Alland Parish Church
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The parish church Alland stands on the eastern outskirts in a gusset between Schwechat and Allander Bach in the municipality of Alland in the Baden district in Lower Austria . The Roman Catholic parish church consecrated to Saints George and Margareta - incorporated into the Heiligenkreuz Abbey - belongs to the Heiligenkreuz dean's office in the vicariate Unter dem Wienerwald of the Archdiocese of Vienna . The church and the former cemetery are under monument protection ( list entry ).
history
In 1115 a church was mentioned in a document. The church of the parish of the Vienna Woods is probably older than the Heiligenkreuz Abbey (1133). In 1253 the patronage and presentation rights went to the Heiligenkreuz Abbey, the church was incorporated into the Abbey in 1380.
Originally, a castle church with a high entrance to a high medieval castle, raised on the rock of the Königsberg in the north above the parish church is assumed. There are few remains of a medieval tower from the beginning of the 12th century. The Romanesque hall church is believed to be around the second quarter of the 13th century. This was followed by the construction of an early Gothic north aisle and a west tower. In the 14th century a chapel was added to the southeast. Around 1380, the north nave was vaulted and the choir was rebuilt. In the second half of the 15th century, the central nave was also vaulted. Around 1500 the second, south aisle with the south portal was added. The church was damaged in the Turkish Wars of 1529 and 1683. Around 1800, with the master builder Philipp Schlucker, the new construction of the upper tower floors was carried out from the eaves height of the central nave in the form of a graceful tower top, as well as the baroque design of the facade. In 1945 the two-bay central nave and the southern nave collapsed. The tower was damaged. By 1954 it was rebuilt with a new tower tower in baroque forms. The altered interior of the nave as a pseudo-basilica, which is not recognizable on the exterior - with exposure through skylights - was made according to plans by the architect Josef Vytiska . The interior was restored in 1983 and the exterior was restored in 1985.
architecture
The church, which is essentially Romanesque, was extended with Gothic aisles. The baroque exterior building was rebuilt in a different form after destruction (1945).
In the central nave is a fragment of a wall painting from the second third of the 14th century: two tower blowers in front of a city view. The modern wall paintings: the Lord's Supper in the choir, a Way of the Cross in the central nave, a sgraffito decoration in the baptistery and fields with Christian symbols were created by the artist Karl Steiner (1947/1948).
Furnishing
The baroque interior was destroyed in 1945. Today's simple popular altar and tabernacle were created around 1947. In the choir is a monumental hanging crucifix with a body from the second half of the 17th century.
In the south aisle there is a crucifix with a body from the 18th century and a statue of the Madonna from the end of the 18th century.
The polygonal font is late Gothic.
The organ was built by Gregor Hradetzky (1966). Friedrich Michael Schönfeld cast a bell in 1675.
Funerary monuments
- Romanesque grave slab, closing trapezoidal at the top, around the second quarter of the 13th century, with relief, cross staff with lily-shaped sprouting cross arms on a cloverleaf hill, inside the hill a four-legged animal lying on its back.
- Priest's grave plate with Gothic inscription, presumably to Pastor Johannes Fürstenau, died 1381, presumably builder of the Gothic choir.
- Grave slab with column framing, for Anna Maria Seeleuthnerin 1745.
- Marble top with a curved cornice with a relief depicting the Resurrection from the second half of the 18th century.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria south of the Danube 2003 . Alland, Parish Church of St. Georg and Margareta, with floor plan, rectory, pp. 21–23.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 3 ′ 30.8 " N , 16 ° 4 ′ 51" E