Market chapel Emmersdorf
The market chapel Emmersdorf towers over the houses in the valley floor on the Danube in the market town of Emmersdorf an der Donau in the Melk district in Lower Austria . The chapel dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene belongs to the market town. The chapel is a listed building .
history
The chapel was donated in 1516 by Paul Frey von Friesing, resident in Gerersdorf near St. Pölten, who often stayed in Emmersdorf on summer vacation in house at No. 6, which was built in a similar style to the chapel.
architecture
The chapel has a basement as a single-pillar room, which is flooded when the Danube floods, but thus protects the actual elevated chapel from the effects of flooding. The single support room with a round vault on a central column was rediscovered during the exterior restoration in 1997. The northern street front is staggered several times and has a staircase and a loggia-like vestibule with a richly barbed late Gothic pointed arch portal. Above the staircase, the facade shows a fresco of Mary and Child from the first half of the 17th century.
The almost square chapel room has a late Gothic ribbed vault on consoles and a protruding organ gallery on a massive ribbed vault. The chapel room is decorated with whitewashed frescoes, next to the left side altar the depiction of a knight was uncovered by a restorer and shows the year 1537.
Furnishing
The high altar shows the altarpiece Maria Annunciation by Franz Hölzl (1896) and in the upper image the Coronation and above the figure St. Michael with the soul scales and carries the side statues Peter and Paul from 1674 from the workshop of Matthias Schwanthaler . To the left of the high altar is a picture of St. Maria Magdalena and on the right a picture of St. Apollonia who has just had a tooth extracted. The right side altar shows the image of St. Leopold with a view of Melk Abbey , the left side altar shows the picture of St. Florian with a view of Emmerdorf around 1670.
Noteworthy is the 17th century carrying organ, walled up on the gallery before the restoration, now restored with a carrying table, standing next to the high altar.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria north of the Danube 1990 . Emmersdorf an der Donau, Chapel St. Maria Magdalena, p. 187.
- Karl Schwarz, Josef Kaiserlehner, Erna Schwarz (text), Alois Neulinger (photos): Church leader Emmersdorf. Parish Emmersdorf an der Donau 2001, Marktkapelle (Magdalenen- or Liebfrauenkapelle), pp. 21–22.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gerald Götsch: In the Magdalenenkapelle in Emmersdorf, a 17th century organ was consecrated last week. Lower Austria District Melk, November 26, 2013
Coordinates: 48 ° 14 ′ 28.9 ″ N , 15 ° 20 ′ 13.7 ″ E