New Cathedral

The New Cathedral also known as the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception a Roman Catholic cathedral located in Linz, Austria. It is the biggest, though no longer the tallest church in Austria. Construction plans were started in 1855 through Bishop Franz-Josef Rudigier. The first stone changed into laid on 1 May 1862 an occasion solemnised through the performance of Anton Bruckner's Festive Cantata Preiset den Hern. In 1924 Bishop Johannes Maria Gföllner consecrated the finished building because the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. The plans, drawn by means of the master builder of the Archdiocese of Cologne, Vincenz Statz, were made inside the French high Gothic style. With 20,000 seats, the cathedral is the largest but now not the very best, church in Austria.

The in the beginning-planned, better spire changed into not permitted, due to the fact in Austria-Hungary on the time, no building became allowed to be taller than the South Tower of the St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna. At one hundred thirty five m, the New Cathedral is meters shorter than the Viennese cathedral.