Am Schöpfwerk Church

The church at the pumping station is a Roman Catholic parish church, St the. Francis of Assisi is dedicated. It is the youngest church in the 12th district of Vienna Meidling.

Specifications

The church is located on the outskirts of large urban housing complex at the pumping station, which was built in 1976-80 on the southern slope of the Viennese mountain in Meidlinger district part Altmann village, in the light Sterngasse 4 The responsible for the entire residential complex architect Viktor Hufnagl also planned the church, 1979-81 was built. In 1982, the parish was founded at the pumping station.

Due to the terrain, there is the church of two levels, the lower level is where the parish community facilities and the parish office houses, while the actual church is located on the upper floor. The building is composed of cubic elements, the symmetrically staggered rise in the form of a stepped pyramid. The supporting elements are plastered and consist of a reinforced concrete skeleton construction, while between exposed brick masonry is inserted. A seven-storey bell tower rises at the low vestibule of the entrance area.

A staircase leads from the rooms of the ground floor to the central vestibule, through which the church can be entered. This consists of a central space above a Greek cross with a handle made ​​of concrete columns. The cubic projecting into the space elements open at the top of the step pyramid in a kind of lantern glass windows. The white interior, divided by green-gold ceramic tiles, strongly reminiscent of the Art Nouveau style. The room can accommodate 220 ​​seated and 400 standing passengers.

The device consists of a central ceramic altar, which is increased to two stages. Behind it is a crucifix from the 19th century. Carry Hauser created the picture of a Pietà, Michael Fuchs, the son of Ernst Fuchs, the image of St. Francis of Assisi. Stations of the Cross and holy water basins are made ​​of ceramic and come from Franz Josef of Altenburg, the Schmuckornamentik comes from Traude Windbrechtinger Inger.

In the northwest of the sanctuary is the square Clare Chapel.