Parish church Arbesbach
The Roman Catholic parish church Arbesbach is located in the market town of Arbesbach in the Zwettl district in Lower Austria . The parish church consecrated to St. Aegydius belongs to the Deanery Zwettl of the diocese of St. Pölten . The church is a listed building .
history
The parish was founded by the Kuenringers around 1200. At the time of the first documentary mention of the Arbesbach parish in 1246, it already existed. Between 1567 and around 1630, the Lords of Starhemberg and their successors hired Protestant preachers. As a result of the Counter Reformation , Arbesbach was again Catholic from 1670.
After a fire in 1756 that destroyed large parts of Arbesbach as well as the church and the rectory, the church was rebuilt in his capacity as patron saint with the approval of the Passau consistory and with the support of Count Leopold von Dietrichstein . The construction was financed from the assets of the Altmelon branch church at the time .
The late baroque hall church was built over the old church between 1761 and 1772 . Georg Rueff from Hollabrunn was hired as a builder . The vault of the nave and the steeple built Kasparbauer Schmid. Adam Neylreich from Zwettl was responsible for the stone carving and Johann Georg Dreyhan from Marchegg was responsible for the roof structure . In order to be able to erect the new building, which was larger than the old church, a residential building had to be demolished, the school rebuilt and the cemetery wall relocated.
The church was consecrated on May 17, 1796 by Bishop Sigismund Anton von Hohenwart .
The right of patronage over the parish Arbesbach exercised as rulers among others the families of
- Dachsberger (1348–1423)
- Starhemberger (1423–1600) and the
- Dietrichsteiner (1674-1848).
The lordship was dissolved in 1848, but from 1878 the Altzinger family took over as owners of the Arbesbach forest estate under private law
- Right to have a say in structural and financial matters with
- Care for the financial conduct and the
- Right to have a say in the replacement of the parish parts of the original power of disposal over the parish. It was not until 1998 that these patronage rights were given up.
architecture
The parish church is a strictly symmetrical late baroque building made of quarry stones and bricks with a tower with an onion helmet built in front on the west side .
The interior of the church is a single-nave, high baroque hall with two square vaults and a narrower rectangular choir, closed on three sides, of the same height as the nave.
The glass windows were made by Arthur Brusenbauch in 1932/1935.
literature
- Austrian art topography, published by the Imperial and Royal Central Commission for Art and Historical Monuments, Volume VIII, The Monuments of the Political District of Zwettl in Lower Austria (without Zwettl Abbey), Part 1: Allentsteig Judicial District , commissioned by Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna , 1911.
- Parish church of St. Aegydius in Arbesbach. Christian art sites in Austria, No. 403, Verlag St. Peter, Salzburg, 2003.
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria north of the Danube 1990 . Arbesbach, parish church hl. Egydius, with floor plan, pp. 46–47.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 29 ′ 38.3 " N , 14 ° 57 ′ 22.6" E