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Practical Information
Stephansplatz 1.
Map 2 C4.
Tel 51 552-3526.
Open 6am–10pm Mon–Sat,
7am–10pm Sun.
8 in English:10:30am Mon–Sat;
in German: 3pm daily. 7 & 9
= ∑ stephanskirche.at
Transport
% Stephansplatz.
@ 1A, 2A, 3A.

The majestic Baroque façade
. Steffl or of Dominikanerkirche
South Spire
This 137 m (450 ft) 9 Dominikaner­
high Gothic spire, kirche
built in the 15th
century, is the Postgasse 4. Map 3 D4.
symbol of the Tel 51 29 174. % Stubentor,
cathedral and Schwedenplatz, Stephansplatz. v 2.
of Vienna. @ 3A, 74A. Open 7am–7pm Mon–
Sat, 7:30am–9pm Sun.

The Dominican monks came
to Vienna in 1226, at the
invitation of Duke Leopold VI.
They built and consecrated their
first church and convent here
in the second half of the 13th
century. The church that stands
now, built between 1631 and
1674, was designed by Cypriano
Biasino and Antonio Canevale.
The church has a richly
ornamented interior, with a
ring of chapels surrounding
the nave, with early-Baroque
frescoes on the ceiling and a
painting by Franz Geyling inside
the dome. The second chapel
on the right, St Vincent Chapel,
has swirling Rococo grilles and
candelabra, and a very beautiful
gilt organ above the west door,
set within a mid-18th century
decorative enclosure.
Niches in the majestic façade
contain statues of Dominican
saints. The two statues in the
corner recesses commemorate
two great scientists and medieval
religious figures, St Albert the
Wiener Neustädter Altar Great and St Thomas Aquinas.
Commissioned in 1447 by the Worth seeing are the frescoes
Emperor Friedrich III, this by Tencalla and Rauchmüller,
elaborately carved altarpiece and the high altar (1839–40) by
is situated to the left of Karl Rösner, with a painting by
the main altar. Leopold Kupelwieser.

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