Church of the Most Holy Trinity on St. George’s Hill at the edge of the Vienna Woods was the only architectural work by the famous Austrian sculptor Fritz Wotruba (1907-1975); it was built from 1974 to 1976.
Wotruba died before the completion of the church, which was inspired by a visit to Chartres Cathedral. To Wotruba, Chartres represented the essence of Europe, and Wotruba subsequently held up Chartres as a yardstick to his own work. Wotruba was first and foremost a sculptor, and the church was a collaboration with Fritz G. Mayr, who continued the work after Wotruba’s death.
The building consists of 152 asymmetrically arranged concrete blocks of a size between 0.84 m3 to 64 m3, weighing from 1.8 to 141 tons; the highest block measures 13.10m. The church, which borders the Wienerwald, is 30 m long, 22 m wide, and 15.5 m high. The unusual design created some local resistance.
During the Third Reich, the site where the church is located housed German Wehrmacht barracks.
