St. Ulrich, Vienna
The Parish Church of St. Ulrich and Maria Trost is a Roman Catholic church in the 7th district of Vienna new building.
The church is located on the hillside between the higher-lying castle alley and the deeper Neustift alley where formerly was the bed of the creek Ottakringerstraße, on the St. Ulrich's place. The detached Baroque hall church shows the two- tower facade with front staircase Staff downslope to Neustiftgasse and the long half- full high conversions choir to the castle gate. The church was eponymous for the formerly independent suburban community Ortisei.
A chapel was called 1211. In 1408 the first church was built, which was incorporated in 1451 to the Abbey of the Scots, was damaged in 1474, and was destroyed in 1529 and was demolished in 1574. From 1589 it was rebuilt with new foundation of the parish, from 1651 a new direction of the choir and tower, from 1670 to 1672, the nave, where in 1683 the church was destroyed, and was restored in 1694. The present church was built from 1721 bus in 1724 by the architect Josef Reymund, the additions were built until 1752, completed the towers in 1771.
The southern gable facade is set back by two towers with tent roofs, originally onion helmets, flanked. The North side choir has a roof turret with onion dome. The staircase to the main entrance bears stone figures of Saint Benedict, Ulrich, Aloysius and St. John Nepomuk by the sculptor Franz Xaver blessing (1724-1780), which is also the niche figure hl. Ulrich created over the rectangular portal in the gable facade.
The altars of red stucco marble created in the mid-18th century, wearing white combined figures of Franz Xaver blessing. The altarpiece Vision of St.. Ulrich at the Battle of Lechfeld painted 1750 Paul Troger. Side of the choir is a credence table with the image Presentation in the Temple by Johann Bergl. The first side altar shows the image parting of the Apostles Peter and Paul Josef Ignaz Mildorfer before 1756th The second page has an altar altarpiece martyrdom of Sts. Jude Thaddeus and Simon the Zealot by Franz Anton Maulbertsch to 1760th The third side altar shows the image of the glory of St.. John of Nepomuk in 1750 and the fourth side altar the image of Sts. Benedict and Scholastica. There are two large former side altarpieces, Nativity of Franz Russ about 1870 and glory of St.. Ulrich Josef Neugebauer to 1865. There is a copy of the miraculous image of Maria Trost around 1700.
To the north of the choir in the chorus revolving cultivation from 1752 next to the sacristy a rectangular space- domed chapel with a remarkable Grablegungsgruppe with six figures from the third quarter of the 18th century.
The organ was built in 1842 Josef Loyp in a klassizisierendem housing. There are three bells by Johann Caspar Hofbauer from 1770 and 1882.