Wolfgang Chapel in front of the Stubentor

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The Wolfgang Chapel can be seen on the left below the Stubentor (excerpt from the Albertine plan from 1421)

The Wolfgangskapelle before Stubentor is a 1529 Outbound chapel before Stubentor in the area of today's Biberstraße in the first Viennese district of Inner City . It was dedicated to St. Wolfgang .

history

In addition to the numerous settlements and hamlets in the five medieval suburbs of Vienna, the so-called "Scheffstraß" remained in ducal possession until it was destroyed in the course of the first Turkish siege of Vienna in 1529. The settlement was in front of the Stubentor and was surrounded by the trunk road towards Hungary, today's Weißkirchnerstrasse and Landstrasse Hauptstrasse , Stadtgraben, the Wien River and an arm of the Danube. The administration of this settlement was carried out by a ducal bailiff, the income went as appanage to the wife of the sovereign. In 1417 the Wolfgang chapel is mentioned for the first time as the "new chapel in Scheffstrasse". In 1423 two pounds pfennigs were bequeathed to build the new church . In 1419, 1426 and 1428 goblets, carpets and candles were given to the church building. Based on this, the building is likely to have been built between 1417 and 1428. The chapel near the city wall below the Dominican monastery is already drawn in the plan from around 1422 . In 1433 a Hanns Gotesprunner is named as the administrator of the Wolfgang chapel on the ditch in front of the Stubentor.

The patronage of the church was probably taken over by the “Wolfgang Brotherhood”, from which it is assumed that they were an association of the tradespeople in Scheffstrass , especially leather workers, tanners, binders and fishermen. Services were held in the chapel for the residents of this area. In the course of the first Turkish siege of Vienna in 1529, the church was destroyed to the ground, and later not rebuilt, as the area in front of the city walls, the so-called glacis , had to be kept free of any building.

literature

  • Richard Perger, Walter Brauneis: The medieval churches and monasteries of Vienna . Paul Zsolnay Verlag, Vienna / Hamburg 1977, ISBN 3-552-02913-3 , p. 92 .