Former All Saints Hospital
The Allerheiligen-Hospital was a citizens ' hospital west of the main square of the market town of Kirchberg am Walde in the Gmünd district in Lower Austria . The building has been preserved and is a listed building .
history
The All Saints Hospital was from 1715 to 1719 as a foundation under Count Johann Leopold Kuefstein the rule Kirchberg am Walde with a bound into the building Hospital Church of All Saints as Pfrundhaus built. The hospital church with the initial patronage of All Saints was profaned in 1783 . In 1838 the church was renovated on the initiative of Duke Blacas and re-consecrated in 1845 on the Assumption of Mary . From 1841 to 1848 the building was used as a Redemptorist monastery . The building is used as a residential complex (1990).
architecture
The ideal-typical system above the floor plan in the form of a Greek cross has the three-storey square choir tower of the integrated church in the middle . The nave is parallel to the tower choir to the north. Connecting corridors run around the tower choir and also form a square. The cross arms adjoin this square, with the northern cross arm being formed by the nave. The choir tower has arched windows and a pyramid roof. The facade is simply plastered. The windows have stone bezels and are arched in the nave. The nave has a rectangular portal. The south gable shows the year 1717. In the north-west corner to the north, a staircase with a late Gothic twin spiral staircase was installed and added, which was probably removed from a medieval castle complex elsewhere.
The connecting corridors around the choir tower have a needle cap barrel on the ground floor and a flat ceiling on the upper floor.
The two-bay nave has a groin vault and in the southern bay marbled sacristy and entrance portals. In 1838 a northern area in the eastern connecting corridor was separated and set up as a sacristy. The nave and the tower choir of the same width are connected by a retracted triumphal arch. The tower choir has a groin vault over the entire height. On the upper floor, to the east and west, marbled galleries with swinging parapets protrude into the choir tower.
Furnishing
The high altar from 1719 has a marbled structure with white stucco sculptures. On the side are two St. Religious women represented. The altar panel shows the Assumption of Mary by the painter August Bauer (1839). The excerpt shows an angelic glory with the Saints Nicholas and Felix of Cantalice .
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria north of the Danube 1990 . Kirchberg am Walde, Former All Saints Hospital, pp. 504–505.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 43 '25.7 " N , 15 ° 5' 4.6" E