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The Roman Catholic Martinskirche Deutsch Schützen is the former parish church in the village of Deutsch Schützen in the municipality of Deutsch Schützen-Eisenberg ( Croatian : " Livio-Čjeka ", Hungarian : " Németlövő-Csejke ") in the Oberwart district in Burgenland . It is consecrated to Saint Martin and belongs to the parish church Deutsch Schützen in the deanery of Güssing in the diocese of Eisenstadt . The church is a listed building .
history
During excavations in 1970/71, the foundations of the Romanesque church and a Roman cemetery were uncovered. Two double capitals with plastic decorations have been preserved from the Romanesque church . A man's head is kept in the rectory of today's church and a lion's head in the Erdödy burial chapel in Kohfidisch . Both come from the sound windows of a Romanesque tower from around 1200. A bell from the first half of the 13th century is now in the Pfundner Collection in Vienna .
The Martinskirche is a remaining building about 800 meters outside of today's town center in the area of the former town center of St. Martin. It was built around 1400 and redesigned in Baroque style in 1751 . It was a parish church until 1938. After that, the Church of the Names of Mary in the town center took over this function. After the roof and west tower collapsed in 1945, St. Martin's Church was partially demolished.
In March 1945 about 850 Jewish slave laborers , almost all of Hungarian origin, were forced to flee from the Red Army in the direction of the Mauthausen concentration camp . On March 29, 1945, the massacre of Deutsch Schützen took place . After the grave was rediscovered in 1995, the dead were buried at the site of the find on September 13, according to halachic regulations by Chief Rabbi Paul Chaim Eisenberg . The Austrian ambassador to Israel Herbert Kröll donated a memorial plaque that was attached to the Martinskirche, the former assembly point for Jews.
architecture
The one-bay Gothic choir and the apse with a five-eighth end and buttresses are still preserved from the church. The vault is made of simply grooved ribs that rest on service bundles and slim round services. There is a sacrament niche . In the southern inner wall there is a tombstone of Georg Debreczenyi († 1593).
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Burgenland 1976 . German Shooter, Former Catholic parish church hl. Martin, pp. 54-55.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 9 '52.1 " N , 16 ° 26' 23.1" E