Bromberg parish church
The Roman Catholic parish church Bromberg is located in Bromberg in the market town of Bromberg in Lower Austria . The parish church of St. Lambert , incorporated into the Reichersberg monastery , belongs to the Kirchberg deanery in the Archdiocese of Vienna . The church is a listed building .
history
The Kirchweiler on a hillside on Schlattenbach-Talstraße was mentioned in a document as a parish in 1144 and is the oldest daughter of the Pitten parish. The parish was incorporated into the Reichersberg monastery in 1160 and became the center of monastery property in the Bucklige Welt . Dendrochronological dating of the roof structure of the church name the years 1405, 1422, 1475, 1557. The church was consecrated in 1496. The original curtain wall with towers and forecourt of the fortified church was demolished in 1824 and a west portal was built. An interior restoration with excavations took place in 1981/1982.
architecture
- Church exterior
The church is elevated to the north above the place on the so-called Steigberg and is surrounded by a cemetery. The original Romanesque square choir hall was excavated in 1981. The church is a mighty Gothic hall church with a choir tower. The nave under a mighty gable roof was built from 1471 to 1496 and has strong buttresses with water hammer. The undivided west facade has corner buttresses and a high circular opening and sloping walls . The west portal with the staircase was built in 1824. The south facade has tracery windows with pinned posts and pairs of fish bubbles . The remarkable south portal in the second yoke is a late Gothic shoulder portal with a round arched bar frame, the tympanum shows the relief of the coats of arms of the Archdiocese of Salzburg , Reichersberg monastery and of Provost Bartholomäus Hoyer (1469–1482). The cast bay window above the south portal was removed in 1824. The north wall of the nave has a lancet window with tracery in the fifth yoke .
The compact choir tower has a wedge roof from the 1st half of the 19th century. The bottom floor is from the 12th century. The tower was raised by one and a half storeys at the end of the 14th and beginning of the 15th century and shows a small chamfered rectangular window. In the middle of the 15th century, the sound floor with pointed and arched windows was added. Due to the later construction of the larger nave (1471–1496), the western sound windows are inoperable in the attic area. The tower has a stone block up to the sound level. The middle floor has a barrel vault as fire protection.
In the southern corner of the tower to the nave there is a late Gothic chapel from the 15th century with a polygonal choir closure with ashlar on the edges. The chapel now serves as a two-storey sacristy . In the corner of the chapel to the nave, a spiral staircase tower is installed as a staircase to the tower.
The east wall of the tower shows a monumental wall painting of St. Christophorus with an ornamental ribbon from the end of the 14th century, restored in 1996. On the south side of the nave is a carved sundial on a buttress . On the south side in the third yoke there is an exit to a crypt (1804) and between the two buttresses there is a round arched niche, flanked by two classicist pyramids. In the crypt is a stone altar and several priestly grave plates from Reichersberg canons from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Three priest grave slabs are from the 17th century. In 1981 three tombstones from the 12th and 13th centuries were found.
- Church interior
In the middle of the 19th century, the fifth easternmost yoke in the five-bay nave was raised as a choir area. The nave has a vast net vault with shield arch ribs, a rib is denoted by 1496, to deep-seated approaches, with crest consoles and arms keystones , in the east with Dean Bartholomew and Barons of Puchheim to 1522. The three-axle organ loft, with ogival arcades opened, rib-under arches with heraldic keystones. The staircase to the gallery is a late Gothic spiral staircase . The Romanesque round-arched triumphal arch with a rounded cornice was closed with a wall in 1496 and renovated in 1720 and is now the wall behind the high altar. The Romanesque choir square as the tower ground floor has a smooth groin vault. To the south of the choir square is today's sacristy as a single - bay chapel with a five-eighth closure and a ribbed vault from the 15th century on probably older consoles with coats of arms and heads. The entrance to the tower in the west of the chapel has a chamfered portal.
Late Gothic vault paintings with floral motifs show four angels, consecration crosses and elaborate window frames with fittings and floral elements around the Heilig-Geist-Loch. In the choir square remains of a wall and vault painting with a remarkable depiction of a saint with a cross from the 13th century. The stained glass on the windows of the church is marked 1967.
Furnishing
The neo-Gothic high altar was created by Josef Angeler (1852). The altarpiece from the beginning of the 19th century shows St. Lambert, flanked by the statues Peter and Paul, and to the side Antonius and Augustine, and in the excerpt the group of figures Trinity . The side altars as two similar retables around 1750 have a slightly curved structure with two pairs of columns and a volute top , on the left the Marian altar with Mary and Child, flanked by Barbara and Katharina, on the right Sebastian, flanked by Patricius and Martin and in the excerpt Rochus. The pulpit was created by Josef Angeler around 1850 and shows statuettes of the evangelists.
The organ was built by Ignaz Gatto the Younger in 1789 and transferred here from Hausleiten in 1824 .
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria south of the Danube 2003 . Bromberg, parish church St. Lambert, pp. 300-301.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 40 ′ 0.7 ″ N , 16 ° 12 ′ 32.9 ″ E