Heinrichskirche (Mauthausen)

West view of the Heinrichskirche in Mauthausen

The former Heinrichskirche in Mauthausen (actually Heinrichskapelle) is located east of the Heindlkai in the market town of Mauthausen and belongs to the parish of Mauthausen .

It was originally built around the year 1000, was expanded at the end of the 15th century and housed a small Carmelite monastery for a few years, served as a Protestant prayer house in the 16th century and was a pilgrimage church in the 17th and 18th centuries .

In the course of the Josephine reforms , it was secularized at the end of the 18th century . At the end of the 19th century, parts of the church were demolished due to disrepair. The rest of the building functions as a chapel and mortuary.

description

Southeast view of the Heinrichskirche in Mauthausen

Church building

The Gothic former choir of the Heinrichskirche today forms the one-bay chapel with a 5/8 end . The polygon covers a hipped gable roof . The portal -Vorhalle is shallow and pointed arch and is a Baroque style closed gate.

In the gable field above consoles , a three - storey neo - Gothic gable turret with a pyramid roof was built in 1898 . There is a small sacristy on the south side .

Church interior

The chapel room is roofed by a Gothic ribbed vault with single grooved ribs on semicircular services . The former triumphal arch is visible on the west wall . A pointed arched portal leads to the former barrel-vaulted sacristy.

Mayor Leopold Heindl and his wife Eugenie donated two neo-Gothic church windows in 1898 on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the throne of Emperor Franz Joseph .

In the left window you can see the handing over of the deed of building by Emperor Heinrich II., The saint and his wife Kunigunde to the Passau bishop . The Heinrichskirche can be seen in the background after the renovation in 1897.

The right window shows the marriage of St. Elisabeth to Landgrave Ludwig IV of Thuringia . The bride and groom are shown far too old on the glass painting. The bride is holding a bouquet of blooming roses in her hand.

history

Emperor Heinrich II is said to have founded the church around the year 1000. Next to the church was a cemetery for the drowned, washed ashore and poor.

The Gothic choir , which still exists today, was built around 1400. From 1494 a small Carmelite monastery for three Carmelites was established in the Ladislaus Prager church , but they only stayed there until 1507. From 1544 to 1599 the Heinrichskirche was the church of the Mauthausen Protestants.

In 1694 fishermen found a Gothic statue of the Virgin Mary . The then owner of Pragstein Castle , Countess Cavriani , had the statue restored and at the same time baroque and placed in the Heinrichskirche. The Heinrichskirche gradually developed into the pilgrimage church of Maria Trost . On October 5, 1732, Emperor Charles VI lived. attend a mass in the church. In 1786 the church was closed as part of the Josephine reforms and reopened in 1787 after protests by the Mauthausen residents. Because of the close proximity to the salt shipping area, trade fairs for the safe transport of salt were also founded in the 18th century. The Heinrichskirche was one of the richest churches in Machland due to the income from the pilgrimages .

At the end of the 19th century the Heinrichskirche was dilapidated. While the Gothic choir was being renovated and the west facade was being redesigned, the nave was torn down. The statue of the Virgin Mary was transferred to the parish church in Mauthausen in 1892 , where it was later replaced by another statue, or at least changed significantly.

literature

• Eckhard Oberklammer : Perg district, art and history. Trauner, Linz 2010, ISBN 978-3-85499-826-6 .

Web links

Commons : Heinrichskirche  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jakobsweg ( Memento of the original from January 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. queried on October 10, 2011.  
2. ↑ Eckhard Upper bracket: District Perg, art and history. Linz 2010, p. 114f.
3. ↑ www.mauthausen.info - Tour through Mauthausen ( Memento of the original from April 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. queried on October 10, 2010.  

Coordinates: 48 ° 14 ′ 22.4 ″  N , 14 ° 31 ′ 19.9 ″  E