St. George's Cathedral, Wiener Neustadt, Gothic cathedral in Wiener Neustadt, Austria.
St. George's Cathedral is a three-aisled Gothic church built from 1440 on the west side of Burg Wiener Neustadt, measuring 32.15 m long, 18.80 m wide and 15.01 m high. It has no apse; eight round columns over 13 m tall support a star-rib vault in the nave and cross-rib vaults in the aisles. A three-sided gallery carries 55 coats of arms, and the floor is laid with Untersberg marble.
The cathedral was commissioned in 1440 by Frederick III, the Holy Roman Emperor, and designed by architect Peter von Pusica. Its consecration took place roughly two decades after construction began.
The cathedral serves as the principal church of Austria's Military Ordinariate and brings together religious worship with military ceremonies. Visitors can see how the space functions as both a spiritual center and a place for remembrance and formal occasions.
The cathedral sits inside Burg Wiener Neustadt, entered from the main portal of 1777 via a double staircase; the floor is laid with Untersberg marble. The interior was reworked in 2019 for Maximilian I's 500th anniversary, and a 1990 anteroom holds the marble sarcophagus of military bishop Alfred Kostelecky.
Only the three east windows keep their old stained glass; the other windows are filled with blue antique glass. A single column before the right oratory survived the 1945 bombing with a fresco cycle from Frederick III's time, showing nine scenes from the life of Jesus after Luke.
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