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The parish church of St Francis of Assisi, which is better known as the Jubilee Church or the Mexiko Church due to its location on Mexikoplatz in Leopoldstadt, was funded by donations. It is built in the High Romanesque historicist style. Dedicated to the 50th anniversary of Emperor Franz Josef I\u2019s reign, it was consecrated in November 1913 in the Emperor’s presence. Originally known as Erzherzog-Karl-Platz, the area was renamed Mexikoplatz in 1956 to commemorate Mexico\u2019s role in March 1938.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Victor Luntz, the architect commissioned for the project, was regarded at the Academy as the successor to Heinrich von Ferstel. He designed a three-nave basilica with a domed crossing and a neo-Gothic high altar, originally from Seckau, which is known as the ciborium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following the assassination of Empress Elisabeth in Geneva in 1898, the Neo-Romanesque ‚Empress Elisabeth Memorial Chapel‘, notable for its Art Nouveau interior, was added in her memory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The parish church of St Francis of Assisi, which is better known as the Jubilee Church or the Mexiko Church due to its location on Mexikoplatz in Leopoldstadt, was funded by donations. It is built in the High Romanesque historicist style. Dedicated to the 50th anniversary of Emperor Franz Josef I\u2019s reign, it was consecrated […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-2020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein","tag-1020wien"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2024,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020\/revisions\/2024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}