Aigen parish church near Raabs
The parish church of Aigen bei Raabs is raised in the northeast of Aigen bei Raabs in the market town of Ludweis-Aigen in the Waidhofen an der Thaya district in Lower Austria . The Roman Catholic parish church , consecrated to St. James the Elder , belongs to the dean's office in Waidhofen an der Thaya in the diocese of St. Pölten . The church is a listed building ( list entry ).
history
A parish was mentioned in a document around 1300. In a deed of donation from Albrecht von Puchheim in 1416, he gave the church a third-tenth as property, which the pastor already owned as a fief. In 1599 Andreas Freiherr Hofkirchen (Hofkircher) von Kollmitz had the old and dilapidated church torn down and the present one built over the family crypt of his family. In 1747 the church burned down. It could be restored, but all church documents were lost in the fire. Between 1682 and 1954 the church was incorporated into Altenburg Abbey.
architecture
The hall church, which is Gothic in essence and completely redesigned in the late renaissance, has a baroque west tower and is surrounded by a cemetery.
- Church exterior
The simple nave and the choir have mighty, Gothic buttresses divided by a cornice on profiled bases, pointed arched windows with remains of Gothic profiles, flat cloaks and pressed ends from around 1600. On the one-yoke , three-sided, closed choir raised above a crypt with a surrounding The base profile contains the remains of a coffin cornice. The entire building is covered by tile roofs. A sacristy is built on the north side of the choir and nave, the eastern part of which with buttresses and groin vaults was brought into its present form around 1600. The late baroque, four-storey west tower from around 1770/1780 is crowned by a detached bell helmet from 1835. It is structured by plaster strips, plaster framing and at the top by pilasters and has ox eyes and segment-arch sound windows .
- Church interior
The groin vaulted tower vestibule is accessible through a cantilever portal in the gable facade from the renovation of the church. Two hunched holy water fonts can be seen in it.
The church interior is characterized by a remarkable stucco decoration from around 1600. The architectural elements and lines are decorated with ornamented, ribbon-like borders. The geometric vault decoration has various rosette shapes. In the two-bay nave there is a double-framed mirror field held by webbing straps on the pressed needle cap barrel above wall pillars. The three- bay organ loft has stucco edging on the pressed column arcades and parapet fields as well as a stucco-cap barrel-shaped under-vaulting modified by stucco bands to form net vaults with rosette keystones. Between the round triumphal and apse arch is the groin-vaulted choir yoke with double eagles in a star-shaped anchored stucco snap ring. The choir has a three-eighth closing. A glass painting made around 1900 in the end of the choir depicts the apostle James .
The crypt of the Hofkirchen family, with a barrel vaulted cap and a remarkable late Renaissance tumba made of red marble, is located under the choir.
Facility
The high altar was built in 1898. It has a neo-baroque tabernacle structure between adoring angels.
A semicircular, brick pulpit from the beginning of the 17th century rises on Tuscan pillars . This has a psalm inscription on the curved course , some baroque ornaments and a renewed marbling . A parapet organ in baroque forms was built by Franz Metall in 1875 . Further furnishings include carved figures of Mary with child from Pfaffenschlag (late 17th / early 18th century), St. Johannes Nepomuk and Leonhard (around the middle of the 18th century), a crucifix in shapes from the 17th century in a version from the 19th century, a medieval, polygonal, bellied baptismal font made of granite with a jagged frieze, on a renewed base, pictures of the Way of the Cross by Jakob Preitschopf (1824), three church flags with oil paintings from the 19th century and a bell by Ferdinand Vötterlechner from 1755.
literature
- Friedrich Schweickhardt: Representation of the Archduchy of Austria under the Enns. Volume 4., Vienna 1840, p. 54ff.
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria north of the Danube 1990 . Aigen near Raabs, Ludweis-Aigen parish, parish church St. Jakob d. Ä. with floor plan, pp. 3–5.
Web links
- Entry on parish church Aigen in the Austria-Forum (chapter sacred buildings)
Coordinates: 48 ° 48 ′ 41.4 ″ N , 15 ° 29 ′ 30.2 ″ E