Votivkirche

OK, I am really on a roll posting the Vienna pictures. See, I am procrastinating. We did a bit of organizing today and now I am procrastinating wedding knitting, cooking dinner, and other cleaning or baking. Hmm, that's a lot.

Anyway, while in Vienna, we of course visited every church we passed that was open. One of them was Votivkirche. Apparently it is one of the most important neogothic churches in the world! The church was built on the site of an attempted murder of Emperor Franz Joseph. Apparently, he was attacked with a knife but since he always wore a high collared uniform, his life was spared. His brother, Ferdinand Maximilian Joseph (later emperor of Mexico) later called for donations to build a church on the site. The church was to be a thank you present to God. The church was dedicated 24 April 1879, 26 years after being started.