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The ''Votivkirche'' ( en, Votive Church) is a
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style
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located on the
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in
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, Austria. Following the attempted assassination of
Emperor Franz Joseph Franz Joseph I or Francis Joseph I (german: Franz Joseph Karl, hu, Ferenc József Károly, 18 August 1830 – 21 November 1916) was Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary, and the other states of the Habsburg monarchy from 2 December 1848 until his ...
in 1853, the Emperor's brother Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian inaugurated a campaign to create a church to thank God for saving the Emperor's life. Funds for construction were solicited from throughout the Empire. The church was dedicated in 1879 on the silver anniversary of Emperor Franz Joseph and his wife Empress Elisabeth.Schnorr 2012, p. 69.


Origin

The origin of the Votivkirche derives from a failed assassination attempt on Emperor
Franz Joseph Franz Joseph I or Francis Joseph I (german: Franz Joseph Karl, hu, Ferenc József Károly, 18 August 1830 – 21 November 1916) was Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary, and the other states of the Habsburg monarchy from 2 December 1848 until his ...
by Hungarian nationalist
János Libényi János Libényi (in archaic English sources: John Libényi, Csákvár, 8 December 1831 – Vienna, 26 February 1853) was a Hungarian tailor-servant who attempted to assassinate Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph. This was the first of seven assassin ...
on 18 February 1853.Palmer 1995, p. 66. During that time, when the Emperor was in residence at the
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, he took regular walks around the old fortifications for exercise in the afternoons. During one such stroll, while walking along one of the outer bastions with one of his officers, Count
Maximilian Karl Lamoral O'Donnell Maximilian Karl Lamoral Graf O’Donnell von Tyrconnell (29 October 1812 — 14 July 1895) was an Austrian officer and civil servant who became famous when he helped save the life of Emperor Franz Josef I of Austria. O'Donnell was a descendant of ...
von
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, the twenty-one-year-old tailor's apprentice attacked the twenty-three-year-old Emperor from behind, stabbing him in the collar with a long knife. The blow was deflected by the heavy golden covering embroidered on the Emperor's stiff collar. Although his life was spared, the attack left him bleeding from a deep wound.Palmer 1995, p. 67. A civilian passer-by, Dr. Joseph Ettenreich, came to the Emperor's assistance, and Count O'Donnell struck Libényi down with his sabre, holding him until the police guards arrived to take him into custody. As he was being led away, the failed assassin yelled in Hungarian, "Long live Kossuth!" Franz Joseph insisted that his assailant not be mistreated. After Libényi's execution at
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for attempted
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, the Emperor characteristically granted a small pension to Libenyi's mother. Dr. Ettenreich, who quickly overwhelmed the attacker, was later elevated to nobility by Franz Joseph for his bravery, and became Joseph von Ettenreich. Count O'Donnell, who up until then was a count in the German nobility by virtue of his great-grandfather, was afterwards made a Count of the Habsburg Empire and received the Commander's Cross of the Royal Order of Leopold. His customary O'Donnell arms were augmented by the initials and shield of the ducal House of Austria and also the double-headed eagle of the Empire. These arms are emblazoned on the portico of No. 2 Mirabel Platz in
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, where O'Donnell later built his residence. After the unsuccessful assassination attempt, the Emperor's brother, Maximilian — later Emperor of
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— called upon communities throughout the Empire for donations to a new church on the site of the attack. The church was to be a
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for the rescue of Franz Joseph and "a monument of patriotism and of devotion of the people to the Imperial House."


History

The church plans were established in an
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in April 1854. 75 projects from the Austrian Empire, German lands,
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, and
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were submitted. Originally, the plans were to include the neighbouring ''
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'' and create a campus fashioned after the plans of
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and
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. Another plan was to create a national cathedral for all the people of the empire. However, because of spiraling costs and the changing political situation, this plan had to be downsized. The jury choose the project of
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(1828–1883), who, at the time, was only 26. He chose to build the cathedral in the
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style, borrowing heavily from the architecture of
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French cathedrals. Because of this concept, many people mistake this church for an original Gothic church. However, the Votivkirche is not a servile imitation of a French Gothic cathedral, but rather embodies a new and individual design concept. Furthermore, the Votivkirche was built with one single architect exercising supervision over its entire construction, and not by several generations, as were the cathedrals in the Middle Ages. Construction began in 1856, and it was dedicated twenty-six years later on April 24, 1879, the occasion of the silver jubilee of the royal couple. The church was one of the first buildings to be built on the
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. Since the city walls still existed at that point, the church had no natural parishioners. At that time it was meant as a garrison church, serving the many soldiers that had come to Vienna in the wake of 1848 Revolution. The church is not located directly on the boulevard but along a broad square (now the Sigmund Freud Park) in front of it. The ''Votivkirche'' is made out of white
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, similar to the Stephansdom, and therefore has to be constantly renovated and protected from air-pollution and
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, which tends to colour and erode the soft stone. The church has undergone extensive renovations after being badly damaged during World War II. Since its architectural style is quite similar to the Stephansdom, it often gets mistaken for it by tourists, in part because both churches have patterned tiling on their roofs. In reality the two churches differ in age by more than 700 years. The design of this church has been closely imitated in the Gedächtniskirche in
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, Germany, the
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in Helena,
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in
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Description

