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Peterskirche

The Peterskirche is a Baroque Roman Catholic parish church in , . It was transferred in 1970 by the Archbishop of Vienna Franz Cardinal König to the priests of the Opus Dei.
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  • Type: Church
  • Denomination: Roman Catholic
  • Description: Baroque Roman Catholic parish church in Vienna, Austria
  • Also known as: “Filialkirche hl. Peter”, “Peterskirche, Vienna”, and “St. Peter’s Church”
  • Address: Petersplatz 6, Wien, 1010
  • Wheelchair access: no

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include St. Stephen’s Cathedral and Plague Column, Vienna.

Church
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St. Stephen's Cathedral is a Roman Catholic church in , and the mother church of the Archdiocese of Vienna. It is the seat of the Archbishop of Vienna, Christoph Schönborn. is situated 260 metres southeast of Peterskirche.

Photo: Thomas Ledl, CC BY-SA 3.0 at.
The Plague Column, or Trinity Column, is a Holy Trinity column located on the , a street in the of , . Erected after the Great Plague epidemic in 1679, the Baroque memorial is one of the best known and most prominent sculptural artworks in the city.

Museum
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The Austrian National Library is the largest in , with more than 12 million items in its various collections. The library is located in the of the in of . is situated 440 metres southwest of Peterskirche.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bermudadreieck and Josefstadt.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood.

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is the 8th district of . It is bounded on the north side by Alser Straße, by the "2er Linie" on the east, Lerchenfelder Straße on the south, and the Gürtel on the west.

Suburb
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was an independent municipality until 1850 and is since then divided between and , the 8th and 9th districts of , respectively.

Peterskirche

Latitude
48.20944° or 48° 12′ 34″ north
Longitude
16.36998° or 16° 22′ 12″ east
Inception
1702
Height
24 metres (79 feet)
Named after
Saint Peter
Open location code
8FWR6959+QX
Open­Street­Map ID
way 23329490
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­place_of_worship
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­church
Open­Street­Map attribute
denomination=­roman_catholic
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­no
Wiki­data ID
Q693884
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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Ukrainian—“Peterskirche” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Սուրբ Պետրոս եկեղեցի (Վիեննա)”
  • Armenian: “Սուրբ Պետրոս եկեղեցի”
  • Chinese: “圣彼得教堂”
  • Chinese: “維也納聖伯多祿教堂”
  • Chinese: “维也纳圣伯多禄教堂”
  • Czech: “kostel svatého Petra”
  • Czech: “Kostel svatého Petra”
  • Czech: “Peterskirche”
  • Dutch: “Sint-Petruskerk (Wenen)”
  • Dutch: “Sint-Petruskerk”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كنيسه القديس بطرس”
  • Esperanto: “Preĝejo de Sankta Petro (Vieno)”
  • Esperanto: “Preĝejo de Sankta Petro”
  • Estonian: “Püha Peetruse kirik (Viin)”
  • Estonian: “Viini Püha Peetruse kirik”
  • French: “église Saint-Pierre de Vienne”
  • French: “Église Saint-Pierre de Vienne”
  • French: “Église Saint-Pierre”
  • German: “Kath. Filialkirche hl. Peter”
  • German: “Peterskirche”
  • Greek: “Εκκλησία Αγίου Πέτρου”
  • Greek: “Πέτερσκιρχε”
  • Hebrew: “כנסיית פטרוס הקדוש (וינה)”
  • Hungarian: “Peterskirche”
  • Hungarian: “Szent Péter-templom”
  • Indonesian: “Peterskirche, Wina”
  • Italian: “Chiesa di San Pietro”
  • Italian: “Peterskirche”
  • Japanese: “ペーター教会”
  • Japanese: “聖ピーター教会”
  • Japanese: “聖ペテロ教会”
  • Korean: “성 베드로 성당”
  • Polish: “Kościół św. Piotra w Wiedniu”
  • Romanian: “Biserica Sfântul Petru din Viena”
  • Russian: “Церковь Святого Петра”
  • Spanish: “iglesia de San Pedro”
  • Spanish: “Iglesia de San Pedro”
  • Spanish: “Peterskirche”
  • Tatar: “Изге Питер чиркәве”
  • Ukrainian: “Церква Святого Петра”

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