Branch church Baden-St. Helena

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Catholic branch church hl. Helena in Weikersdorf

The Roman Catholic branch church Baden-St. Helena is in the village of Weikersdorf in the municipality of Baden near Vienna in the Baden district in Lower Austria . It is dedicated to the feast of the Epiphany and, as a subsidiary church, belongs to the parish of Baden-St. Christoph to the deanery of Baden in the vicariate Unter dem Wienerwald of the Archdiocese of Vienna . The building is a listed building .

history

St. Helena goes back to a chapel in the early 13th century and was probably founded by Hella (short for Helena) von Steyr / Steinach, the wife of Hugo von Aigen-Weyersburg, who consecrated it to her namesake Helena. For the first time in a Melker document from the year 1518 the beneficiary Mr. Peter zu sand Helen under the Rauhenstein is mentioned. 1566 appears in Urbar Rauhenstein the Capelle St. Hellena in the castle Rauhenstein on. In 1584 Georg Saurer von Sauerburg received the order from Emperor Rudolf II to restore the chapel , which had been completely dilapidated by the Reformation, for Catholic worship. Construction began that same year and was designated as an earth burial for the family. In 1595 the foundation assets of the chapels of Rauheneck and Rauhenstein merged to form the chapel under the Rauhenstein with its own beneficiary.

In 1646, the Augustinian Convent of Baden under Emperor Ferdinand III. the announcement that the benefice to St. Helena was falling into disrepair, that the chapel had no roof, windows and altar, because the owner there, Hans Paul von Rauhenstein, was Lutheran .

In 1737, an extension was built by Salomon von Piazzoni. In 1754, Piazzoni's widow, Anna Magdalena von Doblhoff, donated a benefit. In 1761 a priest's house with a garden was built, next to it a house for a hermit or forest brother. The hermits of St. Helena provided church service from 1757 until they were repealed by Joseph II in 1783. In 1783 St. Helena was raised to its own location , but between 1804 and 1807 it was temporarily administered by the parish of St. Stephan in Baden .

In 1864 the little church was given a brick wall instead of the previous wooden porch. In 1865 a new sacristy was built and the pulpit was moved closer to the people. In 1892 the church was renovated and the glass windows on the side were made. In 1914, with the introduction of electric light, another renovation took place. In 1917, and then again in 1942, the bells had to be delivered. In autumn 1947, the two bells came from the devastated and finally demolished Weilburg chapel to the tower of St. Helena, while the previous small bell from the tower reached the Helenenfriedhof . In 1950 the roof structure was repaired, in 1951 an exterior renovation and in 1952 an interior renovation of the church. In 1957 the sacristan and organist house was sold. On September 1, 1957, the parish was finally moved from St. Helena to St. Christoph. The Helenenkirche thus became a branch church with its own rector . In 1971 the popular altar was erected , using the canteen for the pottery altar. In 1974 a covered passage to the rectorate building was created. In 1976 the interior was renovated, and it turned out that the former Gothic chapel was larger than previously thought. The exterior of the church and the Rector's House were renovated in 1979.

architecture

Pottery altar

The Helenenkirche is a single-aisled hall church with an octagon end of the choir . Three construction periods can be recognized by it:

  • a Gothic chapel, of which the choir with its ridged vaults and pointed-arched windows has been preserved;
  • the eastern part of the nave, roofed flat, with arched windows;
  • the western extension of the ship, wider than its eastern part and separated from it by a girder ; the corners of the extension are convex ; here, too, there are arched windows ; This third part is probably the extension from 1737.

The relief on the left end of the nave represents the most valuable piece of the church and is called the pottery altar . This large sandstone relief dates from around 1500 and was later given a baroque frame of cherub heads and putti . The relief depicts the Most Holy Trinity , surrounded by small ruffled cloud crests. The Trinity altar in the Helenenkirche today was originally a donation from the Viennese pottery mine to St. Stephen's Cathedral . According to the prohibition of the representation of the Holy Spirit in human form under Pope Benedict XIV. In 1745, as well as the private foundation of a new Trinity Mensa St. Stephen was the altar in 1751 by 50 florins to the owner of the rule Rauhenstein, Franz Anton von Quarient sold and placed by this in its current place.

Rectory

Gate tower of the rectory

The rectory ( location ) was built in 1761 parallel to the church. In 1957 it became the Rector's House.

The two-storey building is crowned with one of Schleppgaupen interspersed hipped roof . The plaster frame-structured facade is coated with trickle plaster . The gate wall , which connects the church and the rectory, is gabled , and in the conche embedded in it there is a three-quarter statue of St. Helena . In the interior are kept: one canvas picture each of hll. Helena, Leopold and Petrus , each designated for 1867 as Franz Lair (1812–1875).

Like the church , the rectory is a listed building .

literature

Web links

Commons : Filialkirche Baden-St. Helena  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lower Austria - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. ( Memento from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) . Federal Monuments Office , as of June 27, 2014 (PDF).
  2. Viktor Wallner: Houses, people and stories - a Baden anecdotal walk . Ed .: Society of Friends of Baden. Baden 2002, p. 150 .
  3. Ressel: Kirchen und Kapellen , p. 102.
  4. ... m ...: The so-called pottery altar in St. Helenakirche .
  5. ^ Ressel: Churches and Chapels , p. 105.
  6. ^ (Erich) EggLair (Layr, Layer), Franz Xaver. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1969, p. 406.
  7. Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.): Dehio-Handbuch. The art monuments of Austria . Lower Austria south of the Danube. Part 1, A to L. Berger Verlag, Horn / Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85028-364-X , p. 158-159 .

Remarks

  1. In the question of naming, Wallner refers to a statement made in 1978 by the archivist of Heiligenkreuz Abbey , Hermann Watzl .
    According to another representation, the name Helena is supposed to be based on the goddess of the dead Helia . - The Drescher family: Forays into and around Baden, taking into account a lot of historical data . Ed .: Kurt Drescher. Drescher, Baden 1982.
    OBV .

Coordinates: 48 ° 0 '41.4 "  N , 16 ° 12' 17.4"  E