St. Rupert's. The oldest Church in Vienna, along with a bit about its environs - a long post

[Mira]

Apparently not too many come to see this old church. Maybe not too many know about it. I got there when it was closed, but the stained glass windows, small, from the outside looked so contemporary that I wanted to come back when it was open.
It sits, as if emerging from the sidewalk, right at the front edge of this photograph.



it is so close to the buildings around it that you can at one place reach the church and the next building by stretching out your arms. A church without grounds.



It’s located a tiny alley away from the Jewish Synagogue, which is always under police protection. Therefore, it too, is always protected. This is a walkway through to the Synagogue, about 10 steps from the entrance to the church. You see the policemen at the end of it, and then you see what they are guarding.





Now I’ll show you the outside of the church a little walk around







And finally the inside, where yes, the windows were contemporary because they had been broken through times and wars, but there is one that has survived since 1270 that is the oldest church glass window in Vienna.

Here it is



and here is how it sits between the new contemporary partners







I especially liked the Romanesque crucifix



also the ebony Madonna in a side vestry



the sarcophagus of St. Vitalis, a martyr from the Roman catacombs. The skeleton, my notes say, is clothed in garments of the baroque style, and missing body parts were replaced in wax.



Let’s go back outside, where there is a business I did not take a look at, but I laughed at the name, and ever curious, I walked through the entry way to the left of the word Kitsch and found this in the back yard







Wiki info about the church
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Rupert%27s_Church,_Vienna

Visitor feedback from Tripadvisor
https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g190454-d319316-r256195325-St_Rupert_s_Church_Ruprechtskirche-Vienna.html

[CurtEastPoint]

1. Thank you, Mira. Adding this to my list of things to see!

[Mira]

3. Oh good!

Then my work here is done
I want to show folks a bit of what they would not necessarily see and celebrate that I was able to.

[Solly Mack]

2. K&R

Very nice!

[Squinch]

4. That window is beautiful, and the photo with the three windows and the single

sprig and candle is amazing.

What a find!

Safe travels and keep them coming!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. These are phenomenal photos, my dear Mira!

I feel as though I were there with you, walking around, openmouthed in amazement.

Thank you!

[Mira]

7. Thank you - your encouragement has meant a lot

I feel / felt a bit awkward about so many small show and tales, but I want to share. Sitting on so many photos and memories.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

9. I'm glad to encourage you! You are doing a phenomenal job, dear Mira!

More please!

After June 16th, I will have a few photos to share.........more on this later!

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. You write a very good travelogue.

So many treasures hidden away that most of us would even know about without you sharing them here.

I'm smiling. It's all too too lovely.

[Mira]

8. Thanks dixiegrrrrl

I have more to come and I'm glad you came through Alberto OK

[northoftheborder]

10. Really appreciate your wonderful photographs.

I especially love the little out of the way places you show us!

[Mira]

11. It makes me happy you are interested

it's what keeps me going. I think though that the next one will be about gloriously beautiful facades of buildings in Munich and Vienna. Please check in when I do.

[alfredo]

12. Thanks for showing us the wonders of old Europe

[Mira]

14. It is so much my honor

To have a place to show it with people who know me and care to see. I can’t imagine what the photos would look like had YOU taken them.

[alfredo]

15. My photos would not have been as good as yours.

You gave a full picture of your surroundings, I tend to look for pieces and parts.

[NBachers]

13. Vienna . . . Thanks for taking me there, Mira.

[mnhtnbb]

16. What a marvelous find!

There is so much to see in Vienna. I really enjoyed the week spent there several years ago. Wouldn't mind going back. The first time I was there in 1983 and it was a challenge because I don't speak German. Couldn't believe how commonplace it had become to find people speaking English 30 years later.

Thanks for sharing so many of your photos. Looking forward to more!