Basilica of the Birth of Mary (Maria Roggendorf)

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East tower at the apex of the choir of the basilica by the Baroque master builder Carlo Antonio Carlone
The two side altars with four pictures by Martin Johann Schmidt
Choir with frescoed choir closure and free-standing altar
Image of grace Tender Mary with child on leather from the 15th century

The parish and pilgrimage church of the Birth of the Virgin Mary is a Roman Catholic pilgrimage church in the cadastral community of Maria Roggendorf in the market town of Wullersdorf in Lower Austria and was elevated to a minor basilica in 1988 .

history

The high-proportioned early Baroque hall church with an east tower at the apex of the choir was built as a pilgrimage church by the Göttweig monastery between 1651 and 1653 and is architecturally in the footsteps of the students of the baroque master builder Cypriano Biasino . After a fire in 1695, the tower was built and the church was renovated by Carlo Antonio Carlone by 1696 . After the heyday of pilgrimages in the 18th century, the church was elevated to a parish church in 1782. The pilgrimage ended with Josephinism in 1785. After the restoration of the originating from the 15th century, painted on leather miraculous image was that on September 14, 1969 Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross , at the initiative of the priest, later Benedictine and Archbishop of Vienna , Hans Hermann Groër rededicated and the pilgrimage to each 13th Day of the month newly established based on Fátima .

External church building

The simple, towering nave under a gable roof closes on the main portal side with a volute gable with a triangular point and on the choir side with a stepped curved volute gable with niches and pyramid and spherical attachments. The slightly retracted choir, closed on three sides, has a slightly deeper gable roof. The church has lancet windows with gothic keel arches coupled to the nave and choir . There are three rectangular portals with finely rusticated walls , the western main portal has pilasters and a gable top. The mighty, squat tower was added to the apex of the choir and has a two-storey corner pilaster structure above the choir cornice and a tapered eight-sided dome with a drum and lantern including flanking corner pyramids above the bell storey .

Inner church building

The mighty, high pilaster church is the same height inside the nave and choir. The three-bay nave has a groin vault over double belts and shield arches on pilasters with high entablature heads on the wall pillars and was renewed after a fire and collapse in 1695. The organ gallery on three column arcades with barrel vaults has a parapet with a swinging middle section with plaster cut fields. The high, drawn-in triumphal arch rests on pillars. The two-bay choir with a semicircular connection has a groin vault on pillars with Corinthian capitals . South of the choir is a multi-curved ornamented oratorio from 1762.

Furnishing

The semicircular apse has a frescoed pseudo-architecture with pilaster structure, entablature structure and coffered conche and the grisaille side figures of Saints Gregory the Great and Altmann von Passau on raised base with the depiction of the Assumption and Coronation of Mary . The Holy Trinity and the Resurrection and Ascension of Christ in the cone were probably painted by the student Andreas Rudroff around 1800 as a successor to Martin Johann Schmidt . The altarpiece Descent of the Holy Spirit is by Andreas Rudroff. The free-standing altar with tempo tabernacle in late Baroque forms was built around 1800.

The marbled side altars, which slope the corners of the nave, have a volute retable with segmental arches with volute excerpts and were created by Joseph Pollak around 1762, the altar leaves from 1762 by Martin Johann Schmidt show Christ on the cross on the left and Reue Petri in the upper image , and on the right the death of St. Benedict and in the upper picture St. Scholastics .

The pulpit with an articulated rectangular basket was created by Jerig Sturm in 1767, the rear image shows Christ, the sound cover with acanthus canopy was made around 1700. There is a carved figure of Mary with child around 1500 and a crucifix with the assistant figures of Saints Mary and John from the first half of the 18th century Century, a baroque lecture cross with the tools of suffering . The miraculous image of Mary with child as a varied Mariahilf type with painting and fabric trimmings on leather was first mentioned in a document in 1667 and renewed in the 18th century. The seating is in late baroque forms. Two Easter candlesticks are from the second quarter of the 18th century. Wrought iron candle holders in the choir are from the beginning of the 18th century. In the sacristy are the votive pictures of the Holy Trinity from 1732, the shipwreck from 1761, a Byzantine miraculous image of Mary with child in a late Baroque frame and an auxiliary image of Mary from the first half of the 19th century.

The first organ was created by Matthäus Mauracher in 1880 and was rebuilt in 1994 by master organ builder Friedrich Heftner . Mathias Prininger cast a bell in 1695 .

literature

  • Dehio Lower Austria north of the Danube 1990 , Maria Roggendorf, parish and pilgrimage church Mariae Birth, in the center of the village, pages 717f.
  • Augustine Andre: Pilgrimage for the Church. Salterrae-Schriftenapostolat, Maria-Roggendorf 1986, ISBN 3-900978-02-6 .
  • Hans Hermann Groër : Festschrift consecration of the new organ of the Maria Roggendorf basilica. Pilgrimage Directorate, Maria Roggendorf 1994.
  • Gottfried Holzer: Maria Roggendorf. 2nd Edition. Dom Verlag, Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-85351-104-X .
  • Hermann Maurer : Devotional pictures by Maria Roggendorf. In: Our home. 73, 2002, p. 220ff.
  • Hermann Maurer: Another devotional picture by Maria Roggendorf. In: Our home. 74, 2003, p. 37ff.

Web links

Commons : Church Maria Roggendorf  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 48 ° 37 ′ 7.5 ″  N , 16 ° 8 ′ 11 ″  E