Bockfließ parish church
The Roman Catholic parish church Bockfließ is located in the municipality of Bockfließ in the Mistelbach district in Lower Austria . It is consecrated to St. James and belongs to the deanery Gänserndorf in the vicariate Unter dem Manhartsberg of the Archdiocese of Vienna . The building is a listed building .
Location description
The church is in the center of the village on the main street.
history
The church is first mentioned in a document in 1217. From 1376 the church was under the administration of the parish Großrussbach . From 1560 the church was a princely parish. In 1785 the church became the seat of the deanery. The old parish church was demolished in 1871. The new building was constructed from 1874 and consecrated in 1876. Restorations took place in 1948 and 1964.
Church building
- Church exterior
The neo-Gothic hall church has a facade tower on the south side. The choir is oriented to the north. The tower on the southern tower facade stands over a square floor plan. The upper floors are designed in an octagon. Above it is a pointed helmet . On the ground floor of the tower is a portal with a clad gable field . The year 1876 is in the three-pass . The gable rests on pillars with bud capitals . The portal can be reached via an external staircase. The portal has an ogival reveal . Above it is a tracery tympanum . In the southeast corner of the church, the Atschko burial chapel from 1876 is integrated into the church. The portal to the burial chapel has neo-Gothic shapes and is crowned by a tracery balustrade . The side walls and the choir are divided by buttresses and a coffin cornice. The choir in the north is closed in the 4/6. The facade is pierced by lancet windows. On the east side of the church is a shoulder arch portal . On the northwest side of the church is a small octagonal tower with a pyramid roof .
- Church interior
The first floor of the tower is a square cross-rib vaulted porch. The single-nave nave is four-bay and vaulted with ribs. The walls have blind arches , in front of them are angular services . The three-axis organ gallery rests on massive round pillars and is vaulted under the ribs. A pointed triumphal arch separates the nave from the retracted choir with a 4/6 end. The stained glass windows from around 1900 show depictions of saints.
Furnishing
The facility is from the construction period. The altars are designed as neo-Gothic reredos and painted in color. The high altar picture shows St. James and angels. It comes from Carl Joseph Geiger and Josef Kessler . On the left side altar is a picture of St. Joseph . On the right side altar is the miraculous image " Maria Schnee ". It was painted over in a later time. The pulpit in neo-Gothic form was built around 1875. In the church there is a larger than life wooden crucifix from 1635. It was revised and redesigned later.
In the Atschko grave chapel there is a neo-Gothic three-niche altar with a figure of the Madonna with child and angels from around 1875.
organ
The organ dates from 1850. The case was built around 1875.
Bells
The bell was cast by the Scheichel bell foundry around 1800 .
literature
- DEHIO manual. The art monuments of Austria: Lower Austria. North of the Danube. Bockfließ. Parish Church of Saint James. Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.), Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-7031-0585-2 , p. 67.
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).
Coordinates: 48 ° 21 '36.2 " N , 16 ° 36' 14.3" E