Orphanage on Rennweg

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Former orphanage on Rennweg

The former orphanage on Rennweg in Vienna's 3rd district, Landstrasse, is a spacious, multi-courtyard, late Baroque complex on a large plot of land between Rennweg 89–93 and Landstraßer Hauptstrasse 146–148 and Oberzellergasse 1. The main facades of the orphanage and the early Josephine hall church (today's Parish Church of the Birth of Mary ) look towards Rennweg.

Orphanage on Rennweg

Johann Michael Kienmayer, owner of a cotton mill on Rennweg, made a foundation for an orphanage in 1742. A chapel was consecrated to the Visitation of the Virgin Mary as early as 1743 . The orphanage was built from 1745. In 1759 the Jesuit Ignaz Parhamer was installed as superintendent. After the acquisition of the area by Empress Maria Theresia , the orphanage was structurally expanded from 1759 to 1763 including a second chapel according to the plans of the architect Matthias Franz Gerl . After the Kienmayer Foundation merged with the Baron von Chaos Foundation , the orphanage was expanded again from 1767 to 1771. From 1768 the orphanage church of the Birth of Mary was built according to the plans of the architect Thaddäus Karner with master builder Leopold Grossmann and consecrated in 1770. The west wing on Rennweg was built according to plans by the architect Mödlhammer. In 1783 the orphanage church was elevated to a parish church . In 1785 the function of an orphanage church was withdrawn. The Viennese orphanage on Rennweg was considered a pioneer building and a model for the subsequent orphanage buildings in Austria-Hungary.

Artillery barracks on Rennweg

In 1797 the use was changed to an artillery barracks. For this purpose, the facility (before 1832) was extended by two courtyards towards the center of Vienna. Around 1854 a winter riding school was built in a courtyard according to plans by the architects August Sicard von Sicardsburg and Eduard van der Nüll . The final buildings facing Landstraßer Hauptstrasse date from around 1880.

architecture

The wing to the east of the church on Rennweg, built from 1759 to 1763, as well as the western wing from 1770, consist of two-story, eaves-standing buildings with basket arch entrances. Some of the ground floor rooms are vaulted with barrels and stitch caps. The facade shows simple rectangular windows with wrought iron monastery grilles. The winter riding arena, built around 1854 as a basilical brick building, has a round arch portal on the front and back and shows buttresses and biforias on the side facades . The facades on Rennweg 93 and Landstraßer Hauptstraße 148A from 1880 have a historical design with risalit structures and corner blocks.

literature

  • Dehio manual . The art monuments of Austria: Vienna. II. To IX. and XX. District, III. Landstrasse district, orphanage church. Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1993, pp. 69–72, ISBN 3-7031-0680-8 .

proof

  1. ↑ Leopold Grossmann verfertigte about the plans for the orphanage in the Burger suburb Transylvanian Sibiu , where Áron Márton was 1929 prefect of studies. Cf. Andrei Kertesz: Hermannstadt in Siebenbürgen , Verlag Terra Incognita, Sibiu 1999, p. 144

Coordinates: 48 ° 11 '25.4 "  N , 16 ° 23' 52.6"  E