Parish and pilgrimage church Unterfrauenhaid
The parish and pilgrimage church Unterfrauenhaid is located at the northern end of the village in the market town of Unterfrauenhaid in Burgenland . The pilgrimage church of the Assumption is part of the Deutschkreutz deanery in the Eisenstadt diocese . The parish church is a listed building .
history
A place of pilgrimage was mentioned in documents in 1222. The place was destroyed by the Turks in 1529 and then repopulated with Croatians . The Gothic church building was mentioned in a document in 1456. The church was redesigned in baroque style two centuries later (1660) .
architecture
The church building within a reinforced cemetery wall with a kink between the nave and the choir is probably based on Romanesque foundations. The entrance is formed by a pointed arched portal in the multi-storey western tower crowned by a bulging onion dome with a lantern . The outer walls of the nave and the apse are supported by stepped buttresses . The south portal with a split gable from the 17th century has a wooden figure of the 'Immaculate Conception' ( Immaculata ) from the 18th century in a niche . Baroque side chapels were built on both sides . There are buttresses on the retracted choir with a 5/8 end . The Gothic apse windows are walled up. On the north side of the choir is the sacristy with an oratory .
The tower vestibule has a late Gothic star rib vault . The four-bay nave under a barrel vault has short lancet caps and a gallery above a groin vault , the gallery parapet rests on two Tuscan columns . Parts of the Gothic profile have been preserved on the wide, round-arched triumphal arch to the choir . The net vault of the choir area rests on round services without capital .
There are murals painted in the context of the life of Mary by Albrecht Durer by the painter J. Hofler (1947).
Furnishing
The high altar has a free-standing tabernacle with a miraculous image of St. Mary based on the model of the Black Madonna of Czenstochau with the year 1629. The pulpit from 1760 with rococo decor bears the three female allegories of the Christian cardinal virtues ' faith ' on the sound cover ,' Love 'and' hope '. The font with angel head reliefs on the bowl dates from the 17th century. In the left side chapel there is an oil painting depicting the ' Assumption of Mary ' by the painter Franz Sigrist from 1800. There is also a bell by Hanns Dinckhelmaier from Vienna from 1592, which is now part of the Pfundner Collection in Vienna .
graveyard
The church is surrounded by a cemetery , the defensive wall of which shows loopholes in the shape of a keyhole. There is also a plaque commemorating Franz Liszt's baptism in 1811 and a cemetery cross with a stone pietà from the 19th century.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria . Dehio Burgenland 1976 . Unterfrauenhaid. Catholic parish and pilgrimage church Mariae Himmelfahrt. Pp. 306-307.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ The Black Madonna by Unterfrauenhaid ORF Burgenland, October 25, 2008
Coordinates: 47 ° 34 ′ 29.9 " N , 16 ° 30 ′ 15.8" E