The Votivkirche has the typical form of a Gothic cathedral : * a façade with two slimline towers and three
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d portals with
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s and a gallery with statues above the portals, *central portal twice as wide as the side portals * a
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, crowned by the roof gable of the nave * belfries and a
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spire *
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es,
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s and
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es The interior consists of a
nave The nave () is the central part of a church, stretching from the (normally western) main entrance or rear wall, to the transepts, or in a church without transepts, to the chancel. When a church contains side aisles, as in a basilica-typ ...
and two
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s, crossed by a transept. This transept has the same height as the nave, while the aisles are only half as high and half as wide as the nave. The side chapels in the transept are as high and wide as the aisles. The
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is surrounded by an
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with apsidioles and a Lady chapel. This imposing church constitutes a harmonious whole through the proportions, arrangement, spaciousness and unity of style of all the elements. The Emperor window, donated by the City of Vienna, depicted the delivrance of the Emperor, saved from assassination by Maximilian Graf O'Donnell von Tyrconnell, but this original theme was lost when the windows were destroyed during World War II. The replacement window was restored by the City of Vienna in 1964, albeit modified to reflect the changing times. The detail of the actual moment of the Emperor's deliverance was lost, and although otherwise faithful to the original design, the replacement took on a less monarchical and more religious tone.


Main altar

This impressive altar catches the eye with its gilded
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and an elaborate ciborium over it. The artist Joseph Glasser drew his inspiration for the ciborium from examples in Italian Gothic churches, such as the
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and the
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, both in
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. The marble altar is decorated with panels with glass mosaic
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s work. and is supported by six
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columns. A gilded
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stands above the altar, at the bottom of which is the
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, flanked by enameled panels depicting two scenes from the Old Testament: the Sacrifice of Isaac and the dream of
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. Above the tabernacle is a niche with a crucifix. Niches surrounding the tabernacle contain statues of angels and various saints. These are: on the left side, statues of the
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s of the church,
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, and of the founder,
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; on the right side,
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and
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. The ciborium is supported by four massive red granite columns. It opens up into four pointed arches, crowned with gables and flanked by
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s with statues of saints in their niches. The cross vault is painted with allegorical representations of the four
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, while the
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, in the form of a dove, is portrayed on the
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. In the
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on the front, one can see a
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of the
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in her
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as the
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, trampling on a snake. This was a gift of
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. In the
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at the top of the ciborium, stands Christ surrounded by four angels.


Transept

The four side chapels in the transept are as high and wide as the aisles : the Rosary chapel, the Chapel of the Cross, the Bishops’ chapel and the baptistry. They form side aisles in the transept, giving the strange impression that the transept is composed of three aisles. Each of these four transept chapels display on their wall pillars four statues of saints. The famous polychrome Antwerp altar in Late-Gothic style (ca. 1530) was in the Rosary chapel till 1986, but is now located in the Museum. The
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of Nicholas, Graf von Salm (defender of Vienna during the Turkish siege in 1529) stands in the baptistry. It was set up as a token of gratitude by emperor Ferdinand I.


Pulpit

The hexagonal Neo-Gothic
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stands on six marble pillars. The front panels show us in the middle a preaching Christ, flanked on both sides by the
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, Saint Gregory,
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, and
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. These half-reliefs are framed inside sunken medaillons with a gilded mosaic background. Four pillars support the wooden soundboard and on top a spire with a statue of
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. And just as the sculptor of the Stephansdom has been portrayed under the pulpit of that church, the architect of the Votivkirche, Heinrich Ferstel, has been portrayed under this pulpit by Viktor Tilgner.


Votivpark

The
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surrounding the church is named Votivpark, which is separated by a street (Straße des achten Mai) from the adjacent Sigmund Freud Park, both of which are located near the Main building (Hauptgebäude) of the
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.


Gallery

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See also

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Emperor Maximilian Memorial Chapel The Emperor Maximilian Memorial Chapel is a small Roman Catholic chapel located on the ''Cerro de las Campanas'' (Hill of the Bells) in Querétaro City in central Mexico. It is dedicated to the memory of Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico, and was bu ...
*
Empress Elisabeth Memorial Church Empress Elisabeth Memorial Church (German: ''Kaiserin-Elisabeth-Gedächtniskirche'') is a small Roman Catholic church on the Schneeberg in Lower Austria. It is close to the mountain station of the Schneebergbahn. The memorial church belongs to t ...


References

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External links


Votivkirche official website

Votivkirche
photo gallery in
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video showing the inside of the church. {{Authority control 19th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Austria Buildings and structures in Alsergrund Roman Catholic churches completed in 1879 Roman Catholic church buildings in the Vicariate of Vienna City Gothic Revival church buildings in Austria Votive churches 1879 establishments in Austria