Altenmarkt parish church in Yspertal
The parish church Altenmarkt im Yspertal is located in Altenmarkt in the market town of Yspertal in the Melk district in Lower Austria . The Roman Catholic parish church consecrated to St. Mary Magdalene belongs to the deanery Maria Taferl in the diocese of St. Pölten . The church and the cemetery are under monument protection ( list entry ).
history
Altenmarkt was mentioned in documents as the market place in 1209 and 1282. A parish was accepted in the 13th century, and in 1348 a parish was mentioned. There were fires in the 17th century and there was also a fire in 1743. In 1738 there was probably a Baroque transformation or in 1743/1744 probably with Leopold Wißgrill . The church was restored in 1961/1964 and in 1961 the quarry stone masonry of the old building core with window openings was exposed on the south-facing nave .
architecture
The parish church is raised in the west of the market square and is surrounded by a cemetery. The baroque church has a late Romanesque / early Gothic nave, a late Gothic choir and a late Baroque west tower.
- Church exterior
The nave has a cranked eaves above mighty baroque buttresses with baroque arched windows under a gable roof . The north aisle - the former Sebastian chapel - with baroque arched windows and a pent roof was expanded in the 20th century with additions. The choir has a corner cuboid and is broken up by round-arched, modified, Gothic pointed-arch windows, on which the remains of the former fish-bubble tracery were partially exposed. The presented two-storey west tower with pilaster structure , arched windows and a western rectangular portal was mentioned in a document in 1767/1768 and is crowned with clock gables with a steep onion helmet. The two-storey sacristy addition to the south of the choir in the basement probably dates back to 1900, while the upper storey with a small bell tower was built in the third quarter of the 20th century.
- Church interior
The three-bay nave with a lower north aisle is vaulted in the main nave by a barrel vault with stitch caps from 1743/1744 on base arches over pilasters and has a richly profiled, cranked cornice. The baroque west gallery above a pressed barrel vault with deep stitch caps has a heavily bulged parapet structured by pilasters with an attached wooden balustrade. In the north there are round-arched openings to the narrow aisle. The western yoke was transformed into a baptistery in the third quarter of the 20th century . The aisle choir, which was modified at the same time, is opened in two arched arcades to the main choir. Its arched windows are flanked by two fragments of Romanesque columns with capitals.
The retracted round arched triumphal arch is encircled by the mantelpiece of the nave. The two-bay choir, drawn in to the north, with a noticeable bend in the axis and a Baroque apse, is vaulted with a six-part star rib vault on high-seated polygonal consoles from the second half of the 15th century with two coats of arms in relief. The former five-eighth closure was redesigned into a baroque round apse. In the south of the choir - covered by a large canvas picture - is a circular coat of arms fresco of the Hoyos with the year 1659.
The stained glass in the apse with the legend of St. Maria Magdalena created Carl Geyling's Heirs (1963). In the windows of the nave and aisle exposed in 1961, there are copies of Gothic glass windows or reconstructions using old parts with the depiction of Christ on the Mount of Olives after the original in the Leechkirche in Graz around 1310/1315, Adoration of the Kings , hll. Michael and Georg. In the north of the baptistery St. Maria Magdalena after a fragment of the glazing destroyed in 1944, inscribed with Thet 1959 in the west of the aisle Seven Pains and in the aisle choir Christ with the crown of thorns .
Furnishing
The former high altar was removed in 1964. The free-standing tabernacle in tempietto form from the third quarter of the 18th century has been preserved. The two side altars with flat, richly ornamented wall structures from 1770/1780 carry statues, on the left Maria in a halo, flanked by Antonius of Padua and Antonius Eremita, on the right in front of a back wall with drapery and under a canopy Sebastian, flanked by Florian and Johannes Nepomuk, in the excerpt Putti with the tools of passion, all from 1775/1780 and painted white. The pulpit from 1779 shows four putti with flanking corner pilasters on the basket, the sound cover is crowned by a putto with a sword and the tablets of the law.
A console statue in the choir shows Christ at the scourge column from the third quarter of the 18th century. A console statue under canopies in the nave shows Anna Maria teaching from the second quarter of the 18th century and Joseph with the baby Jesus from the third quarter of the 18th century.
The organ was built by Leopold Breinbauer (1903).
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria north of the Danube 1990 . Cape. Altenmarkt, municipality of Ypsertal, parish church of St. Maria Magdalena, exterior, with floor plan, interior, glass painting, furnishings, canvas paintings, cemetery, parsonage, p. 32–34.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 16 '55.2 " N , 15 ° 3' 52.7" E