Parish Church Draßburg
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The Roman Catholic parish church Draßburg is in the municipality Draßburg in the Mattersburg district in Burgenland . The parish church , consecrated to St. Anne , belongs to the Mattersburg deanery in the Eisenstadt diocese . The church is a listed building .
history
"The municipality of Draßburg has a partly Gothic church, which was first mentioned in a document in 1521." Draßburg was founded as a late medieval village between 1321 and 1368. Since the economic and financial prerequisites for the establishment of its own parish were not given, the diocese of Raab, as the responsible church authority, joined the place as a subsidiary of an already existing parish in the neighborhood, namely the Baumgarten parish. It is possible that, before the Baumgartner parish was founded, Draßburg was assigned to the nearby parish of Maria de Bagad, later known as Kleinfrauenhaid. For the believers in the branch parish, belonging to the Baumgarten parish meant that they had to make the arduous journey to the Sunday service regardless of the weather. Initial attempts to found a separate parish in connection with the establishment of new parishes at the time of Josephinism failed. The attempt was successful in the late autumn of 1849 when the parish asked the Raab bishop to set up its own parish. She cited the strong increase in population in Draßburg as reasons. When the weather was bad, the Draßburg worshipers found no place in the Baumgarten church and were exposed to the cold outside the church. Draßburg had over 1,000 inhabitants at that time. Count Nikolaus Zichy, the last landlord of Draßburg-Untergut, as a proponent of the community, opposed the responsible deputy archdeacon and city pastor of Ödenburg with concrete proposals regarding the construction of the rectory and the endowment of the new parish. Count Zichy and the community contributed financially to the project, donations and work had been promised by the faithful, and two farmers ceded part of their home gardens for the construction of the rectory in exchange for compensation. Construction began in July 1850 and was completed in 1851. The founding of the Draßburg parish in 1851 also meant the separation from the parent parish Baumgarten.
The church building from the 14th and 15th centuries was later rebuilt and vaulted in 1701. From 1969 to 1973 and around 2005 an interior and exterior restoration was carried out.
architecture
The mighty four-storey west tower with a stone pointed gable helmet stands above a medieval substructure under a separate monument protection . The nave , which is essentially medieval, has buttresses and baroque windows. The retracted lower choir with a three-eighth closure has bricked-up Gothic windows and two-tiered buttresses. The south portal has baroque shapes. Inside the church, the former north portal was exposed in 1970 with a cantilever arch from the 15th century. There is an 18th century tombstone on the sacristy wall .
The three-bay nave has a barrel vault with stitch caps and straps on pilasters . The three-axis west gallery has a groin vault . The triumphal arch is wide and rounded. In the choir bay there is a vaulted concrete barrel with lance caps, the apse is vaulted with caps between kinked straps over pilasters. Fragments of a Passion cycle around 1500 have been preserved as wall paintings in the choir bay. On the east side of the triumphal arch, fragments of a decorative painting from the first half of the 16th century, which were uncovered in 1970.
Furnishing
The furniture was created by Nikolaus Minich from Ödenburg in the fourth quarter of the 18th century.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Burgenland 1976 . Draßburg, Catholic parish church hl. Anna, chapel of St. Maria an der Straße to the south, cemetery chapel in the new cemetery, pp. 59–60.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Burgenland Provincial Government (Ed.): Allgemeine Landestopographie des Burgenlandes . third volume, 2nd part volume. Self-published by the Office of the Burgenland Provincial Government, Dept. XII / 2, Eisenstadt 1993, p. 136 .
- ^ Felix Tobler: The founding of the parish Draßburg in 1851 . In: Erwin Kurz (Ed.): From the gate . No. 11 . Schattendorf 2009, p. 13 ff .
Coordinates: 47 ° 44 ′ 39.8 ″ N , 16 ° 29 ′ 17 ″ E