Heiligenstadt St. James's Church

The Heiligenstadt St. James' Church is one of the two churches of the Roman Catholic parish of the Holy City in the 19th district of Vienna Dobling on Heiligenstädter parish court. She is considered one of the oldest church outside the center of Vienna and is dedicated to Saint James.

Description

The church has a simple Romanesque plant. The present form dates from the 12th century. The building consists of a nave nave with two levels elevated, slightly altered presbytery. There are three arched windows, right only two on the left side. The Romanesque church consists of a nave with a square choir.

History

In the Holy City there were some early Christianity an organized and regular church services. The emergence of James's Church dates back to the 5th century.

As of 1105 there are reports of an applied here Severin cult. As is apparent from a document of the Bishop Rüdiger von Passau from 1243, the church in the Holy City was initially a branch church of St. Martin in Klosterneuburg and was only separated from her in 1246.

In the year 1263 is mentioned for the first time a hospital and located there parsonage next to the chapel of St. Jakob. 1307 Holy City was incorporated the Stift Klosterneuburg. Since that time, the Augustinian Canons pastor of the Holy City. Your pastoral care extended at that time to the neighboring communities Grinzing, Sievering, Salmannsdorf, Nußdorf, top and Unterdöbling. The parish chronicle tells that in 1480 a priest, two cooperators and five mounted chaplains were active.

During the first Turkish siege of the church was destroyed (14 October 1529) and 1534 rebuilt, restored in 1668. During the second Turkish siege ( 1683), the church and the adjacent hospital were destroyed. Only the church was rebuilt. In 1745, Cardinal Duke of Kollonitz the church donates a particle of St.. Severin, who has since been revered as a relic. 1752 receives a tower.

In 1952/53, a twice destroyed Roman structure was unearthed during archaeological excavations at the Jacob Church, both within the church and partly beyond borders. Inside this building there are two early Christian graves. The bricks used for the tombs date from the 10th Legion. North of the church was a Roman cemetery, near which in 1980 a grave was found from the Avar. This is also another theory for the name of the town derives from the Holy City: Each cemetery was in earlier times as "locus sanctus ". This cemetery may have been so characteristic of the town developed in the Middle Ages that it was called the Holy City. A connection with the grave of St. Severin reject recent research from though.

Besides the parish church there is a Beethoven-Haus. It is a wine grower house where Beethoven was staying in the summer of 1817.