Laxenburg window

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Laxenburg window in the right aisle, south wall

The Laxenburg window with works of art from the beginning of the Gothic to the Renaissance is located in the right aisle of the Steyr parish church . The individual parts came from Laxenburg Castle to the parish church in 1884 , and have been grouped together in a window since 1955.

description

Leopold VI., Resurrected Christ, Margravine Agnes

At the very top in the first row under the tracery are fragments from a crucifixion group from around 1500: on the left the head of Mary and on the right of John , in the middle a disk with a standing saint (around 1325). In the second row there are pictures of a Cistercian and a Benedictine monk , framed by vines, as well as borders on the left and right outside (these run up to the fourth row) and architectural depictions. The third row contains panes with a martyr and then the Saints Antonius and Bernhard von Clairvaux , framed by representations of architecture, and on the right a panel with Saint Dorothea . The fourth row shows St. Mary and St. Anna (around 1325) and in the middle a fragment of the Ascension of Christ . The fifth and sixth rows are full-length depictions, most of which were created around 1300: Leopold VI. with the inscription Dux Leupoldus and a model of a church at his feet, the Resurrection of Christ and Margravine Agnes with the inscription MFN Agnes. In the seventh and last row the pictures of St. Nicholas , the teaching Christ and St. Bernard, all from the beginning of the 14th century.

history

The depictions of Duke Leopold, the risen Christ and Margravine Agnes already show the early Gothic style with fine lines on the garment hems. The image of the margravine is partially modernized (lower half, facial features, parts of the architecture). In 1884 it was still described as fragmented. These three pictures probably originally come from Lower Austria , so the model of the church at Leopold's feet is a possible representation of the Lilienfeld collegiate church . The Cistercian and Benedictine monks (both nimbed ) in the second row suggest that they come from Heiligenkreuz .

Around 1800, by order of Emperor Franz II, numerous glass paintings had to be handed over to the parish church to furnish the pleasure palace in Laxenburg. Later discs were again distributed back to the “donors” - obviously at random. The three representations of Leopold, the risen Christ and the Margravine Agnes were in the private chapel of Duke Leopold VI. in Klosterneuburg , the Capella speciosa . After it was demolished in 1799, they were only brought to Laxenburg and in 1884 as an imperial donation to the parish church. In the same year they were presented as part of the "Electrical Exhibition". The current composition as the "Laxenburg Window" dates from 1955 and was restored in 1981.

Historical recordings of the discs

  • Leopold VI. and the fragmented picture of Margravine Agnes

  • Resurrected Christ

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Steyr parish church, building history and art history , chapter: The medieval glass pictures. P. 109 ff. (Christina Seidl)
  2. ↑ Communications of the kk Centralcommission, X. Jg., 1884, p. CLXXII.
  3. ^ Rudolf Koch: Historical Art. A Gothic architectural monument in Austria - the parish church in Steyr Published in: Zeitschrift Oberösterreich 29th Jg., 4/1979, pp. 45–54.
  4. ↑ Stadtpfarrkirche Steyr , legend to no. 4 in the picture part of the chapter The medieval glass pictures

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