Altenburg branch church

Altenburg branch church
to St. Bartholomew
Creation time :	Mentioned in a document in 1309
Conservation status:	very good
Standing position :	surrounded by a curtain wall
Geographical location	48 ° 16 '3.2 "  N , 14 ° 41' 16.8"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 16 '3.2 "  N , 14 ° 41' 16.8"  E
Height:	383  m above sea level A.

Altenburg Castle
Castle Hill. 18th century entrance and chapel.
Creation time :	Abandoned in 1250
Conservation status:	Terrain features
Geographical location	48 ° 16 '1.9 "  N , 14 ° 41' 11.2"  E
Height:	378  m above sea level A.

The Altenburg church and the associated Altenburg castle stable are located in the municipality of Windhaag near Perg in the Perg district in Upper Austria . From 1344 to 1784 the church was the parish church of the then Altenburg parish . Since 1784 it has been an important branch church of Windhaag near Perg. The Catholic branch church hl. Bartholomäus with the former cemetery , the Karner and the old school.

location

The branch church and the Burgstall are conspicuously located on a hilltop on a 200 m long strip of land, about 30 m high over 2 streams, the Schwertmüllerbach (Tobrabach) and the Hausbergbachl. There is only an access (road) from the north. The other sides drop off steeply. The hilly country of the Mühlviertel surrounds everything.

There used to be water mills on the streams. Actually all these mills and ancillary businesses fell into disrepair, including the sword mill (Freindorf N ° 7). There is now a modern sawmill below the Burgstall.

Below the church, the road leads to two significant places: to Windhaag Castle in the west and to Münzbach monastery and market in the east. But also the high court (gallows) was visible from afar on a hill next to the road to Münzbach.

history

Burgstall

The presumed early medieval castle was probably given up around 1250. Unfortunately, there is no documentary evidence. A honorabilis vir Conrad de Altenburch is mentioned in 1250 . This knight family, however, comes from Lower Austria.

Church and Parish

The church is believed to have been built around 1309. A weir system is assumed to be the predecessor. The old parish of Naarn was responsible for the construction . The church was consecrated to Saint Bartholomew . Altenburg was an independent parish from 1344 until the beginning of 1784 . Then came the Josephine reforms and the transfer of parish rights to Windhaag. The parish rights were transferred to the parish of Windhaag on March 6, 1784. The former parish church became a branch church.

In 1492, the noble family of Prague ( from Prague) received patronage and nomination rights over the parish. She then gave the church numerous donations and foundations.

The 3 parishes of Altenburg, Münzbach and Pergkirchen were Protestant in the second half of the 16th and the first decades of the 17th century , as the owners of the Windhaag rule, the Prague people , were Protestants at that time. The Protestant period began in 1570 with Andreas of Prague (1514–1569) and his son Friedrich of Prague († 1600). In 1587 Friedrich had the future pastor von Altenburg trained at the University of Tübingen. The 3 Windhaag parishes of Altenburg, Münzbach and Pergkirchen were considered strongholds of Protestantism in the Lower Mühlviertel. A school was also set up in a house that had belonged to the parish since 1344, the schoolhouse (Altenburg House N ° 2). The Protestant era finally ended with an imperial patent in 1624.

Joachim Enzmilner (1600–1678) became patron saint of the parish after acquiring the Windhaag rule after a lengthy legal dispute with the Abbot of Baumgartenberg . He then entrusted the fathers of the Dominican Monastery of Münzbach with pastoral care. These worked in Altenburg as parish vicars . The priests from nearby Münzbach did not live in the rectory. So the school was moved to the previous rectory (Altenburg House N ° 1). Eva Magdalena Enzmilner (1629–1700) gave, among other things, a new high altar, an old positive (the transportable organ) and a brass traffic light (for the eternal light) during her time as patron saint of the church. The plague came in 1684. It killed 91 people in the parish.

description

Altenburg Castle Stables

On the castle hill there are still features of the terrain of the substructure of a castle complex. The access from the north leads through a neck ditch (section ditch ). The chapel, built around 1700, stands on an elevation with a diameter of ~ 10 m, which indicates a tower structure. The subsequent flat terrain, ~ 25 m wide and ~ 50 m long, turns abruptly into steep slopes, indicating an artificial structure.

Altenburg Church

An older, single-nave rectangular longitudinal building, presumably a fortification, with Romanesque foundations already existed on the site . The gothic, single - nave, three- bay, ribbed, vaulted nave of the church with a retracted single - bay choir was placed on top of it. The church bell, cast in 1340 and weighing 100 kg, is one of the oldest bells in Upper Austria.

In the period around 1425 extensive construction work was carried out on the church because it was devastated by Hussite attacks. The curtain wall was probably the answer to the raids. Around 1510, the Prague family added the Chapel of St. Anne with a prayer room above, from which the Prague people could follow the service through a window. A rarity is in this space of the Renaissance - fireplace made of granite is The church portal comes from the time of the 1512th.

A staircase leads from the Anna Chapel to the crypt, which served as a burial place for the Prague family. Ladislaus Prager ( before 1486 - November 28, 1514) was a nobleman of great esteem, Hereditary Marshal of Carinthia , etc. Through his first wife Regina von Tannpeck († 1499), Ladislaus came to the fiefdom of Windhaag.

In the Altenburg crypt (dated 1512) there are still well-preserved frescoes with the namesake of the children of Ladislaus, the Last Judgment, as well as the coats of arms of the Prague and Fuxbergs. They were discovered in 1907 when the crypt was opened. Anna Fux von Fuxberg from Tyrol († around 1534) was the last wife and widow of Ladislaus.

At the beginning of the 21st century, the interior of the church was restored. In the foreground of the restoration work were the historically grown ensemble of the church interior and the traditional spatial impression.

