Parish Church Aspersdorf
The parish church of Aspersdorf to "St. George" stands south of the village of Aspersdorf on a hill. It is surrounded by a walled cemetery.
The church belongs to the Hollabrunn dean's office in the vicariate Unter dem Manhartsberg and is a listed building .
history
The parish belonged to the parish of Nappersdorf before it left it around 1220 and became an independent parish. The Kuenringische administrator Otto notarius de Aspindorf is named as the first pastor . The parish area included the places Aschendorf, Aspersdorf, Hart, Hetzmannsdorf, Kleinstetteldorf, Oberstinkenbrunn, Raffelsdorf (now Raffelhof ) and Wieselsfeld.
In the registers , which go back to 1636 with three short interruptions, it is recorded that the parish was temporarily unoccupied during the Reformation and was at times run according to the evangelical rite.
In 1654 Oberstinkenbrunn broke away from the parish of Aspersdorf. The other localities with the exception of Wieselsfeld were assigned to other parishes in the course of the Josefin Reform in 1782/84. The parish Aspersdorf includes the two places Aspersdorf with the parish church of St. Georg and Wieselsfeld with a chapel.
After 1718, the parish church of Aspersdorf emerged from the previous Gothic building, about which no details have been handed down. It was on September 25, 1730 consecrated . The plans for the church come from Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt . It is one of the group of Schönborn patronage parish churches that Friedrich Karl Reichsgraf von Schönborn-Buchheim had obliged to build.
Building description
Outside
The church is a late baroque hall church with a retracted choir and a north tower. In the west, the soaring, triaxial, gabled front side with sloping corners is structured by pilasters and entablature . Above the high portal with a cantilevered lintel on volute consoles is a circular blind window, above it a high gable attica with pilasters between lateral volute supports and a central, hexagonal blind window, crowned by a triangular gable with a cartouche of the Counts of Schönborn. Allegorical figures of Fides and Ecclesia sit on the gable legs ; in the area of the volute supports there are top figures of a cardinal and a bishop as well as the saints George and Florian .
The nave and the retracted choir with a three-eighth closure are combined by a frame structure and a surrounding cornice . The two-storey, architraved rectangular, segmented arch and round windows are partially blind windows. The nave and the choir have hipped roofs covered with clay tiles with small dormer windows . On the south side of the choir, the sacristy with a hipped roof with tile roofing and box-framed rectangular windows is attached.
The tower is built on the north side of the choir. The Gothic part of the tower with slit windows has been preserved up to the height of the church eaves. Above this is the baroque bell storey with sloping corners and pilasters and large, arched sound windows . Curved clock gables and the pyramid helmet are crowned by a tower ball with a cross.
Inside
The two- bay hall with a gallery and retracted choir is uniformly structured by belt arches , Ionic pilasters and a continuous, cranked entablature. The oblong yokes of the nave with square vaults with oval mirrors are separated from one another by wide wall pillars with bevelled corners and double pilaster templates.
In the narrow, barrel-vaulted gallery yoke, the drawn-in gallery with a parapet, which develops from the room beams, lies on a flat barrel on pillars. The retracted, essentially Gothic choir is connected to the nave by an architraved wicker triumphal arch .
The one-and-a-half-bay choir with a three-eighth apse vaulted by flat lancet barrels.
Architraved portals lead from the choir into the sacristy attached to the south, which is vaulted by a needle cap barrel. The tower ground floor, which is accessed through a portal in the north of the choir, has a smooth groined vault .
Furnishing
The three altars date from the construction period and are attributed to Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt.
The high altar, which stands in the apex of the choir, consists of an altarpiece in a curved picture frame with segmented gable roofing and crowning glory, which is freely attached and supported by floating angels at the side. The altar sheet is a painting by Johann Georg Schmidt from the year 1730 and shows the fight of St. George with the dragon. The altar table with a tabernacle structure from the middle of the 18th century stands freely below the altar painting. The tabernacle is flanked by wooden sculptures of Saints Sebastian and Rochus from around 1730.
On the side walls of the eastern nave yoke are the side altars, marbled wall altars with volute supports and round-gabled, curved volute canopies flanked by adoration angels. The altar leaves are paintings by Johann Baptist Byß and depict Maria Immaculata on the left side altar and St. John Nepomuk on the right side altar.
Between the right side altar and the step to the choir is the sandstone baptismal font, a hunched basin with a bulged foot from the first half of the 18th century.
The pulpit from 1730 has a round basket on a high spout with rococo relief cartouches, which were probably added in the middle of the 18th century and depict the transfiguration of the Lord and parables of the sower and the vineyard . There is a figure of St. Paul on the sound cover with canopy volutes .
The furnishings are completed by a sculpture of St. Florian from the second half of the 19th century, pictures of the Holy Family and the Holy Trinity from the middle of the 19th century and the Stations of the Cross from the middle / third quarter of the 19th century.
A “holy grave” in Art Nouveau style with artful, colorful glass beadwork from an Olomouc glass factory is located in the tower chamber on the north side of the choir.
In the sacristy there is a sacristy cabinet from around 1730 with an ornamental top and a pilaster structure.
organ
The work of the organ with a rococo prospectus and parapet positive was created in 1925 by Franz Capek . It needs renovation and is currently (2014) being replaced by an electronic organ.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Lower Austria - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. ( Memento of May 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) . Federal Monuments Office , as of June 26, 2015 (PDF).
- ↑ a b Virtual church tour on the parish website ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on October 21, 2014
- ↑ a b c Parish Aspersdorf on the website "Augustiner in Austria" ( Memento of the original from October 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on October 21, 2014
- ↑ a b “Dehio Handbook. The art monuments of Austria. Lower Austria north of the Danube. ” Edited by Evelyn Benesch, Bernd Euler-Rolle u. a. Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-7031-0652-2 , p. 54
- ↑ “Dehio Handbook.” P. 55
Coordinates: 48 ° 35 ′ 6.8 ″ N , 16 ° 5 ′ 47.4 ″ E