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Der Linzer Mariendom. Ausdruck einer Zeitenwende? .

    Günther Buchinger, Tobias Lindorfer

ÖZKD LXXVII Heft 2, pp. 9-16, 2024/04/23

Der Linzer Mariendom

doi: 10.1553/oezkd2023-02s9

doi: 10.1553/oezkd2023-02s9

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doi:10.1553/oezkd2023-02s9



doi:10.1553/oezkd2023-02s9

Abstract

One of Austria’s most important examples of neogothic religious architecture from the nineteenth century, the artistic design of Linz’s Mariendom (New Cathedral) is the product of a complex combination of social transitions and political changes within the Church, as well as discussions in the arts, as analysed in this article. The construction project was initiated by Bishop Franz Joseph Rudigier, a disciple of clerical patriotism, who commissioned Vincenz Statz, an architect and stonemason trained in the Cologne cathedral workshop (Dombauhütte) who had a practice-oriented approach in the spirit of the Middle Ages. Congenially influenced by the attitudes of late Romanticism, they ventured into new artistic territory, crossing over the threshold to late Viennese Historicism without abandoning their roots in Romantic Historicism. The cathedral therefore stands at an artistic junction that coincides with a historical turning point for the Catholic church in Austria