Parish church Drasenhofen
 Parish church Drasenhofen seen from the church square |
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| Basic data | |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| place | Drasenhofen, Austria |
| archdiocese | Vienna |
| Patronage | Vitus (saint) |
| Building history | |
| construction time | 1680-1689 |
| Building description | |
| inauguration | 1688 |
| Architectural style | Baroque |
| Construction type | Hall church |
| 48 ° 45 '17.2 " N , 16 ° 38' 55.7" E | |
The parish church of Drasenhofen is located in the municipality of Drasenhofen in the Mistelbach district in Lower Austria . The Roman Catholic parish church , consecrated to the patronage of St. Vitus , belongs to the Poysdorf deanery in the vicariate Unter dem Manhartsberg of the Archdiocese of Vienna . The church is a listed building ( list entry ).
location
The parish church of Drasenhofen is elevated on the southeast edge of the village of the same name.
history
In the Middle Ages there was a St. Vitus Church in Steinebrunn, one kilometer from Drasenhofen . In 1475 a priest Bernhard von Steinebrunn was mentioned, but the church belonged to Falkenstein . In the course of the Reformation, the landlord Hans von Fünfkirchen promoted Protestantism. During a visitation in 1544 it was mentioned that there had been no pastor in Steinebrunn for eleven years, and in 1558 that the vicarage in Steinebrunn had burned down and the Fünfkirchen had set up a press house in it. Around 1660 the building was described as a once handsome church, of which only the choir and the baptismal font made of carved stone remain . Today there are no more traces of the church. On September 23, 1678, the pastor of Falkenstein made a petition to the Diocese of Passau about the need to build a church in Drasenhofen and referred to the deserted church of St. Veit in Steinebrunn. In 1679 the building permit was granted; the outbreak of the plague in 1680 and the second Turkish siege delayed construction. With a grant from the patron saint of the Falkenstein parish, Prince Bishop Ernst von Trautson , the church was consecrated in 1688. In 1784 Drasenhofen was raised to an independent parish in the course of the Josephine parish reform .
architecture
The early baroque hall church was built between 1680 and 1689 and partially rebuilt in 1926.
Exterior description
The parish church in Drasenhofen is a simple early baroque building, the design of which is based on the parish church of Falkenstein . The west facade, structured with pilasters , niches and volutes, cites the Falkensteiner model. The buttresses with basket arches are even more clearly a reference to the Falkenstein nave facade. The staircase to the gallery and the chapel-like side entrance were inserted between the buttresses . In 1875 a sacristy with an oratory , the Grafenkammerl , was added to the south-west corner of the church . Above the access door to a round bay window with a spiral staircase there is a stone coat of arms of the Counts of Fünfkirchen .
Inside description
The interior of the church is shaped by the renovation of 1926, when the barrel vault in the nave was demolished and replaced with a wooden ceiling. The pilasters and beams that had dominated the baroque appearance of the interior until then were removed, the window openings enlarged to form ogival niches and new windows with stained glass. The windows were designed by Reinhold Klaus and manufactured by the famous Viennese studio Carl Geyling's Erben . The triumphal arch and ceiling were painted with colorful spikes, based on the expressionism prevailing at the time of construction . The presbytery was painted with rosettes. In 1952, most of the expressionist painting from the 1920s was removed and today only the wooden ceiling is preserved.
Scaffolding for dismantling the church vault. The baroque pilasters can still be seen on the walls.
Church interior immediately after the renovation with expressionist jagged frieze around the triumphal arch.
Presbytery of the parish church with painted rosettes from the later 1920s
View of the interior with the classicistic high altar
King David - one of six Geyling -Glasfenster of 1928
Furnishing
The early baroque pulpit dates from the time the church was built . Four volutes bear a figure of the Apostle Paul on the sound cover . The classicistic high altar was built around 1800. Two Corinthian pilasters made of stucco marble frame the altarpiece, above a triangle with the divine name Yahweh in a halo. The altar is flanked by two life-size, colored figures of Saints Florian and Sebastian as Roman officers. The original altarpiece came from Martin Johann Schmidt , known as Kremser Schmidt and showed the martyrdom of Saint Vitus. In 1863 it was removed and replaced by today's picture with the same theme.
A late 17th-century oil painting depicting the Adoration of the Shepherds hangs over the door to the sacristy . The painting comes from the parish church of Poysbrunn and was part of the right side altar there until 1880, in 1956 it came to Drasenhofen.
organ
The three-axis, two-storey gallery rests on two Tuscan columns over a groin vault from the 17th century and is accessed via a covered external staircase. As early as 1820, a second, wooden gallery above it was mentioned as a musician's choir. Today's Rieger organ was consecrated in 1987.
Pastoral care
In the neighboring village, one kilometer away, is the Steinebrunn branch church , consecrated to St. Anna.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from September 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Anton Schulla "Chronicle of the community Drasenhofen" 1985, page 40 ff., NÖLB Verb.Nr. 158348
- ^ Prelate Franz Stubenvoll, Poysbrunn - The history of the village, its rule and its parish, EV 1994
- ↑ Two of the windows (St. Theresa of Avila and Petrus Canisius) are signed.
- ^ Feuchtmüller : The Kremser Schmidt. 1718-1801; Monograph and catalog raisonné, Vienna, 1989, ISBN 3-7022-1689-8 ; Page 582; Nothing is known about the further fate of Kremser Schmidt from Drasenhofen.
- ^ Prelate Franz Stubenvoll, Poysbrunn - The history of the village, its rule and its parish, page 728, EV 1994
- ↑ Anton Schulla "Chronicle of the municipality Drasenhofen" 1985, page 48. NÖLB Verb.Nr. 158348
- ↑ http://www.rieger-orgelbau.com/details/project/Drasenhofen/
