Otto-Wagner-Kirche
Austria
The golden dome is what you see first, often from far across the west of Vienna, and it explains the nicknames. Locals have long compared it to half a lemon, which is why the Baumgartner Höhe beneath it has been called Lemoniberg, Zitronenhügel and even Monte la citrone. Those names were also used as euphemisms for the place the church was built to serve. Otto Wagner designed it between 1904 and 1907 as the chapel of the Lower Austrian asylum for the nervously and mentally ill at Steinhof, the hospital that later became the Otto-Wagner-Spital and, since 2020, the Klinik Penzing. You still walk up through hospital grounds to reach it.
- Written with AI from the Wikipedia article Kirche am Steinhof (de.wikipedia.org); facts only from there
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