Vienna has a lot of buildings that are not serving their old purpose. Instead, they give room to culture and art or sometimes just are used as office space for startups or companies. This is how the production company I will be working for got to one of the pavilions in the area of the old psychiatric clinic called Otto Wagner Spital. The Hospital is still in use as a special hospital for pulmonology patients.
Today a part of it is called Klinik Penzing and another big part, has been repurposed as a facility for various aspects, such as the CEU the Central European University that moved its headquarters from Budapest to Vienna.
On top of the huge area that consists of the main building and 26 secondary buildings sits a modern church built by Otto Wagner the famous Austrian architect.
Otto Wagner can be checked out here in detail: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Wagner
He was an Austrian architect who built an abundance of buildings in Vienna and Budapest. The St Leopold Church is considered one of the most important Art Nouveau churches in the world.
I will not go into any long detail about the church's history because you can all read about it on Wikipedia or other sources.
I am taking you for a photowalk and starting with an outside frontal shot. I had to use the wide angle of my phone to capture this particular image. I mostly used my Sony Alpha 7 mark 2 and a 35mm fg2,8 lense for the rest.
If you turn around you have an amazing view over Vienna if you are tall enough. For the next image, I had to walk uphill for another few hundred meters right to the church through the forest.
The actual view from the church is way less beautiful but still a sight to behold.
Inside the church:
The windows were designed by another great artist, Koloman Moser who also made the stained glass and mosaics.
From left to right: To feed the hungry, to give water to the thirsty, to give shelter to strangers, to give clothes to the naked, to visit the sick, to free the prisoners, to bury the dead.
St. Elisabeth, Rebekka, St. Bernhard, St. Martin, St. Joh. of God, St Joh. of Matha, Tobias
These lamps can be lowered to ground level and are held by giant 100kg weights in the top of the church. If you manage to get right underneath them they reveal perfect simmetry.. Unfortunately, I failed to do this task...
The roof is an impressive one and has a full story above it with the cupola.
The cupola can be seen better from the side when you are outside the church.
I hope you enjoyed this little photowalk which was a spontaneous one. I pinned this in the map of course again and you can find that in the comments soon.
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