3D print the Karlskirche
A free, printable model of the Karlskirche, its tall dome, columned portico and two free-standing columns, with the park, water and dense buildings around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Karlskirche
Vienna's Karlskirche (Charles Church) is a Baroque church on Karlsplatz, dedicated to Saint Charles Borromeo. He was one of the Counter-Reformation's leading figures. It sits where Wieden meets the Innere Stadt, which is the city center. A year after the city's last major plague epidemic, in 1713, Emperor Charles VI vowed to build a church for his namesake patron saint, whom people honored as a healer of plague sufferers.
Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach won the architectural competition, beating Ferdinando Galli-Bibiena, Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt and others. Work started in 1716. When Fischer died in 1723, the architect's son, Joseph Emanuel Fischer von Erlach, took over and completed the building in 1737, altering the original plans. Until 1918 it served as the imperial patron parish church, and it originally had an open sightline to the Hofburg. Antonio Vivaldi was buried in the adjacent Spitaler Gottesacker cemetery on July 28, 1741, and the grave was later lost.
The central facade that leads to the porch recalls a Greek temple portico. Two flanking columns by Lorenzo Mattielli, taking their cue from Trajan's Column in Rome, carry episodes of Charles Borromeo's life in spiral relief. Beside them, two tower pavilions reflect Roman baroque influence, namely Bernini and Borromini. A dome rises above a high drum that the younger Fischer shortened and partly altered. The church is considered the elder Fischer's greatest work.
How it prints
Make this print opens the generator on a 600 m square around the landmark. Buildings print at close to true scale, so the landmark grows with the print size.
| Print size | Landmark height | Scale |
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| 160 mm default | 20 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 25 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 32 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Two slender spiral columns
- Two tall free-standing columns with spiral reliefs flank the portico. Print friendly adapts thin parts like these to your print scale; Full detail keeps them, best printed slowly with good cooling and 0.12 to 0.16 mm layers.
- Dome lantern and cross
- A small lantern and cross crown the dome. A larger print keeps this finial and the fine carved details easier to read.
- One piece with the ground
- The Karlskirche is joined to the ground in the exported file, and the four-side check found no floating parts, so nothing needs gluing.
- Pick the detail for your nozzle
- In the Buildings settings, set Landmark detail to Print friendly to adapt thin parts and small details to the print scale. Full detail keeps every modeled feature, for larger prints or a finer nozzle.
- Colors
- Buildings, roads, water and ground arrive as separate filament slots in the 3MF. The Karlskirche takes the building color.
- File format
- You get a 3MF for Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer or PrusaSlicer. Any of them can save it as STL if you need one.
About this model
The Karlskirche is one of more than 2,300 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.
Common questions
Is there a Karlskirche STL I can download?
Mini Skyline builds the file for you in your browser and exports 3MF, which every major slicer opens. If you need an STL, open the 3MF in your slicer and export it from there.
How big can I print it?
Any print size from 40 mm across. The Karlskirche grows with the print: about 20 mm tall on the default 160 mm print. For a model larger than your printer bed, Project Mode splits the area into tiles.
Is it free?
Yes. Generation runs in your browser, with no account and nothing behind a paywall.
