Parish Church Amstetten-St. Stephan
The parish church Amstetten-St. Stephan is in the municipality of Amstetten in Lower Austria . The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Stephanus belongs to the Amstetten deanery in the diocese of St. Pölten . The church is a listed building .
history
The parish church of St. Stephan stands on the foundations of an older church, the remains of which were found during the renovation in 1975. This encompassed the present-day central nave; its choir, sloping to the south, was smaller and was probably built in the second half of the 13th century. It already has a Gothic shape, but the main nave could have been of Romanesque origin. In the 14th century a chapel was added, which is the oldest surviving part of the current church, the front part of the north aisle, and was dedicated to the painful Mother of God. The next construction phase was marked by the new building of the nave including the north aisle.
The tower , which had previously stood free on the west side of the church, was only built in to the south when the second aisle was raised. In 1450 the decision was made to build it up in the north as well, which resulted in today's baptistery. From 1787 to 1789 this was raised and given a baroque helmet , while it did not get its current shape until 1882. Its height to the pommel of the cross is 43 meters.
architecture
The parish church of St. Stephan presents itself as a Gothic staggered church .
Furnishing
The high altar is the work of the South Tyrolean woodcarver Franz Schmalzl from Ortisei in Val Gardena , who designed it in 1889 and installed it in 1901. In its central shrine is the martyrdom of St. Stephen , on the left are the statues of Saints Peter and Laurentius , on the right of St. Florian and St. Paul . Above these figures there is a depiction of John the Baptist on the left and John the Evangelist on the right . Above the shrine is St. Joachim and on the right St. Anna , between which a late Gothic statue of St. Maria , originally from the chapel of the Dorner family from Stocka, is erected.
The side altars were created by Josef Kepplinger from Ottensheim in 1889. The one in the left aisle carries a statue of St. Mary of Lourdes . On the left is a figure of St. Johannes Nepomuk placed, on the right one of St. Rochus , while a statue of Christ has been placed at the top. On the right side altar a statue of the Sacred Heart forms the center, of which the saints Christophorus and Thomas on the left and St. Sebastian and St. Nicholas can be seen. The left side altar was consecrated in 1889, that of the right in 1891.
The baptistery houses a twelve-sided baptismal font that dates from the 15th century. Its neo-Gothic structure was also created by Josef Kepplinger in 1892, and bears a representation of the Sonntagberg mercy seat , the Holy Trinity . The half-reliefs show the biblical scenes of the baptism of Jesus depicted on the inside as well as Noah's ark and the salvation on the Red Sea, which are attached on the outside. The paintings on the inside of the wing are by Ludwig Hase from Linz and represent two biblical baptisms.
The organ was built in 1898 by Leopold Breinbauer into the baroque case of the old organ built by Lorenz Franz Richter from Freistadt in 1763 and has 20 stops on two manuals and a pedal .
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria south of the Danube 2003 . Amstetten, sacred buildings, parish church of St. Stephen, pp. 38-40.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Nikolaus Farfeleder: Amstetten - St. Stephan . Amstetten 1995. p. 6.
- ↑ a b c d e f g Web presence of the parish St. Stephan, section Our parish. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 25, 2014 ; Retrieved April 19, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b c d Nikolaus Farfeleder: Amstetten - St. Stephan . Amstetten 1995. p. 8ff.
Coordinates: 48 ° 7 '24.7 " N , 14 ° 52' 7.8" E