Parish Church Abtsdorf
The Roman Catholic parish church Abtsdorf is located southeast of the center of Abtsdorf in the municipality of Attersee am Attersee in the district of Vöcklabruck in Upper Austria . The church consecrated to St. Laurentius belongs to the Deanery Schörfling in the Diocese of Linz . The church and the cemetery are under monument protection .
Parish history
The parish was founded in 955 by the abbot of the Benedictine monastery Mondsee as a thank you for King Otto I's victory over the Hungarians on August 10, 955 in the battle of the Lechfeld . It was first mentioned in a document from Pope Innocent II from 1142.
Until the monastery was dissolved by Emperor Leopold II in 1791, the parish belonged to Mondsee Monastery .
Building history
The current building dates from the third quarter of the 15th century, nothing is known about a previous building. In the years 1699 to 1703 the interior was redesigned in Baroque style , from 1912 to 1914 the church was renovated and in 1960 the interior of the church was restored.
Building description
Outside
The late Gothic single-nave nave of the country church was built in the style of the Hausruck master builder Stephan Wultinger . It has a steep gable roof with a roof turret from 1838 on the west side. This has a square cross-section, wears an onion helmet and is crowned by a cross over a tower ball . The gable roof of the eastern choir is lower than that of the nave.
The nave has ogival tracery windows in deep niches. On the south side there is a walled-in, barbed Gothic portal with a stonemason's mark. A small vestibule with a hipped roof is built on the west side of the nave . This extension has a round-arched west portal, which forms today's entrance to the church. A sacristy and a side chapel are built on the south side and are covered with pent roofs.
The church and its annexes and the surrounding cemetery wall are covered with shingles .
Inside
The nave has three yokes , the stab caps above both longitudinal walls are shifted by half a yoke against each other, resulting in an unusually formed ribbed vault . In the eastern yoke of the southern nave wall is the access to the rib-vaulted side chapel.
A stone-sighted pointed arch forms the transition to the narrower choir of the same height. The one-bay choir is also closed by a ribbed vault and ends in an apse with an irregular five-eighth end . A small Gothic door with a whitewashed three-pass arch leads into the sacristy, which is closed off by a ridge vault.
The gallery with Tuscan columns dates from the baroque.
Furnishing
The interior of the church is shaped by the work of Meinrad Guggenbichler , from whose workshop the high altar , the two side altars and the pulpit come.
In the middle of the high altar from 1699 to 1701 is the statue of the church patron, on the left the statue of St. Wolfgang , on the right the statue of St. Nicholas .
In the center shrine of the left side altar there is a painting of Our Lady, flanked by the statues of St. Barbara and St. Katharina, in the middle shrine of the right side altar a painting of St. Joseph, flanked by the statues of St. Joachim and St. Anna, the parents of the Virgin Mary. Both altars were created between 1701 and 1703.
The pulpit from 1703 has small niches in the pulpit, in which there were baroque statuettes of Paul , John , Luke and Matthew , which were stolen in 1974 and replaced by copies.
Below the pulpit is a mighty Gothic baptismal font with a baroque lid.
The new people's altar is in the baroque style.
organ
In 1995 the Belgian master organ builder Patrick Collon built a new instrument.
Bells
There are two bells in the roof turret. One is dated 1442.
literature
- Dehio manual Upper Austria Verlag Schroll 1956, p. 14
- Walther Buchowiecki: "Stephan Wultinger and the Gothic Church Buildings in Upper Austria's Attergau", Rohrer Baden near Vienna, 1937
Web links
- Bells of the parish church Abtsdorf on YouTube accessed on October 1, 2014
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Abtsdorf parish church on salzkammergut.at accessed on September 30, 2014
Coordinates: 47 ° 54 ′ 34 " N , 13 ° 30 ′ 47" E