Burgkirchen parish church
The parish church of Burgkirchen is located in St. Georgen an der Mattig in the municipality of Burgkirchen in Upper Austria . The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Maximilian belongs to the deanery Braunau in the diocese of Linz . The church and the walled cemetery are under monument protection .
history
A church was mentioned in a document around 1130. The Gothic church was redesigned in Baroque style in 1742.
architecture
The Gothic church building has tuff brickwork . A slightly drawn-in two-bay choir closes the single-nave five-bay nave with a three-eighth end. The Gothic vaults in the nave and choir were given a Baroque style and covered with delicate ribbon and lattice work by Johann Michael Vierthaler (1742). The frescoes are spoiled by the renovation. The Gothic south portal has a star rib vaulted porch. The north portal is Gothic. The three-axis west gallery is arched under star ribs. In the east of the Langhausjoch, the wall was opened to the south to create a chapel. The sacristy has a ribbed vault and a door with Gothic fittings. After a fire (1653), the west tower was transferred to an eight-sided upper floor and received an onion helmet.
The cemetery wall has a wedge cover.
Furnishing
The remarkable high altar from 1645 with important works by Martin Zürn . In the place of an originally figural middle group, the high altar painting Martyrdom of St. Maximilian in the manner of Johann Nepomuk della Croce from the second half of the 18th century. The side altars from 1665 have been changed after a restoration. The pulpit is like the church stalls from 1742. In the choir is a remarkable figural crucifixion group by the sculptor family Zürn (1651). The font is late Gothic.
A bell was cast by Simon Lenzer from Braunau in 1651.
literature
- Burgkirchen, parish church hl. Maximilian. P. 48. 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 ° 12 ′ 13.7 ″ N , 13 ° 6 ′ 2.2 ″ E