Crypt chapel of the Counts of Fünfkirchen
The crypt chapel of the counts Pecs was 1,870 at the cemetery of Stützenhofen built. Under the chapel there is the family crypt of the five churches laid out in 1824 .
history
The interior of the church in Stützenhofen was already used as the burial place of the Fünfkirchen family in the late Middle Ages. Marble epitaphs by the knight Martin Fünfkirchen († 1458), Hans Maximilians († 1591) and Johann Sigismund († 1650) are still preserved in the church today. At the end of the 17th century, the Fünfkirchen founded a family crypt in the Augustinian Church in Vienna, but this was abandoned in 1784 as a result of the burial reform of Joseph II . Count Johann Ferdinand Fünfkirchen († 1789) and his wife Genoveva, b. Countess Montelabate della Rovere († 1810), were therefore buried in the cemetery in Stützenhofen. Her son Franz de Paula Fünfkirchen († 1815) erected a memorial cross with a dedication over her grave. In 1824 Count Otto Fünfkirchen had a new crypt built at the cemetery and the corpses of his father and grandparents reburied.
Crypt chapel
After the death of his wife Aloysia von Wurmbrand-Stuppach, Count Otto von Fünfkirchen had a monumental chapel built in the neo-Gothic style over the family crypt . The family coat of arms is placed above the entrance, above is a Gothic rose window and a bay window with a bell.
The rectangular interior is kept very simple and divided into two bays with groin vaults . The walls are in ocher, the ceiling in blue. The chapel has only wooden benches and an altar with a life-size figure of the risen Christ.
Buried people
Up to 1980, 16 people were buried in the crypt
- Johann Ferdinand Fünfkirchen (* 1741; † 1789) and his wife Genoveva (* 1741; † 1810), b. Countess Montelabate della Rovere
- Franz de Paula Fünfkirchen (* 1777; † 1815)
- Otto Franz Fünfkirchen (* 1800; † 1872) and his wife Aloysia (* 1802; † 1870)
- Franz Klemens (* Brno May 26, 1827; † Graz May 17, 1902) and his wife Ferdinande Brigido
- Karoline Sidonie (* 1833; † 1908), regent of the Savoy women's monastery
- Heinrich Fünfkirchen (* 1830; † 1885) and his wife Aloysia von Liechtenstein
- Otto Dionysus Fünfkirchen († 1946) and his wife Paula von Rechberg († 1942)
- Franz Fünfkirchen (* 1892; † 1965)
- Eleonore Tiedt, b. Fünfkirchen (* 1922; † 1980)
- Gabrielle Fünfkirchen (* 1903; † 1958)
- Karoline Fünfkirchen († 1980) was the last regent of the noble Savoy women's monastery and the last to be buried in the crypt.
Outside the crypt lie the "last count" Dr. Hans Fünfkirchen and his wife are buried. His tombstone bears the inscription SIC TRANSIT GLORIA GENESIS - This is how the glory of the family passes.
Trivia
A local tradition reports that the five churches as penance for their committed advocacy for Protestantism (see Johann Bernhard von Fünfkirchen ) only silent funerals, i.e. H. without music and singing, were allowed to. At the funeral of Dr. Hans Fünfkirchen in 1970 broke with this tradition for the first time and was sung by a choir in the chapel. The reason for this legend is the foundation of the chapel by Count Otto Fünfkirchen. In the letter of foundation of April 5, 1871, he decreed: “That no music will be permitted on any occasion in this place dedicated to the silent memory of the deceased”.
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- Heinrich Graf Fünfkirchen: The Fünfkirchen in Vienna, Enns, Steinebrunn and Falkenstein in the Mistelbach district. Lower Austria State Library, Bib-Sigel: NÖIL IDN: 28241
- Walter Franz Ziehensack: Land between Thaya and Zaya . Jugend & Volk, Vienna a. a. 1975, ISBN 3-7141-7600-4
Individual evidence
- ↑ Anton Schulla "Chronicle of the municipality Drasenhofen" 1985, page 233 and 254, NÖLB Verb.Nr. 158348
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Coordinates: 48 ° 44 ′ 25.8 " N , 16 ° 36 ′ 36.5" E