Maria-Hilf-Kirche

Maria-Hilf-Kirche, or Mariahilfkirche, anchors the central Mariahilfplatz in the Au. This Catholic parish church is a Gothic Revival building, begun in 1831 and carried forward by architect Joseph Daniel Ohlmüller—with completion credited to Georg Friedrich Ziebland—in the span that reaches 1839. Its profile became the Au’s visual reference point, often described as an early model for 19th-century Neo-Gothic church architecture. The church also ties into a larger story of the Au’s changing sacred landscape: the area once held three churches around a common central green, the Rasenplatz—today’s Mariahilfplatz. Among them was the Heilig-Kreuz-Kapelle, consecrated in 1466, which had to be pulled down in the 1810s after its condition was condemned and the removal was approved in 1814. …

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