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

[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