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expression of gratitude for Franz
Joseph’s escape from assassi na-
tion, is based on French Gothic
architecture; its richly coloured
interior contains the marble
tomb of Count Niklas Salm, who
defended Vienna from the Turks
during the siege of 1529 (see
p26). On Lerchenfelder Strasse
the red-brick Altlerchenfelder
Kirche is a 19th-century
The frescoed interior of the late Baroque architectural hodgepodge of
Stanislaus-Kostka Chapel Gothic and Italian Renaissance
styles and the interior features The haphazard, sculpted blocks of the
colourful frescoes. modern Wotruba-Kirche
19th-Century Churches
During the 19th century the Central Cemetery, was built
prevailing mood in Viennese 20th-Century Churches by Max Hegele, a protégé
architecture was one of A masterpiece of early of Otto Wagner, and has the
Romantic historicism. Elements 20th-century church same monumental feel about
of past styles were adopted and architecture is Otto Wagner’s it. For true devotees of modern
recreated, in churches and (see p59) massive Kirche am art, there is the Wotruba-
many other municipal buildings, Steinhof, built to serve a Kirche on Georgsgasse in the
specifically on the Ringstrasse psychiatric hospital. The suburb of Mauer, designed by
(see pp34–5). The Griechische interior has a slightly clinical the sculptor Fritz Wotruba. A
Kirche on Fleischmarkt took its air, since it is tiled in white, haphazard-looking assembly
inspiration from Byzantine but the austerity is relieved of large concrete blocks, its
architecture, and the interior is by Kolo Moser’s (see p59) abstract form is not popular
replete with iconostases and stained-glass windows and among everyone.
frescoes. The Votivkirche, built mosaics. The Luegerkirche,
just off the Ringstrasse as an which is located in the Finding the Churches
Altlerchenfelder Kirche,
Lerchenfelder Strasse 111.
Map 3 A1.
Annakirche p82
Augustinerkirche p104
Burgkapelle p105
Deutschordenskirche p78
Dominikanerkirche p79
Franziskanerkirche p81
Griechische Kirche p83
Jesuitenkirche p79
Karlskirche pp148–9
Kirche am Hof p89
Kirche am Steinhof p162
Luegerkirche p170
Maria am Gestade p87
19th-century interior of the Altlerchenfelder Kirche Maria-Treu-Kirche p118
Michaelerkirche p94
Minoritenkirche p105
Peterskirche Karlskirche
Peterskirche p89
Ruprechtskirche p83
Schottenkirche p112
Stanislaus-Kostka Chapel,
Kurrentgasse 2. Map 2 D5
& 5 C2.
Stephansdom pp74–7
Ulrichskirche p118
Ursulinenkirche, Johannesgasse 8.
Map 4 E1 & 6 D4.
Votivkirche p113
Wotruba-Kirche p173

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