Donau City Church

The Donau City Church of Christ, hope of the world is a Roman Catholic church in the Donau-City -Straße 2 in the district of Donau City in the 22nd district of Vienna Danube city. It belongs to the parish church as Rector Kaisermuehlen.

History

As part of the design of the young district Danube City in the 1990s, it was also decided to erect a church building. It was organized a competition among six recognized Austrian architect. The Viennese architect Heinz Tesar was selected by the jury, because his project could exist independently of the round built skyscrapers.

On 5 September 1999, the foundation stone was laid by Bishop Helmut Krätzl. On November 26, 2000, at the Christ the King of the Holy Year 2000, the church was consecrated by Cardinal Christoph Schönborn. The Rectorate Donau City Church is guided by the Order of Salvatorianer.

The exterior

The outer dress is made from Styrian chrome steel, as a church recognizable only by a white cross and next to it the steel frame for the 3 bells. Architecturally, the building was constructed as a cross square, in which the four upper corners were cut.

The dark -looking shell of steel is perforated with numerous, obeying a diagonal grid, round openings. The window openings are alternately large and small, and thus break through the rigor of the picture. During the day they act like beams in the interior, at night the church shines brightly from the inside out.

The community rooms can be accessed by the stairs and the courtyard from the outside without disturbing the silence of the church interior. The bare concrete walls were decorated by children.

The interior

The interior is decorated with birch wood. Lots of light in various forms shapes the atmosphere of the place. Viewed from inside the room appear much larger than from the outside. The entrant upper corners of the cuboid produce inside their own zone, the entrance with porch, the Tabernakelbereich, the font and the area with the Madonna and Child, which serves to Sunday measurement times as a small children's play area and nothing else. As a place of silence and prayer

The altar - like font, ambo and Tabernakelstelle not made ​​of wood but granite - stands in the middle, the benches are arranged around it. The interior design is characterized by simple simplicity. The peculiar curved window in the church ceiling indicates the wounded side of Jesus, through which flows to us his life, the Mandorla on the front wall symbolizes the resurrection.

The distinctive Stations of the Cross on the side wall were screen-printed drawings by Heinz Tesar. The inside is written in red letters in English protest ( " Out with this sh * t, this is absolutely nothing" ) is deliberately left as a " stimulus for reflection ," according to a statement posted.

The only concession to current art is the Madonna, a copy of Our Lady of Grace Village at Hollabrunn.

There are three different light sources: large windows in the cut corners, many points of light through the round openings in the outer shell and a large column in the form of a heart wound on the ceiling. These different light sources to ensure that each little sunbeam illuminates the interior and gives him a friendly atmosphere. The altar cross itself is at the intersection of a small window opening which directs a ray of sunshine in the morning of the day of Christ the King on the tablets of the Cross.

Under the church there is a community hall, the office, a foyer and several group rooms. Through a small courtyard, these rooms are ideal supplied with daylight and are a popular meeting place for celebrations, parish coffee, meditations, crawling laps, kids fair, theater, various exhibitions and all other events where people get together.