Parish church of Aggsbach-Dorf

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Parish Church of the Assumption in Aggsbach-Dorf

As a former monastery church, the parish church of Aggsbach-Dorf is structurally connected to the Aggsbach Charterhouse in Aggsbach-Dorf in the market town of Schönbühel-Aggsbach in the Melk district in Lower Austria . The Roman Catholic parish church , consecrated on the feast of the Assumption of Mary , belongs to the Göttweig deanery in the diocese of St. Pölten . The church is a listed building ( list entry ).

history

Construction of the former Carthusian Church began around 1373 and was completed before 1380 and consecrated in 1392. In 1782/1784 the monastery church became a parish church. A tower was added to the north of the choir for the parish church in 1795. From 1967 the church was restored.

architecture

Church exterior

The long and narrow, uniform, north-facing church building has a five-eighth end in the width of the nave and adjoins a steep rock face to the west. The church has slender two-part, pointed-arched tracery windows with square arches and circles with quatrefoils, in the narrow south gable wall a three-part tracery window with tilted square arches with quatrefoils and a central pointed keel arch.

Church interior

The extremely long, stretched, narrow and highly proportioned hall space without indentation between the nave and the choir has four bays in the nave and a choir bay with a five-eighth end. The nave bays have cross-ribbed vaults on doubly hollowed services on lobed drains, pear ribs on leaf consoles and three sculptured keystones depicting a phoenix, a pelican with a boy, a lion with a boy (physiologos).

Furnishing

The original significant group of six altars was largely transferred to the Herzogenburg Abbey , including the remarkable altar by Jörg Breu the Elder from 1501.

Friedrich Obmann created the high altar as a free-standing shrine altar in 1911 based on a design by Dagobert Peche .

literature

  • Alfred Fischeneder-Meiseneder: The architecture of the Gothic in the east of Austria. Studies of sacred buildings in the 14th and 15th centuries with a focus on the period around 1400 . Diss. University of Vienna 2016, pp. 81–86.
  • The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria south of the Danube 2003 . Aggsbach-Dorf, Parish Church Mariae Himmelfahrt, pp. 8–9.

Web links

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Coordinates: 48 ° 17 ′ 39.1 ″  N , 15 ° 25 ′ 27.9 ″  E