Aschbach-Markt parish church
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The parish church of Aschbach-Markt stands on a churchyard plateau in the eastern center of the market town of Aschbach-Markt in the Amstetten district in Lower Austria . The Roman Catholic parish church , consecrated to St. Martin of Tours and incorporated into Seitenstetten Abbey, belongs to the Amstetten deanery of the St. Pölten diocese . The former fortified church is a listed building ( list entry ).
history
Mother church of an original parish from the 9th century ( mentioned in documents in 823 ).
At the beginning of the 11th century, a new church was built by the diocese of Passau on the site of a St. Martin's church . The church was officially transferred to the Seitenstetten Abbey in 1109 and 1116 and incorporated in 1517. The current late Gothic church was built in the 15th century and the first quarter of the 16th century. From 1897 to 1907 there was a regotization. The church was restored outside in 1992 and inside in 1995.
architecture
Late Gothic staggered hall church with a west tower and staggered choir with younger extensions in a churchyard with houses and walls. The cemetery is north of the church on sloping ground.
The exterior of the church shows a uniform, plastered church building with pointed arched windows with bezels under a gable roof with a continuous ridge. The nave has buttresses and neo-Gothic portal porches with profiled pointed arch portals on both sides, in the north with a heart window on the upper floor, in the south with a gable roof, gable, crabs and finials and the relief St. Martin by the sculptor Christian Moroder 1910. The asymmetrical staggered choir has a bricked-up apex window in the central main choir, the polygonal north choir has no buttresses and ends straight to the east with the main choir, the south choir closes at an angle to the main choir and shows a painted facet frieze under the eaves from the construction period . A late Gothic former sacristy extension under a monopitch roof with a neo-Gothic shoulder portal in a profiled pointed arch niche with a tympanum painting Orantin and on the east side with a arched roof gate with a stepping stone on a pair of corbels, including a new sacristy extension along the south choir slope, is moved to the south on the Südchorjoch. The late Gothic west tower with cornices and hatches with a baroque bell storey with ogival sound windows and retracted gables has a four-fold onion dome with a lantern from 1833, the tower shows a clock fresco on the south side, the tower ground floor is vaulted with ribs and open to the north and south with ogive arcades from which it has two seating niches first half of the 15th century.
The interior of the church shows itself as a four-bay, almost square staggered hall with side aisles of different heights, the wider central nave is open to the side aisles with beveled dividing arches on octagonal pillars. The staggered hall has ribbed vaults on consoles from the first half of the 15th century, in the north aisle as a ribbed network with belt rib services, in the higher and wider south aisles as a stitch cap and loop rib vaults from the first quarter of the 16th century with ribs on console pans or console services. On the western pair of pillars there is the gallery from the first quarter of the 16th century with coffered ribs and a coffered parapet over four pushed pointed arcades on octagonal pillars. The late Gothic triumphal arch is slightly drawn in and in the central nave is higher than the nave vault. The two-bay main choir with a three-sided closure has a ribbed network with quarter-circle cassettes with crossed approaches on rectangular heraldic consoles and in a polygon on round services with screwed bases. The side choirs are opened to the main choir by chamfered pointed arcades, the north choir is vaulted with a warped, fragmented ribbed star, the south choir, like the main choir, is vaulted with smaller quarter-circle coffers on crossed inlets and has integrated a former round staircase to the oratory to the main choir in the north-east corner.
The neo-Gothic glass painting was created by the Tyrolean glass painting establishment around 1900, in the main and south choir with depictions from the life of St. Benedict or Annunciation under tracery canopies, otherwise with slugs with colored ornamental borders around 1900.
Furnishing
High quality neo-Gothic altars by Clemens Raffeiner based on a design by Johann Maria Reiter. The high altar from 1897 is a pseudo winged altar, it has a crucifix with angel figures in the middle between the reliefs Coronation and Death of St. Benedict, as well as several statues to the side and in the burst. The folk altar is neo-baroque from 1987. The ambo was created from the former pulpit by Ferdinand Stuflesser in 1907 and shows the reliefs of Christ between the evangelists.
The wrought-iron window basket at the oratory to the main choir from 1753 is remarkably richly decorated with rocailles and a tree of life.
Gerhard Hradetzky built the organ in 1982 in a partly renewed case by Philipp Dorninger in 1757/1759 with two angel figures making music.
Tombstones
Outside
- south: Leopold Wimmer from the 18th century, Ambrosius Pruckmair 1755.
- to the west: the Mayrhofer family in 1888 and the Christ statue in Adikula.
- in the tower vestibule: Barbara Theuerkauf 1828 with a gabled inscription plaque with vanitas symbols.
Inside
- in the north choir: Johann Pazenhover and Matthias Moser 1695/1715.
- in the south choir: Maria Anna Gererstorfferin 1764 with a pilaster-framed inscription panel, Stephan Gererstorffer 1725 with coat of arms and reliefs of the deceased with crucifix.
Defense tower
The defense tower from 1540 northwest of the church to the rectory is a square quarry stone building with plaster renewed in 1992. It is two-storeyed under a half-hipped roof and, in addition to key notches, has small inward-opening ground floor windows with arched niches.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria south of the Danube 2003 . Aschbach market, parish church St. Martin with floor plan, churchyard with priestly crypt chapel, senior citizen's home, defense tower, cemetery, parsonage. Pp. 81-84.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 4 ′ 23.1 ″ N , 14 ° 45 ′ 14.9 ″ E