The existing granite slabs of the floor were preserved in their irregularity. Only the glaze painting was touched up on the historic choir stalls and pews. The sump lime technique was used to paint the room, based on the state from the Baroque period . The Gothic fittings and the Gothic lattice of the sacrament house as well as the baroque altars and the canvas paintings have been restored .

The existing granite slabs of the floor were preserved in their irregularity. Only the glaze painting was touched up on the historic choir stalls and pews. The sump lime technique was used to paint the room, based on the state from the Baroque period . The Gothic fittings and the Gothic lattice of the sacrament house as well as the baroque altars and the canvas paintings have been restored .

During the work, a soffit of the wooden pulpit cover above the Gothic stone pulpit, dated 1572 and previously painted over, was discovered . It is a rich star-shaped design with wood inlays , in which friezes made of flat paper with brown woodcut print from the Renaissance are inlaid. Such coffered ceilings from the 16th century have rarely been found in Austria.

Transportable organ

The preserved organ (portative) of the church is a great feature. It was built around 1630 by the citizen and organ maker Hans Ulrich Schreyer (September 15, 1587–1648) in Steyr. Originally the organ was designed as a one-manual carrying organ that could be carried during church processions and secular occasions.

The organ was a gift from the prioress of the Dominican convent of Windhaag, Eva Magdalena Enzmilner (1629–1700) towards the end of the 17th century. The organ was enlarged a little for use in the church.

The organ, which had become unplayable over the years, was renovated in 1987 by the French organ builder Marc Garnier and employee Reinhold Humer from Ried im Innkreis and brought into playable condition. Gerhard Wünsche from Pfarrkirchen still improved the painting.

The organ is designed without a pedal and without a bench, so that the organist has to play the organ in a standing position. The organ disposition is covered 8 ′, flute 4 ′, principal 2 ′. The bellows had to be operated by pulling the straps horizontally. This is known as milking the organ. Since 1989 the organ has also had an electric drive.

Old school (museum)

House Altenburg N ° 2. The parish bought the house in 1344 and set up a school house in it, which was first mentioned in writing in 1420. In 1560 it became a Protestant country school. In 1624 it became a Catholic school again. After 1664 the old parsonage opposite became a school. The old schoolhouse was then privately owned from the 19th century. In 1984 the municipality of Windhaag bought the house. This was followed by the redesign to the Altenburg Museum , which opened in 2002.

Old rectory

House Altenburg N ° 1. Erected around 1500. In 1560 Protestant preachers took over the rectory. In 1624 Catholic pastors took it over again. In 1664 the fathers of the Dominican monastery in Münzbach were entrusted with pastoral care in Altenburg. They released the rectory for the school, which then moved in. In 1783 the school was finally moved to Windhaag. The old rectory has been privately owned since 1795.

Todays use

The church building, which is otherwise locked, can be viewed as part of a museum visit. The church and museum are popular locations for gatherings, devotions, and weddings.

The old rectory and the castle hill are privately owned.

Picture gallery

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  Windfall 1654

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  View from the west

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  View from the north

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  Information badge

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  High altar

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  Carrying organ

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  Crucifixion scene

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  Prague coat of arms

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  Crucifixion scene

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  Karner

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  Old rectory. N ° 1

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  Old school. N ° 2

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  Burgberg (Burgstall)

literature

• Josef Honeder (rector of the Petrinum grammar school from 1991 to 1996): Church leader Windhaag near Perg and Altenburg. Windhaag parish near Perg (publisher), Grein around 2000.
• Josef Honeder: Age and origin of the Altenburg organ. In: Yearbook of the Upper Austrian Museum Association Society for Regional Studies. 134th volume, Linz 1989 ( online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at).
• Altenburg, an Upper Austrian fortified church. In: Mühlviertler Bote. 1968.
• The frescoes in the Altenburg church - forgotten art treasures in the Mühlviertel. In: Mühlviertel news. 1970.
• Eibensteiner Konrad: The church Altenburg near Perg. In: Picture week of the Linzer Tages-Post . 1930.
• Georg Grüll : The church of Altenburg, parish Windhaag near Perg, in the change of times. In: Christian art sheets . 1925.
• Hans-Erich Ruß: Altenburg - history in stone and color. In: Mühlviertel news. 1973.
• Hans-Erich Ruß: Altenburg: Bright colors in a musty crypt. In: Linz church newspaper . 1974.
• Schiefthaler: The church in Altenburg, Perg district, and its crypt. In: Entertainment supplement of the Linzer Tages-Post. 1911.
• Josef Wallner: Rich, tough and devout. In the footsteps of Count Joachim Enzmilner in Münzbach and Altenburg. In: KirchenZeitung Diözese Linz . Linz 2002.
• Erwin Hanisch: Altenburg . In: Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.): Dehio-Handbuch Oberösterreich . Fourth edition. Anton Schroll, Vienna 1968, ISBN 3-9801412-1-7 , p. 19 .
• Georg Grüll: Castles and palaces in the Mühlviertel . Second edition. Birken-Verlag, Vienna 1968, p. 138 (Altenburg) .

Web links

Commons : Church and Burgstall Altenburg  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Altenburg Castle. In: doris.ooe.gv.at DORIS Digitales Upper Austria room information system, topic history, castles. Accessed February 16, 2020 . 

Individual evidence

1. ^ Patent of Emperor Ferdinand II, concerning the expulsion of Protestant preachers and schoolmasters. Lender: Upper Austrian Provincial Archives (Linz, Upper Austria), Weinberger Archives, Volume 30/7. In: uni-klu.ac.at. Retrieved May 18, 2020 . 
2. ^ Altenburg, branch church. ( Memento from November 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: Bundesdenkmalamt: From the activities of the State Conservatory for Upper Austria. Vienna 2001, p. 149.