Ebenfurth parish church
The Ebenfurth parish church is located on Heldenplatz in the municipality of Ebenfurth in the Wiener Neustadt-Land district in Lower Austria . The Roman Catholic parish church consecrated to Saint Ulrich of Augsburg belongs to the dean's office Wiener Neustadt in the vicariate Unter dem Wienerwald of the Archdiocese of Vienna . In the south of the parish church remains of the former city wall and the remainder of a former kennel are preserved.
history
In the eastern corner of the former city wall from the 16th century that has been preserved south of the church, the former Karner is probably integrated or the rest of the former church tower is integrated, it is a rectangular building below the level of the square with a barrel vault made of broken stones. The mighty Gothic nave building, reworked in the Baroque with wide buttresses and arched windows, has a Gothic choir with a southern Gothic side chapel from the first half of the 14th century. The presented west tower from 1804 was designed in a neo-Gothic style with the west front in 1854.
A church was mentioned in documents in 1219, and it was assumed that it was founded as a separate parish in the 13th century. In 1268 the church went to the Order of St. John , and from 1530 to the Order of Malta , which received the church as the patronage church until 1748 .
On September 1, 2016, the Ebenfurth parish moved from the Weigelsdorf deanery to the Wiener Neustadt deanery.
architecture
- Church exterior
The mighty nave with undivided, essentially Gothic walls, was given a facade in the Baroque era with wide, raised support pillars and large arched windows. On the south side, the nave has a deep gothic pointed arch portal. On the south side there is also a polygonal baroque stair tower, which ends below the height of the baptism.
The retracted Gothic choir with a five-eighth closure has stepped buttresses with a three-part tracery window, the other choir windows are walled up. On the south side of the choir there is a Gothic choir side chapel with a sloping end as a former Maltese chapel, which is now used as a sacristy. The choir side chapel has two-lane tracery windows, buttresses and a pointed arch portal.
The presented square west tower has neo-Gothic buttresses with cross roofing on the tower corners, at the top the tower is polygonal with acoustic windows in an aedicular frame, and over it wears a high pointed helmet. The tower porch has a pointed gable.
On the north side of the choir, between two buttresses, there is a relief Mount of Olives from the first quarter of the 18th century with a sculptural statue of Christ. On the church building is a war memorial with a relief plaque.Two angels carry a dead soldier from the 1920s with inscription plaques, above is a stone with the Maltese cross with the year 1713. There is also a plaque with 1765, and a plaque with the relief Vanitas (skull with hourglass) from the 17th century.
- Church interior
The interior of the church appears as a three-bay hall space, the square vaults on wide belts are from the third quarter of the 18th century. The centralizing spatial tendency is created by the wall pillars delimiting the middle yoke with the formation of segment-arched niches. The three-axis gallery is vaulted under a square. The triumphal arch is rounded. The retracted two-bay choir has a Gothic ribbed vault from the first half of the 14th century with polychrome keystones with belt and partition ribs, with the coat of arms of the Lords of Pottendorf , with St. Ulrich, with the head of John the Baptist . Facing the walls, there is a baroque cladding with a circumferential profiled cornice with three-quarter-shaped wall pilasters as a structure. The Maltese chapel and today's sacristy is single-bay with a ribbed vault with a five-part beveled choir closure and shows a keystone with the Maltese cross . The tower hall has a groin vault.
The former Maltese chapel shows a Gothic fresco cycle from the 15th century, depicting the Madonna, two saints, and the crucifixion .
Furnishing
The high altar from the second quarter of the 18th century has a splendid baroque frame retable with a lush frame decoration with angels holding the frame, putti and a halo. The high altar picture Transfiguration of St. Ulrich, painted in 1721 by Johann Georg Schmidt , contains a depiction of the Battle of Ebenfurth . The tabernacle bears a statue of Maria Immaculate from the second quarter of the 18th century.
The left side altar St. Maria as a flat wall retable from the first quarter of the 18th century shows the altarpiece Mariahilf and carries the statues of St. Elisabeth with the boy Johannes and St. Anna with Maria. The right side altar Holy Family as a baroque wall retable from the first quarter of the 18th century shows the altarpiece Holy Family with Saints John, Elisabeth and Zacharias, signed Wasshueber GH, and bears the statues Karl Borromeo and Rochus. There are two other altars from the second half of the 18th century: The Trinity altar carries a late Gothic crucifix from the end of the 15th century. The altar of St. Leonhard shows the altarpiece to St. Leonhard from the end of the 16th century. There is also a replica of the Freising high altar from around 1700 in the sacristy.
The richly designed pulpit from the second quarter of the 18th century bears the saints Nikolaus, Ulrich, Leonhard, Florian and the relief figures Augustine and Johannes Evangelist, and on the sound cover the coronation of Mary . There are console figures of Saints Franz Xavier, Johannes Nepomuk, Sebastian and Florian from the second quarter of the 18th century. The Pietà figure is from the end of the 19th century.
The oil painting St. Anthony of Padua before Mary and the oil painting St. Sebastian was created around 1720 in the workshop of Johann Georg Schmidt. The oil painting St. Rochus in the succession of Diepenbeeck is from the third quarter of the 17th century. The Stations of the Cross, following Joseph von Führich , were created in the second half of the 19th century. The picture Baptism of Christ is from the second half of the 18th century.
There is a Silesian drapery crib with many figures from around 1800.
The red marble font is from the 14th century. The offering box is from the 15th century. Johann Anton Nikolaus Loew calls a bell in 1718.
The coat of arms tombstone Hartneid von Pottendorf 1426 is heavily ceded, the relief tombstone Jakob von Stamp mentions 1552, a relief death shield Jakob von Stamp mentions 1552, an epitaph mentions Frau Wiesenauer 1653.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria south of the Danube 2003 . Ebenfurth, parish church hl. Ulrich, pp. 359-361.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 52 ′ 32.9 " N , 16 ° 22 ′ 17.1" E