Wiener Neustadt Cathedral

Wiener Neustadt Cathedral, or the Cathedral of the Assumption of Mary and St. Rupert, is a Catholic church positioned in Wiener Neustadt, Austria. Now a parish church, it turned into previously the cathedral of the diocese of Wiener Neustadt among 1468 and 1785, the yr of the suppression of the diocese. The place and orientation of the constructing have been selected and designed in the Middle Ages. The nave faces north and west in alignment with dawn on the day of Pentecost on May 24, 1192, whilst Duke Leopold V turned into invested by means of Emperor Henry VI. In 1207 the construction of the Romanesque church commenced.

It turned into consecrated in 1279. From 1588 to 1630, Melchor Klesl become the administrator of the diocese, and constructed the primary Baroque pulpit. The Baroque altar with the altarpiece of the Assumption of Mary through Giandomenico Cignaroli changed into outfitted in 1776. In 1886 the westwork and its towers have been demolished due to harm from an earthquake; they have been later rebuilt beneath the route of the Viennese architect Richard Jordan. On March 6, 2012, a hearth affected the cathedral, which changed into closed for six months to permit for upkeep.