Church of the Teutonic Order, Vienna

The German monastery church in Vienna is a Roman Catholic monastery church in hofartigen German religious house of the Teutonic Order in Vienna -Innere Stadt in Singerstraße 7

From the previous church of the Teutonic Knights of the church tower from the 13th century has survived. After several town fires the nave was rebuilt in stages and re-consecrated on the 4th Sunday of Advent in 1395 and placed under the patronage of religious saint, Saint Elizabeth of Thuringia. The original rectangular shape of the Gothic nave has a stellar vault. On the south side of Singer road were four large windows. In the Baroque period, the nave has been converted into an oval room. This resulted in the corners with Gothic ornament factory cased galleries, which are connected by eight underlying apartments.

The portal of the German Order of house and behind the connecting corridor to the courtyard form the entrance to the church. Law is reached by a small flight of stairs to the porch, as the level of the nave floor is raised to street level. On the church walls more than eighty coats of arms are shown, called Aufschwörschilde, usually shared with the coat of arms heraldic four fields of wealthy knights who deposited their coat of arms in the church after the accolade. The triptych was created in 1520 in Mechelen for the St. Mary's Church in Gdańsk in 1864 and came to Vienna. The high altarpiece of 1667, painted by Tobias Pock, shows the Order of cartridge: the enthroned Virgin with the Child Jesus and the Holy Elisabeth, George and Helena. In the course of the liturgical reform in 1986, the base of the side altar was renewed and beige is a main altar and a pulpit. The Cuspinianaltar shows the founders John and his two wives Cuspinian Agnes and Anna. There are three grave monuments to Erasmus Starhemberg to Guidobald Starhemberg and Josef Johann Philipp Graf Harrach.