Winzendorf branch church

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Winzendorf branch church (2007)

The Roman Catholic branch church Winzendorf is a church in the village of Winzendorf in the market town of Winzendorf-Muthmannsdorf in Lower Austria . The branch church of the Assumption of Mary of the parish church Winzendorf belongs to the deanery Wiener Neustadt in the archdiocese of Vienna . The former parish church is a listed building .

history

Around 1300 the church, branch of the mother church St. Aegidius in St. Egyden am Steinfeld . The builders are unknown, but the church is likely to have been built either by the Stubenberg noble family of Styria or by the knightly devil family. The church, which at that time for the Archdiocese of Salzburg belonged, later became the burial rights granted for the parish. For this it was equipped with a carder . In 1776 an oversized church tower was put on the extension of the nave , which was popularly known as the "Mugl-Trumm-Thurm". In 1882 the tower had to be demolished because it was dilapidated. Today's church tower was built in 1885. The churchyard wall was torn down in the 19th century. In the church there is the family tomb of the devils , which is also remembered by a number of epitaphs . The heart and bowels of Duchess Elisabeth of Saxony , who died in Wiener Neustadt in 1594 , were buried here. After the construction of the new parish church of St. Joseph the Workers , the church was saved from decay by an initiative of the citizens, restored from 1985 and rededicated as a subsidiary church on August 15, 1990 ( Assumption of Mary ). In 1991, Winzendorf was awarded the Europa Nostra Prize for the exemplary restoration .

architecture

The church was formerly surrounded by a defensive wall. The hall church was rebuilt several times between the 13th and 15th centuries. The straight end of the choir dates from the third third of the 13th century. A late Gothic chapel is built on the north side of the choir. In the northwest is the tower from 1885 placed in front of the facade. The Karner stands in the southwest of the church.

The initially two-bay nave was later extended by another bay to the west. The transition from the second to the third yoke, originally the west facade, can be recognized on the inside by a recessed round arch and on the outside by a protruding wall extension in the south. The nave has a ribbed vault over consoles from the third third of the 15th century. The slightly longitudinally rectangular choir has a ribbed vault with single fluted ribs from the third third of the 13th century. In the north of the choir, a ribbed shoulder portal from the fourth quarter of the 15th century leads to the chapel extension or the sacristy with a ribbed vault.

Furnishing

The facility was redesigned during the last restoration from 1988 to 1991. The brick altar box contains a reliquary box with eleven cloth bags and silk fabric from the beginning of the 14th century. The altarpiece, a copy of a Gothic panel painting of the Death of the Virgin from the end of the 15th century, is shown in front of a back wall with baroque pseudo-architecture . The original of the altarpiece has been in the Vienna Cathedral and Diocesan Museum since 1900 .

A bell was cast by Christoph Packendorff in 1757.

literature

  • Rudolf Erlach, Karl Großschmidt, Erika Kanelutti, Anton Losert, Ingeborg Petraschek-Heim, Erwin Reidinger , Eike-Meinrad Winkler , Gernot Rabeder, Gustav Melzer, Rudolf Koch, Bernhard Hahnel, Roman Ginner: The medieval Church of the Assumption of Mary in Winzendorf, VB Wiener Neustadt, Lower Austria. In: Archaeologia Austriaca 74/1990, 131–236.
  • Erwin Reidinger : The medieval church Maria Himmelfahrt in Winzendorf. Unit of measurement and layout of the church. In: Archaeologia Austriaca 74/1990 Vienna, 140–152.
  • Christopher R. Seddon: The old parish church Maria Himmelfahrt zu Winzendorf as the burial place of the Freiherrn von Teufel. In: Studia Minora Facultatis Philosophicae Universitatis Brunensis / Sborník Prací Filozofické Faculty Brněnské Univerzity 49 (2002) 255–270.
  • The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria south of the Danube 2003 . Winzendorf, Filialkirche (former parish church) Maria Himmelfahrt, Karner, grave monuments, pp. 2717–2720.

Coordinates: 47 ° 48 ′ 18.3 ″  N , 16 ° 6 ′ 32.5 ″  E