Parish church Asparn an der Zaya
The parish church of Asparn an der Zaya is located on Schloßplatz in Asparn an der Zaya in the market town of Asparn an der Zaya in Lower Austria . The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Pankratius 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 and is structurally connected to Asparn Castle in the west and to the former Minorite monastery in the east via a brick corridor .
history
Around 1150 a parish was mentioned. From 1306 to 1412 the Gothic church was owned by Altenburg Abbey . In the 15th century the church fell into disrepair. From 1626 the church was rebuilt and rebuilt and newly vaulted and baroque and in 1629 it was officially incorporated into the Minorite monastery. In 1764 a sacristy was added to the east of the choir. 1966 was a restoration.
architecture
The walls of the nave and the western choir bays and the ground floor of the basement of the tower have been preserved from the Gothic church. The nave and the retracted choir and the sacristy adjoining it to the east stand under a uniform hipped roof. The facades are simple with round arched and segmented arched windows. The main portal in the south front of the nave has a baroque porch from the 18th century. There is a sloping Gothic buttress in the south wall of the choir. On the north side of the choir there are buttresses with a monopitch roof and a sloping retaining wall from the 17th century. The three-storey tower on the south wall of the choir has rectangular windows on the ground floor with a crossed frame and above a coat of arms of Breuner, Harach and Mollart in a scroll frame with the year 1626. The year 1908 is on the second floor 1956. In the south of the nave there is a baroque extension of the chapel St. Antonius from 1653. In the north of the nave is the baroque extension of the chapel St. Francis, formerly the chapel of St. Anna, from 1752. To the east from the sacristy there is a single-storey connecting corridor built in 1793 over arcades under a gable roof to the former Minorite monastery.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria north of the Danube 1990 . Asparn an der Zaya, parish church St. Pankratius, pp. 50-52.
Coordinates: 48 ° 35 ′ 21.1 ″ N , 16 ° 29 ′ 29.9 ″ E