Churches and Cathedrals in Vienna

Among the most impressive buildings in Vienna are the churches and the cathedral churches. These monuments of past glorious ages are various in style, scale and size and many of them are among the main tourist attractions of Vienna. Some of the cathedrals are so large and richly decorated that their full completion took centuries.


One of the first things the tourists do after unpacking the luggage in hotels Vienna is offering, is to see St. Stephen's cathedral. As the most important religious building in Austria's capital, the cathedral has borne witness to many important events in that nation's history and has, with its multi-coloured tile roof, become one of the city's most recognizable symbols. Its current Romanesque and Gothic form seen today was largely initiated by Rudolf the 4th and stands on the ruins of two earlier churches, the first being a parish church consecrated in 1147.

The Karlskirche is one of the most outstanding baroque church structures, and boasts a dome in the form of an elongated ellipsoid. The Karlskirche has garnered fame due to its dome and its two flanking columns of bas-reliefs, as well as its role as an architectural counterweight to the buildings of the Vienna Music hall and of the Vienna University of technology.

The Votivkirche is one of the most important neo-Gothic religious architectural sites in the world. The church plans were established in an architectural competition in April 1854. The jury choose the project of Heinrich von Ferstel, who, at the time, was only 26. The church is made out of white sandstone, similar to the Stephansdom, and therefore has to be constantly renovated and protected from air-pollution and acid rain, which tends to colour and erode the soft stone.

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