Parish Church of Statzendorf
The Roman Catholic parish church of Statzendorf is in the village of Statzendorf in the municipality of the same name in Lower Austria . The parish belongs to the Göttweig deanery of the diocese of St. Pölten . It is consecrated to St. Mark ( patronage on April 25th).
history
Settlement has already been proven in prehistoric times, as a find from the Neolithic Age proves. It was first mentioned in a document in 1004.
A chapel in Statzendorf was first documented in 1284. In the course of the Josephine restructuring in 1784, the parish was formed from parts of the parishes Herzogenburg, Oberwölbling and Getzersdorf and incorporated into the Herzogenburg monastery. Today's church also dates from this time.
description
This church, surrounded by a cemetery, is a simple hall church building with a slightly indented choir with a flat arched end from the late Baroque period of the 18th century. A tower in front on the west side of the church has an onion helmet and was later surrounded by extensions. The elongated interior of the church has a simple flat stucco ceiling.
The former baroque facility with three altars and a pulpit was largely removed and modernized in the course of the liturgical reorganization in 1964. The rounded, re-entrant apse was also redesigned with enamel work on the ambo and tabernacle by Professor Martin Seitz from St. Pölten. A life-size crucifix from the 2nd half of the 18th century was attached to the apse. The baroque tabernacle (end of the 18th century) with a copy of a late Gothic Madonna is on the right wall of the nave, opposite is a baroque radiant Madonna, also from this period. A picture of Jesus crucified (early 19th century) is on the left wall of the apse. A Sacred Heart and a Virgin Mary are located on either side in front of the apse. A stone column with the stone loaf of bread is on the left in front of the apse, on the right is the baptismal font. A baroque crucifix from the 18th century can be found on the ground floor of the tower, pictures of the Stations of the Cross come from the second half of the 19th century.
organ
The new two-manual organ from the Reil brothers (Netherlands) with 14 registers was consecrated on May 31, 1992 after four years of planning and construction.
The instrument has the following disposition :
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- Coupling : II / I (sliding coupling), I / P, II / P
- Tremulant on the whole work
- Well-tempered mood : Werkmeister III
The stone loaf of bread
According to a legend, a peasant woman is said to have refused hungry pilgrims a loaf of bread on the way to Mariazell , which petrified as a result. This stone, resembling a loaf of bread, was brought to the parish church. Here he was visited again and again later by the pilgrims, so that the parish church is also called the Church of the Stone Loaf of Bread .
Photo gallery of the parish church Statzendorf
View from the entrance to the altar
The sanctuary
The " stone loaf of bread "
The rear part of the church seen from the altar
The parish church seen from the northwest side
Others
Rectory Statzendorf
The parish church also includes the listed rectory, which was built in 1796 by the Herzogenburg Abbey. It is located on the western side of the L100 about 100 meters north of the church and consists of a main building and an auxiliary building, which also contains a small parish hall with a kitchenette.
Other churches belonging to the parish
Filial church Absdorf
The former palace chapel was built before 1500 and belonged to the St. Peter monastery in Salzburg and is consecrated to the patroness St. Helena . The chapel including the Meierhof later belonged to the Ledochovkis and was transferred to the Petrus-Claver-Sodality (Maria Sorg near Salzburg) with a donation agreement from 1947, registered in the land register in 1952 , which is still the owner today. It is a small Gothic-Baroque hall church (the main nave was built around 1773) with a polygonal late Gothic choir with buttresses, to which a square tower with a new pointed spire is built on the south side. The early baroque high altar is black and gold, the high altar picture depicts Saint Helena finding the cross.
Kuffern branch church
The first written mention of the place Kuffern comes from the year 1075, it was a free noble seat with a castle and property. The site is known for its discovery in 1891: the situla , a Celtic bronze wine bucket (475–425 BC), was found in a warrior's grave .
