Originally built as a chapel for the Steinhoff Asylum patients, the church is a masterpiece designed by Otto Wagner who contracted the best available masters who designed glassworks, metalworks, fresco painting... At the time it was built the budget was not the problem and it was recently refurbished, cleaned and polished - so it is one of the best displays of the Viennese Secession one can see in Vienna nowadays. The Steinhoff Mental Health Asylum, located in a beautiful park on a hill above Vienna, with lavish flower-carpets covering landscaped slopes, looks more like a private Swiss-Alpes sanatorium than a mental hospital from the 19th century. One can only wander how human the Empire under Franz Josef must have been, to build such extravagant hospitals for its most vulnerable citizens. Check out opening times as the church is open only few hours a day!