Hl. Franz von Assisi
St. Francis of Assisi Church—Kirche zum heiligen Franz von Assisi—is also known as the Emperor’s Jubilee Church (Kaiserjubiläumskirche) and the Mexico Church (Mexikokirche), linking faith, imperial history, and international politics in one parish. The basilica-style Catholic church was built between 1898 and 1910 and was consecrated in 1913. Its construction celebrated the 50th anniversary of Emperor Franz Joseph I’s reign, and a design competition was won by architect Victor Luntz. Built of brick in a Rhenish-Romanesque manner, the church has three red-tiled towers that can be seen several kilometres away. On the left stands the Art Nouveau Elisabethkapelle, 13.5 metres high and 10 metres wide, an octagonal chapel modeled on the Palatine Chapel in Aachen. It was founded to commemorate Empress Elisabeth, after the 1898 assassination by Luigi Lucheni, and it was financed by a Red Cross donation of 348,348 crowns. …
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