Wotruba Church
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Wotrubakirche | |
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| Denomination | Catholic Church |
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| Architect(s) | Fritz Wotruba |
| Style | Brutalism |
| Groundbreaking | 1974 |
| Completed | 1976 |
The Kirche Zur Heiligsten Dreifaltigkeit (English: Church of the Most Holy Trinity), better known as the Wotrubakirche or Wotruba Church, is a Brutalist Catholic church located in Liesing, Vienna. It was built between August 1974 and October 1976, based on a design by Austrian sculptor Fritz Wotruba.[1][2][3]
Wotruba died before the completion of the church, which was inspired by a visit to Chartres Cathedral. To Wotruba, Chartres represented the essence of Europe, and Wotruba subsequently held up Chartres as a yardstick to his own work. Wotruba was first and foremost a sculptor, and the church was a collaboration with Fritz G. Mayr, who continued the work after Wotruba's death.
The building consists of 152 asymmetrically arranged concrete blocks of a size between 0.84 m3 to 64 m3, weighing from 1.8 to 141 tons; the highest block measures 13.10m. The church, which borders the Wienerwald, is 30 m long, 22 m wide, and 15.5 m high. The unusual design created some local resistance.
During the Third Reich, the site where the church is located housed German Wehrmacht barracks.
See also
References
- ^ "Wotruba Church". Architectuul. Retrieved 2023-11-12.
- ^ "The Bizarre Brutalist Church that Is More Art than Architecture". ArchDaily. 2018-02-13. Retrieved 2023-11-12.
- ^ "The Wotruba Church". www.virc.at. Retrieved 2023-11-12.
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