Catholic parish church Lutzmannsburg

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Lutzmannsburg parish church
The interior of the church

The Roman Catholic parish church Lutzmannsburg stands on the Kirchberg in the middle of the cemetery in the village of Lutzmannsburg ( Croatian Lucman , Hungarian Locsmánd ) in the district of Oberpullendorf in Burgenland . It is consecrated to St. Vitus and belongs to the Großwarasdorf deanery .

history

At the site of the church there was a county castle, a fortification with ramparts and moats. Since 1955 the foundations of the castle have been excavated with paved floors from the 12th and 13th centuries. The church was founded before 1272 and rebuilt after the Reformation in 1674. The core of the building dates from the Middle Ages and was redesigned in Baroque style in 1673 . The church was restored in 1974/75.

architecture

The church has a retracted polygonal choir from the 15th century and a western tower with a stone pyramid spire. The rectangular nave is compact. There are three baroque buttresses on each of the long sides . At the choir are single-step buttresses, Gothic pointed arch windows with noses in the grooved reveals . The Gothic sacristy with small pointed arched windows adjoins the north side of the choir bay . Loopholes-like windows are let into the four-storey tower . The tower painting from the 17th and 18th centuries was reconstructed in 1974. A stone crucifix with an ex-voto inscription from 1779 hangs on the west wall .

The two bays of the nave are barrel vaulted with rounded stitch caps . The windows are set in deep, arched niches. A wide triumphal arch separates the nave from the choir bay. This has a 5/8 finish and is cross ribbed . The vault rests on conical consoles . The keystones are round. The Gothic door to the sacristy with noses hangs in a double-grooved frame with a coat of arms stone .

Furnishing

The high altar is neo-Gothic . The side altars date from the middle of the 18th century. They are columned altars with a top and set figures. On the left is a Madonna and Child between Saint Barbara and Saint Catherine . On the right altar is a figure of St. John Nepomuk . This is flanked by St. Joachim and St. Isidore .

The pulpit was created in the middle of the 18th century. On the basket there is a relief of the "Appearance of Christ" and the female seated figures of love and hope . At the sounding board is the third sitting figure "faith". On the north wall is a crucifix from the 18th century, on the south wall a tombstone from 1723.

The bell in the tower was cast by Andreas Schreiber in Graz in 1647 .

The cemetery portal of the surrounding cemetery has battlements.

Web links

Commons : Saint Vitus Church (Lutzmannsburg)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

literature

Coordinates: 47 ° 27 '25.4 "  N , 16 ° 38' 22.5"  E