Lichtental Church
The Lichttaler parish church to the holy fourteen holy helpers, also called Schubert Church, is a Roman Catholic parish church in the district Lichtental, district of Vienna Alsergrund.
History
After the establishment of suburban Lichtental at the turn of the 17th and 18th century, the church services had there first will be held in the local brewery. 1712, however, the Anne chapel was built in the middle of the new settlement and in the same year Charles VI laid. also the foundation for a proper church. The cost of the new building were supported by a fraternity and the landlords. Presumably, according to plans by Johann Lucas von Hildebrandt and Andrea Pozzo was initially an unfinished building in 1714, the first High Mass was held in it.
1723 Lichtental was separated from the parish church and the Währinger raised to an own parish, which included besides Lichtental even the suburbs Himmelpfortgrund, Althangrund and Thurygrund. First pastor was Dr. Carl de Giorgio from Ljubljana.
Only in 1730 the church was so far completed that they could be consecrated unto the fourteen Holy Helpers. 1738 she received a new organ. However, the parish church could no longer accommodate the rapidly growing population. Therefore, we set out - after the building of the vicarage from 1763 to 1766 - to their extension. With the purchase of two adjacent properties, the construction could be extended to today's Wiesengasse out. The plans for it came from the princely master mason Joseph Ritter, the high altar was designed by the court architect Ferdinand von Hohenberg.
1769 has begun with the new addition; in 1773, the 50-year anniversary of the parish, he was done. Franz Anton Zoller, member of the Imperial and Royal Academy of Fine Arts in 1776, created the high altarpiece for the parish church, which the 14 helpers, which they dedicated to shows. Zoller had it together with his cousin, the priest Zacharias Zoller, designed. A blemish of the church was still for a long time the unfinished north tower. It was not until 1827 he was finished.
The dead of the parish Lichtental were originally buried in the Währinger local cemetery, now Schubert Park. However, in 1713 they got their own cemetery, which lay between Nußdorferstraße, Nußgasse, club stairs and Rufgasse.
In 1939, the parish church of Canisius Lichtental was separated.
The church also gained by Franz Schubert importance, whose birthplace is in the parish Lichtental. 1797 Schubert was baptized in the parish church Lichttaler. He has created especially for them or listed here for the first time many of his sacred works. The Church, therefore, carries the nickname Schubert Church.
Equipment
The organ (called Schubert organ), was built in 1984 by the Upper Austrian Orgelbauanstalt St. Florian. The organ case is derived from the previous organ; it was in 1774 by the organ builder Johann Michael Panzner (Vienna). The abrasive loading instrument has 26 stops on two manuals and pedal. The play and Registertrakturen are mechanical.
- Couplers: II / I, I / P, II / P
- Notes: