Parish church Aurolzmünster
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The parish church of Aurolzmünster is located in the market town of Aurolzmünster in Upper Austria . The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Mauritius belongs to the deanery of Ried im Innkreis in the diocese of Linz . The church is a listed building .
history
The parish church goes back to the Benedictine monastery founded by Abbot Urolf von Niederaltaich around 800, which was subordinate to the Niederaltaich patron Mauritius. The first documentary mention comes from 831. After war destruction in Romanesque times, the church was rebuilt.
The oldest structure comes from the first half of the 15th century. The church tower initially had a Gothic pointed roof. The bells of the first documented peal were cast in Augsburg in 1616. In 1672 a fire caused devastating damage to the castle and the church. First a simple octagonal tower spire was erected. It was not until 1718 that the church got a new onion-domed helmet with the current appearance.
The interior of the church was renovated for the first time in 1828/1829 and 1901. The wooden clapboard covering of the church roof was replaced by a copper covering in 1928. The last exterior restoration took place in 1956. The church roof was re-covered with Eternit in 1981. In 2011 the roof and the vault were secured with steel girders. In 2012 the floor and the lighting were renovated. Furthermore, the columns and frescoes were restored and the valuable stained glass windows were reinforced. The last interior renovation for the time being was completed in 2015.
architecture
The late Gothic single-nave four-bay nave has a Gothic baroque revised vault and side chapels on the north side. The late Gothic west portal has a barbed garment. The portal doors in the north, west and south show Gothic fittings. The curved west gallery stands on three pillars. The three-bay choir, built after the nave, is higher than the nave and moved to the north and has a three-eighth end and a lancet barrel vault. The tower in the southern choir corner has beveled edges and an onion helmet. In the south of the two eastern bays of the nave, the late Gothic two-bay Marienkapelle was rebuilt from 1724 to 1729 and received a pilaster structure and a flat hanging dome and was decorated with stucco by Franz Josef Holzinger . In the Lady Chapel, fresco medallions depict the four evangelists in flat stucco relief in rich bandwork.
Furnishing
The masonry high altar in the choir from 1734 was designed with stucco marble and shows an altar sheet by the painter Michelangelo Unterberger . In the nave there is a side altar St. Maria by Josef Furthner (1937). Another side altar bears a statue of the Heart of Jesus by Josef Furthner. There are numerous heraldic gravestones in the church, some of them by the sculptor Jörg Gartner from Passau.
The organ was built by Johann Ignaz Egedacher (1723).
literature
- Aurolzmünster, parish church of St. Mauritius. S. 32. In: The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Upper Austria. By Erwin Hainisch , reworked by Kurt Woisetschläger , prefaces to the 3rd edition (1958) and 4th edition (1960) by Walter Frodl , sixth edition, Verlag Anton Schroll & Co., Vienna 1977.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 14 '53.1 " N , 13 ° 27' 21.9" E