Branch church Eisenreichdornach
The branch church Eisenreichdornach is elevated free-standing on a lower terrace of the Ybbsfeld in Eisenreichdornach in Preinsbach in the municipality of Amstetten in the district of Amstetten in Lower Austria . The Roman Catholic branch church of the Amstetten-Herz Jesu parish church , consecrated to St. Agatha of Catania , belongs to the Amstetten deanery of the St. Pölten diocese . The church is a listed building ( list entry ).
history
In 1973, the remains of a Roman wall and the remains of a church from the 9th century, a hall church with a non-retracted apse, were excavated under the church. There is perhaps a connection with the well-preserved section fortifications of the 10th century on the Burgkogel in the northeast.
architecture
The core of the early Gothic hall church from the 12th and 13th centuries has a late Gothic raised choir and a half-set west tower.
The nave is undivided with early Gothic pointed arched windows with clover leaf tracery and a high circular window from the 17th century. The south portal is a chamfered shoulder portal from the 13th century. On the south wall there is a fragmented fresco St. Christophorus from the beginning of the 16th century. The remarkable high late Gothic choir under a lowered gable roof has cornered buttresses with bell-shaped, curved roofs and two- to three-lane tracery windows from the beginning of the 16th century in the north, strictly geometrically and otherwise curved. The core of the late medieval west tower under a pyramid helmet was changed in Baroque style with grooves and corner squaring, it has a late Gothic west portal.
The interior of the church shows a nave under a flat ceiling. The stab cap-arched west gallery stands on Tuscan columns. The drawn-in, richly profiled pointed triumphal arch is overlapped by the nave ceiling. The retracted, much higher, late Gothic choir with a three-eighths closure was built in the beginning of the 16th century (1513), the two-bay loop rib vault with apex squares rests on circular services. In the choir there is a north-facing door to the baroque pulpit staircase extension and a south-facing iron plate door with a handle from 1500 to the barrel-vaulted sacristy extension.
In the southern choir window there are three glass paintings with the donor Abbot Oswald Mayer in front of St. Michael as soul weigher 1513 and the apostles Philip and Jacob .
Furnishing
The high altar from 1716 from Bavaria has a rich three-axis tiered structure with sacrificial portals, the middle part is flanked by twisted columns, the moving entablature has a drapery and putti. The altarpiece Martyrdom of St. Agatha is above the sacrificial passage portals with monumental statues of St. John the Evangelist and Erasmus flanked. The volute-supported attachment shows the picture Mariahilf.
The baroque pulpit shows the coat of arms of Abbot Roman Märkl in 1721.
Andreas Schachner cast three bells in 1536. A so-called weather bell mentions 1610.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria south of the Danube 2003 . Amstetten, sacred buildings: Filialkirche hl. Agatha with floor plan. Pp. 41-43.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 7 ′ 43.9 ″ N , 14 ° 53 ′ 19.8 ″ E