Parish Church Albrechtsberg
The Albrechtsberg parish church stands within the defensive walls of Albrechtsberg Castle in the market town of Albrechtsberg an der Große Krems in the Krems-Land district in Lower Austria . The the feast of the Assumption , dedicated Roman Catholic parish church belongs to the dean's office pointed to the diocese of St. Poelten . The church is a listed building ( list entry ).
history
The church is mentioned in 1236 as the vicariate of Meisling. It is probably a foundation of the Lords of Anschau-Starhemberg. Around 1380 it was a feudal parish under the Lords of Neidegg. The tower of the originally Gothic church was renewed in 1715. From 1765 to 1770 there was a complete baroque cladding and the razing of the Gothic building. Matthias Munggenast is named as the builder .
Exterior
The nave shows high and smooth fronts with lunette windows . The choir with a basket-shaped triumphal arch is slightly drawn in. in the east there is a former crypt exit , marked 1825, in the south the sacristy and an onion dome with sloping retaining walls . Outside there are inscription panels by Michael Rosenkranz (1793) and Elisabeth von Peuckham zu Albrechtsberg (1591) as well as the gravestone of Erasmus von Peuckham with a monumental relief of a kneeling knight (1541), the gravestone of the priest Thaman Hold with a relief chalice ( 1462), a gray plate with an incised cross on a triangular base (probably 14th century) and a weathered stone with two coat of arms reliefs .
Interior
The nave is a three- bay hall with square vaults that rest on pilaster-structured , fluted wall pillars with cranked beams. A two-storey gallery with groin vaults on two pillars rises in the west yoke. The upper floor is closed and structured by plastered fields.
In the south there is a two-bay, late Gothic chapel with a ribbed vault on consoles with heraldic keystones. In the chapel there is a stained glass painting of St. Anthony and a baroque candlestick.
The arched triumphal arch is slightly drawn in. The one-bay choir has a square vault with a basket-arch apse. The sacristy is vaulted with a hanging dome.
The wall and ceiling paintings were created by Josef Fürst in 1798, including the depiction of the birth of Christ , the Annunciation , the Adoration of the Holy of Holies, two angels making music above the gallery and two medallions with the birth and Ascension of Mary on the side in the choir.
Furnishing
The altars and pulpit were created by Antonio Carcon in 1799. The pulpit and side altars were restored in 1987.
The high altar with a double columned retable set in the apse conche has a massive volute extension and gold-plated rocaille and plait decoration. In the middle, under a canopy, there is a late Gothic Maria with child from the second half of the 15th century, next to it are statues of Saints Peter and Paul and in the extract a picture with the Holy Trinity in a glory of rays . The altar has a magnificent tabernacle , adoring angels on the side volutes, baroque candlesticks and reliquary stands.
Both side altars have a pilaster-structured retable with free-standing columns and entablature as well as curved extensions. On the left side altar there are statues of Saints Florian, Sebastian and Rochus, on the tabernacle a Infant Jesus from Prague and baroque reliquary containers with candlesticks; right statues of a male saint with a staff and Charles Borromeo as well as baroque candlesticks.
The pulpit basket has garlands and a relief of the baptism of Christ. Two putti figures can be seen on volutes; on the mighty sound cover an allegorical statue with attributes of the Christian virtues .
The organ was renewed in 1985. The late baroque case from 1782 with acanthus leaf decoration and putti was preserved.
One of the oldest works of art in the church is the figure group Anna selbdritt from around 1520. A nativity scene with small wax figures and a lecture crucifix come from the 19th century; Communion bars, benches, choir stalls and confessional from the second half of the 18th century. Also in the second half of the 18th century the baptismal font was created, which shows a small group of baptisms of Christ on the lid .
In the southern window of the sacristy there is a stained glass window made around 1370/1380 in medieval but heavily patched up lead.
Further furnishings include a late Gothic offering box, a tombstone from 1695 with three coats of arms and putti in delicate relief, and an inscription plate from 1635.
The church has two bells . One was cast in 1594, the second by Ferdinand Drackh in 1737.
literature
- DEHIO Lower Austria north of the Danube . Berger, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-85028-395-3 , p. 7.
Web links
- Entry on the parish church of Albrechtsberg in the Austria Forum (chapter sacred buildings)
Individual evidence
- ^ Eva Frodl-Kraft (Ed.): The medieval glass paintings in Lower Austria: Albrechtsberg to Klosterneuburg . Böhlau Verlag Vienna, 1972, chapter Albrechtsberg, parish church Maria Himmelfahrt
Coordinates: 48 ° 27 '49.1 " N , 15 ° 22' 8.7" E