Parish church of Bruck an der Leitha
The Roman Catholic parish church of Bruck an der Leitha is in the municipality of Bruck an der Leitha in Lower Austria . The parish church of the Holy Trinity belongs to the deanery of Bruck an der Leitha in the vicariate Unter dem Wienerwald of the Archdiocese of Vienna . The church is a listed building .
history
Since the old Martinskirche in front of the gates of the "new" city was repeatedly destroyed by enemy invasions, had long since become too small for the steadily growing population and the monastery churches and chapels within the city walls could no longer be used for church services in the middle of the 17th century the decision was made to build a new parish church within the city gates. The Turkish siege and the appearance of the plague thwarted these plans again and again. After the Ottoman army was successfully defeated in the Battle of Vienna in 1683 and the plague was also considered extinct, the city council decided to rebuild a worthy church on the main square out of gratitude. The church was to be added to the existing medieval city tower. The early baroque church Il Gesù in Rome served as a model .
First construction phase (1696–1702)
Under master builder Heinrich Hoffmann , the nave was built parallel to the house front, which is why the city tower - now converted into a church tower - is rotated about 15 degrees in a northerly direction. It was increased by the construction of the bell chamber and received a baroque spire.
Second construction phase (1738–40)
The unadorned front was replaced by the master builder Johann Georg Windpässinger with a two-story grand facade. The figurative decoration comes from Martin Vögerl (Mariensäule Hainburg an der Donau) and shows the figure of Saint John of Nepomuk with the representation of the Vltava bridge on the base above the main portal (city coat of arms with the year 1740) . Further figures in the basement are the portraits of the plague saints Sebastian with a tree and Rochus with a plague bump on his knee, as well as St. Florian with the water bucket and St. Leopold . On the upper floor - flanked with vase-crowned volutes from whose ornamental vessels the sacrificial flame is licking - the depiction of the Holy Archangel Michael , who plunges Satan into the abyss with a flaming sword. In the gable field a splendidly rimmed sign with the inscription: "QUIS UT DEUS?" (Who is like God?)
Last structural changes (1782–83)
The tower helmet was raised by the lantern of the train bell and its shape was slightly modified (tower height: 53.35 m).
Furnishing
The interior is 42 meters long and 14 meters wide, the chapel niches on both sides measure 3 meters each. The single-nave nave is spanned by a four-bay, lightly stuccoed needle cap barrel. Recessed wall pillars, which are divided by double pilasters , carry a sharply profiled entablature to which the barrel-vaulted galleries adjoin. The slightly drawn-in, two-bay choir forms the straight end .
The baroque high altar from 1704 is a donation from Johann Jakob Stumpf, councilor and personal physician to Emperor Leopold I. Good altar sheet with the depiction of the Most Holy Trinity from the circle of Daniel Gran . Image of grace of the painful Mother of God (18th century) from the Spittelwald chapel . Statues of the princes of the apostles St. Paulus (left) and St. Peter (right) Saint Barbara and Saint Catherine with crown, palm and sword in the entablature zone.
Five side altars from the 2nd quarter of the 18th century:
- Corporis Christ or Corpus Christi altar with altar sheet of St. Francis of Assisi from the middle of the 19th century by the Viennese painter Leopold Schulz (School Professor Kuppelwieser).
- Cross altar with altarpiece Christ on the cross. Statues of Saints Jerome (left) and Augustine (right). Baptismal font from 1700, on the lid (2nd half of the 18th century) depicting the baptism of Christ in the Jordan by John the Baptist.
- Family altar with altarpiece of the Holy Family: Mary and Joseph with the infant Jesus, Elisabeth and Zacharias with little Johannes. Statues of Saints Francis of Assisi (left) and Anthony of Padua (right), 1725.
- Women's or Mary 's altar with oval picture of Mariahilf based on a model from the 16th century. Baroque glass sarcophagus with the bones of the martyr St. Theodorus .
- Plague altar with image of Saint Sebastian dying as a martyr (2nd half of 17th century) in front of it Saint Rosalia with a wreath of roses on her forehead. Statues of Saints Rochus and Florian , around 1730.
Baroque hanging pulpit, basket with relief of the Good Shepherd. Sound cover set with a group of evangelists, angels and tablets of the law.
The organ, built in 1710 by the Viennese master organ builder Jakob Sippus, was expanded in 1749 and has a statuette of King David at the end. Currently 300 wooden and 996 tin pipes, the largest five meters, the smallest one centimeter long.
The Big Bell (Vienna, 1752) shows a relief of Mary with the child, Peter, Paul and John of Nepomuk. With a diameter of 158 cm and a height of 150 cm it sounds pitch h . Weighing in at 2400 kilograms, it is one of the largest bells in Lower Austria.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 1 ′ 31.4 " N , 16 ° 46 ′ 43" E