBN 978-3-200-04246-9 .
3. ↑ Parish Unter St. Veit ( Memento of the original from June 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Data on the history of the parish Unter St.Veit, accessed on October 6, 2009 
4. ^ Archdiocese of Vienna, Parish Unter St. Veit
5. ↑ Parish gazette of the Vienna Unter-St.-Veit parish “To the Transfiguration of Christ”, 37th year - No. 3, Sep. 2015 - Nov. 2015  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ Diocesan Gazette of the Archdiocese of Vienna January / February 2020

Web links

Commons : Unter St. Veiter Parish Church  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Parish Church Unter St. Veit on the website of the Archdiocese of Vienna
• Website of the parish Unter St. Veit

Coordinates: 48 ° 11 '17.3 "  N , 16 ° 17' 8.8"  E