Peace Church Döllersheim
The church of Döllersheim in Lower Austria is considered to be the most important church building in terms of art history in the area that was evacuated for the Döllersheim military training area. It is under monument protection ( list entry ) and under the protection of the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict .
History and description
The time of the construction of the church of Döllersheim , consecrated to Saints Peter and Paul , which originally belonged to the parish Altpölla , is not known.
In the Romanesque era , the church consisted of a narrow nave with a presumably right-angled choir and was expanded to include the west tower and two aisles in the second half of the 14th century. A Gothic choir was built at the beginning of the 15th century . The nave, badly damaged after a Hussite attack in 1427, was demolished and rebuilt in the second half of the 15th century.
In 1620 - during the Thirty Years War - the church, which had five altars, was looted. Hanns Albrecht Freiherr von Lamberg, owner of Ottenstein , gave the church a new altar dedicated to St. Nicholas in 1629, the altarpiece of which was still preserved from around 1910. In 1859 a new high altar was built.
In 1919 a memorial plaque was placed in the gate entrance of the parish church to commemorate those who fell and went missing during the First World War in the Döllersheim parish.
As the last parish in the region affected by the resettlement, the Döllersheim parish was dissolved by the responsible church authorities on October 1, 1942.
From 1976, the ruins of the parish church in Döllersheim were treated for conservation purposes. Among other things, the central nave received a new roof, the inclination of which, however, does not correspond to the original one. The vaults of the choir, the two side aisles and the western gallery were also restored. Since 1981 the parish church of Döllersheim, the cemetery and the hospital are no longer in the restricted military area and can be visited at any time.
On September 13, 1986, the church was simply ordained by Bishop Franz Žak . It is again under the patronage of the apostles Peter and Paul, but was given the name "Friedenskirche". On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the forced evacuation, an ecumenical service was held on May 23, 1988, which was also broadcast live on television by ORF .
Karner
On the occasion of a foundation in 1374, a charnel house is also mentioned, which after 1660 was designated as the chapel of St. Michael in the cemetery. In 1770 the Karner received a new roof, but towards the end of the 18th century it was covered and finally demolished in 1802.
literature
- Evelyn Benesch: Lower Austria. North of the Danube (= The Art Monuments of Austria = Dehio-Handbuch Niederösterreich = Dehio Niederösterreich ). Revised edition. Schroll, Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-7031-0652-2 .
- Paul Buberl: The monuments of the political district Zwettl in Lower Austria (without Zwettl Abbey). Part 1: Allentsteig judicial district (= Austrian art topography . Vol. 8, 1). Commissioned by Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1911.
- Johannes Müllner: The desecrated homeland. 2nd Edition. Association Information Waldviertel, Allentsteig 1998, ISBN 3-9500294-0-0 .
- Willibald Rosner (ed.): The military training area Allentsteig. Region, origin, use and effects (= studies and research from the Lower Austrian Institute for Regional Studies. Vol. 17 = Lectures and discussions of the 12th Symposium of the Lower Austrian Institute for Regional Studies = Lower Austrian Writings 55 Science ). Lower Austrian Institute for Regional Studies, Vienna 1991, ISBN 3-85006-046-2 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Rosner: The Allentsteig military training area.
- ^ Buberl: Austrian art topography.
- ↑ Schindler: You have to go.
- ^ Rosner: The Allentsteig military training area.
- ↑ "Friedenskirche" in Döllersheim.
- ↑ Müllner: The desecrated home.
Coordinates: 48 ° 37 ′ 13.5 ″ N , 15 ° 18 ′ 38 ″ E