Don Bosco Church

The Don Bosco Church (parish church Neuerdberg) in the 3rd district planned by Robert Kramreiter, was opened after 4 years of construction in 1958 on the site of an elementary school destroyed in WWII and forms with its well-proportioned form with powerful west work a beautiful example of post-war modernism (Mid-century modern) in Vienna.

The (presumably) first exposed concrete wall in Austria, equipped with concrete dimension work by Rudolf Szyszkowitz and the central portal with enamel mosaic by Otto Beckmann form the prelude to the clearly arranged basilical section of the interior, richly equipped with glass windows. At the start we are greeted by a statue of the 1934 canonized Ital. Priest and founder of the order Giovanni Melchiore Bosco, who was committed to disadvantaged children and young people throughout his life.

Besides the light-diffusing wall with stained glass windows by Georg Meistermann, the Stations of the Cross designed by Hermann Bauch, the choir windows by Margret Bilger and the „Symbols of Love in the Form of a Cross“ by Kurt Absolon are particularly impressive.