Niederkreising branch church
The Niederkreising branch church is located in the village of Niederlassung in the market town of Ried in der Riedmark in the Perg district in Upper Austria . The branch church of the parish church Ried in der Riedmark , consecrated on the feast of the Assumption of Mary , belongs to the Pregarten dean's office of the Linz diocese . The church is a listed building ( list entry ).
history
The church in Niederkreising is one of the oldest Marienkirchen in Upper Austria and was originally a spring shrine , which was only consecrated as a Marienkirche on September 8, 1123 when the Augustinian canons of St. Florian Monastery took over the parish .
The pilgrimage church located at the crossroads of important traffic connections is increasingly used as a baptismal and wedding church and is also used for regular church services.
Church building
In the place of an older, no longer verifiable, wooden church , a first Romanesque , 16 meter long stone church was built around 1123 , the remains of which were uncovered in 1984 in the 900 year old cemetery .
In 1360 there was an early Gothic renovation of the church. Late Gothic extensions were made in 1470 with the construction of a nave and in 1523 with the addition of a polygonal choir with buttresses. The gallery has a tracery parapet with leaf shapes, vortex wheels and fish bubbles and protrudes in the middle part towards the chancel.
In 1635 a baroque side door was installed and in 1671 the tower was built on the west facade. Between 1694 and 1694 the chancel was redesigned in Baroque style according to plans by Carlo Antonio Carlone .
The western yoke of the church is smaller than the following three. The side aisles have ribbed vaults, the central nave has a ribbed vault.
On the north side of the church there is a double portal with shoulder arches in a profiled ogival frame. The tympanum field contains the remains of a fresco Mary with Jesus between two angels.
Church interior
From the time of early Gothic church renewal in the 1360s Romanesque-Gothic parts date (especially a Romanesque stone pillar and the old altar plate) of the established in 1985, People's altar . In 1997 a copy of the Madonna of Montserrat was placed next to the popular altar. A so-called Black Madonna.
The left side altar is neo-Gothic and was built by Josef Kepplinger in 1887 . The right side altar from 1920 is also neo-Gothic and comes from Michael Plakolb.
The church has a ceiling painting (fresco) in the choir dome with the motif Mary among the saints ( Melchior Steidl , composed by Johann Gumpp the Elder) and donated a 1696 pen-Florian Baroque high altar with the altarpiece of the Assumption , the Martino Altomonte attributed becomes.
On the front left is the former high altar painting of the Madonna of the Protective Cloak by Clemens Beutler from 1670, as well as the painting of Mary with the 14 helpers in the former church of Marwach , which was originally demolished in 1788 .
In 1985 the church was extensively renovated. The picture of the Annunciation (by Francesco Tevisani), which was in the possession of a farmer in Obernberg, has been hung in the church since 1993.
In the nave hangs a Gothic crucifix from 1520 and opposite on the south wall there are copies of the Maria Annunciation and Maria Visitation of the winged altar from 1515 (originals in the Linz Castle Museum ). Between the two pictures stands the figure of Mary with flanking angels from the 2nd half of the 17th century.
literature
- Eckhard Oberklammer: Perg District - Art and History , Linz, 2010, pp 189 to 195
- Church history text on church notice board
Web links
- Archaeological information system for Upper Austria Filialkirche Mariä Himmelfahrt in Nieder approximately and excavations in the church of Nieder approximately
Coordinates: 48 ° 16 ′ 1.7 ″ N , 14 ° 32 ′ 55 ″ E