The small church (patron St. Pancras ) is very old and has a varied history. It used to have its own pastor (1260–1642 own parish), and Protestant services were also celebrated during the Reformation . After that the parish was vacant and was assigned to the Göttweig Abbey, later to the Inzersdorf parish. In 1784, Kuffern was assigned to the parish of Statzendorf and thus incorporated into the Herzogenburg monastery.
The church is architecturally interesting: it has a single-bay, high-Gothic choir with a 5/8 end , the nave was redesigned in Baroque style in the 17th century. The Gothic west tower has a square floor plan, which merges into an octagon on the top floor. The baroque helmet is covered with shingles. The core of the nave walls is probably Romanesque. The one- and two-part simple tracery windows in the choir are still in the original or renewed by Richard Jordan (Vienna) on the occasion of the regotization in 1896 and 1898 . The choir, the sacristy and the rib-vaulted side chapel to the south date from the 14th century, as do the four different chapter heads at the lower end of the ribs in the side chapel. The flat-roofed nave and the wooden west gallery date from the 19th century .
The neo-Gothic high altar (late 19th century) is designed as a winged altar . The central shrine relief shows the coronation of Mary , the two side wings with 6 panels each depicting the apostles. On the left choir wall there is a barred tabernacle from the Gothic period and a painting of St. Pancras, on the right of the high altar is a popular crucifix depicting the Mater Dolorosa. A small Gothic altar in the side chapel with a Gothic statue of the seated Mother of God with child was made around 1500. There is also a Baroque painting of St. Monika and St. Florian (3rd quarter of the 18th century), possibly works by Bartholomäus Altomonte in the side chapel, as well as a round baptismal font with a Romanesque round arch frieze .
Rottersdorf branch church
The church is first mentioned in the biography of St. Altmann († 1091). The church came from the Passau Abbey to the Göttweig Abbey (Stiftsbrief 1083). From 1112 to 1121 Rottersdorf was its own parish (patron Saint Silvester), from 1284 to 1784 a branch of Herzogenburg, after which it was incorporated into the Herzogenburg Abbey as part of the Statzendorf parish.
The small single-nave village church, possibly a former fortified church , has a Romanesque, almost square chancel, as well as a Romanesque nave. The compact, baroque west tower has a tent roof. The nave and choir have a simple baroque-style flat ceiling, the wooden west gallery with typical folk art processing features on the supports, struts and parapet boards dates from the first half of the 19th century.
The late baroque rococo high altar is adorned with an oil painting by Bartolomeo Altomonte from the 2nd half of the 18th century, it shows St. Matthew. Behind the high altar is a bricked-up Romanesque window. A baroque statue of St. Florian (1st half of the 18th century) and a picture of the saint (2nd half of the 18th century) are on the left wall of the nave. There are also late Gothic statues of Mary and John (around 1500) in the church. Some pictures on wood, including the death of Mary and the Mother of God with saints, are also in the church. An early baroque organ case, which is now used as a sacristy cabinet, shows St. Cecilia and St. Barbara on its painted double doors. The tower floor can only be entered from the outside. The door panels of the access door show the flagellation of Christ in the upper part, the crowning of thorns (17th century) below. The Stations of the Cross (prints) with empirical frames date from the beginning of the 20th century, as do the windows in neo-Gothic frames with low ornamental glazing.
Maria Misery "To Our Lady of Sorrows"
It is a small octagonal building that was built in 1812 and built in its current form in 1895. It is dedicated to the Sorrowful Mother Mary . The altar with a copy of the miraculous image of Maria Ellend at Petronell and two carved wooden figures, which were made around 1900, are the essential elements of the furnishings.
Web links
- Parish Church Statzendorf / Website of the Herzogenburg Abbey
- Website of the parish of Statzendorf
- Parish and rectory of Statzendorf / Website of the parish of Statzendorf ( Memento from May 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- Statzendorf - history of the place. Statzendorf, accessed on August 8, 2019 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Description of the organ disposition in the program booklet "Organ concert: 20 years of the Reil organ in the parish church of Statzendorf", June 2012
Coordinates: 48 ° 18 ′ 21.5 ″ N , 15 ° 38 ′ 31.1 ″ E