Parish Church of Ameis
The Roman Catholic parish church Ameis is located in Ameis in the market town of Staatz in the Mistelbach district in Lower Austria . In the 12th century the church was a vicariate of the parish Asparn an der Zaya . The parish church of St. Nikolaus belongs to the dean's office Laa-Gaubitsch in the vicariate Unter dem Manhartsberg of the Archdiocese of Vienna . Until September 1, 2016 she was part of the Ernstbrunn Dean's Office . The church is a listed building .
history
In the 12th century Ameis was a vicariate of Asparn an der Zaya . A parish was mentioned in the 14th century. The church was incorporated into the Minorites in 1624 . The Gothic church building was baroque and expanded in the 18th century by adding a south aisle east of the tower.
architecture
The church rises in the middle of a plaza-like extension of the main street of the village.
- Church exterior
The church building is a Gothic , Baroque-style building with a mighty southwest tower. The nave , the lower aisle and the choir are combined under a high pitched roof with a beaver tail covering . At the choir there are simply stepped buttresses with pent roofs . A heavily damaged Gothic relief with figural scenes and a coat of arms is walled in in the north-eastern buttress . The simple nave has arched windows with deep window walls. The massive southwest tower stands a little in front of the western front. It has rectangular, medieval slit windows . The bell projectile dates from the 16th century. It is equipped with chamfered, arched sound windows , an eight-sided, stone pyramid roof and a pointed attachment with rounded gussets as a transition to the polygon. The south aisle from the 18th century connects the tower and the single-storey sacristy from the 17th century. The portal vestibule with pilaster structure and curved gable in the west dates from the 18th century.
- Church interior
The three-bay long house has a needle cap barrel on set wall pillars . In the west the organ loft rises above a flat ceiling . The nave and choir are connected by a retracted, basket-arched triumphal arch . In the one-yoke choir with a five-eighth end there is a groin vault with stuccoed ribbons and stucco rosettes . The two-bay aisle with groined vaults is open to the central nave through two arched arcades .
Furnishing
The high altar was created towards the end of the 18th century. It has a columned aedicula with a volute top, lateral sectional figures of Saints Andrew and Matthew and an altarpiece of Saint Nicholas from the 19th century. The side altars are marked 1893. The furnishings also include a pulpit from the 18th century, a parapet organ by Josef Silberbauer from 1795 and an eight-sided, Gothic font. The rest of the furnishings are from the 19th century.
literature
- DEHIO Lower Austria north of the Danube . Berger, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-85028-395-3 , p. 43f.
Web links
- Entry on parish church Ameis in the Austria-Forum (chapter sacred buildings)
Coordinates: 48 ° 40 ′ 15.6 ″ N , 16 ° 32 ′ 11.3 ″ E