Parish Church Eferding

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The Roman Catholic parish church Eferding , also called Eferding Cathedral , is located in the town of Eferding in the Eferding district in Upper Austria . The church consecrated to St. Hippolytus of Rome belongs to the deanery Eferding in the diocese of Linz .

Parish church hl. Hippolytus, Eferding
Twin spiral staircase

The building is under monument protection ( list entry ).

history

When transferring relics of St. Hippolytus from the Tegernsee Monastery to the Hippolytus Monastery in St. Pölten was also stopped in Eferding on the Danube . Therefore, around 786, the patronage of St. Hippolytus chosen. The Passau bishop Reginbert von Hagenau named the secular Rantwicus in Eferding ( plebanus de Evridingen ) in a letter to Mattsee Abbey in 1145/1146 . A document from 1209 names the pastor Leutoldus. In 1222 Eferding received city ​​rights . In 1407 the Passau prince-archbishop Georg von Hohenlohe laid the foundation stone for the new building of the Eferdingen parish church and the church, together with the parish church of Braunau and the parish church of Steyr, is one of the major medieval churches in Upper Austria. The medieval staggered church was not built until 1451, first by the master builder of the Passau cathedral, Jörg Windisch, and after his death by his foreman Bernhard Reckendorffer. The patron saints of the church were the Counts of Schaunberg and their successors were the Starhemberg . On the evening of New Year's Day 1507, the total cost of the new building was given as £ 5191 pfennigs.

Due to the Reformation and due to the change of faith of the patron saints and about 75% of the population, Protestant pastors worked in the church from 1544 to 1624 . Valuable epitaphs originate from this time , such as the Schaunberger Hochgrab and the big bell of the peal, which was cast in Linz in 1586. The town of Eferding and large parts of Upper Austria were devastated in the Peasants' War in 1626 . In the course of the Counter Reformation in the middle of the 17th century, the church was equipped with baroque altars and a new pulpit. The rulership of the city was held by Mr. Füll von Windbach. With Count Johann Ludwig von Starhemberg in 1660 with the repurchase of Starhemberg Castle, the rule went back to the Starhembergers. Under Pastor Wolfgang Italus (-1701) the medieval colored glass windows were replaced by normal window glass to brighten the church.

The rotting of the oak posts on the foundation resulted in numerous cracks and cracks in the church building. Due to the danger of collapse, the church was closed for 16 months until the Johann Höhne company from Vienna-Währing was able to underpin the foundation. The church was saved from demolition through the commitment of the patron saint Georg Adam Prince of Starhemberg II (1785–1860) with the pastor Josef Hoflehner (–1875), which was recorded in 1842 with a chronogram above the triumphal arch.

Under pastor Karl Grienberger (1875-1908) the plastered or grouted masonry of the church was exposed inside and outside. Inside the church, the pillars remained visible from stone and the walls and vaults were newly plastered. A new neo-Gothic high altar and some altars in side chapels were installed. With the pastor Anton Ludwig (–1928) neo-Gothic windows of the Ostermann and Hartwin glass workshop in Freising were installed and the restoration was completed in 1912.

With Pastor Friedrich Hueber (–2000), an existing Gothic stone altar in a side chapel was broken off through the liturgical reform and re-erected as a people's altar in the choir.

In 1994 the church roof was re-covered.

architecture

Church exterior

The multi-aisle, late Gothic staggered hall has naves under a gable roof and is lit through windows in the low outer longitudinal walls. It is assumed that the church was built around and above a medieval predecessor church, with the interior of the predecessor church being demolished after completion. The tower from the 14th century was preserved on the lower floors. The foundation stone , laid in 1407, between the choir and the men's chapel, now in the choir corner to the nave, now the Holy Spirit Chapel, did not begin construction until 1451. The chapel was completed in 1457 after six years and the construction of the choir was interrupted at the height of the window sills. Extensive foundation work for the nave followed, and with another laying of the foundation stone in the northeast corner of the nave on August 6, 1466, the erection of the nave walls and the nave pillars began. The church was completed in 1505 after around 50 years with the installation of the twin spiral staircase to the gallery. The parish church stands on today's church square, which was initially a cemetery. The church shows the unplastered massive masonry with hewn stones and rubble stones from the area, whereby stones from the broken down previous church were also used. The choir and nave have tiered buttresses. In the western gable wall there are Roman stones and an ancient relief. The large Gothic saddle roof covers the retracted choir and all three naves of the nave and has a ridge height of 31 m. In the northern corner of the choir is the Holy Spirit Chapel, the oldest part of the church. In the southern corner of the choir is the medieval high Gothic tower. At the time of the Baroque era, the sound windows were given a round arched wall on the outside, with the Gothic tracery of the windows being partially preserved on the inside. On the first floor of the tower is the old sacristy with a ribbed vault from the 14th century. The keystone of the vault shows a relief representation of the head of Christ with a cross-shaped halo. At first the tower had a steep wedge roof, which was destroyed by lightning in 1606. During the reconstruction in 1624, a circumferential gallery and an onion helmet with a lantern were put on. In 1727, the spire was rebuilt with the baroque master builder Johann Michael Prunner due to ongoing security measures . The new baroque sacristy with oratory was added to the tower and choir in 1762. The facade shows late baroque stucco decorations and window baskets.

The south portal as the main portal of the church is a richly designed double portal with lintels with shoulder arches. Above it are two arched windows with quatrefoil tracery, crabs and finials and pinnacles in between. Three stone figures on consoles under canopies show in the middle the Mother of God with the baby Jesus and, smaller, the kneeling Count Sigmund I von Schaunberg (–1498), who was involved in laying the foundation stone. The prayer stool shows the Schaunberg coat of arms and the year 1497. The stone figure on the left shows St. Hippolytus as church patron. The right stone figure shows St. Aegidius with the attributes abbot's staff and jumping dog as the patron saint of shipmen. The north portal repeats the design of the south portal with great simplicity. The west portal with a multi-profiled garment shows two stone figures on consoles under canopies, on the left the apostle Mattias with the attribute of hatchet as the patron of the building craftsmen, on the right the apostle Thomas with the attribute of angle as the patron of the architects. The relief above the straight lintel shows the handkerchief of Veronica held by two angels.

Back view: pulpit and gallery
Church interior

The three-aisled nave over six bays has nine (2009) side chapels between the wall pillars at the edge. In the middle, 5 pillars on each side support the ribbed vault. The vault has a fan-shaped arrangement of the ribs from the individual pillars to the looped separating arches of the edge pillars. The keystones show the Schaunberger coats of arms. The six individual pillars east of the choir are octagonal-star-shaped, the four remaining western individual pillars are only octagonal. The outer walls of the nave have five pointed arched windows on both sides. Each nave window has a different tracery structure. The window glasses show representations from the life of Jesus and saints.

Four steps lead through the massive choir arch into the three-and-a-half-bay choir with a 3/8 end. The choir has a ribbed vault and five high windows. Four windows show representations from the life of Jesus.

The west gallery with the twin spiral staircase from 1505 has an openwork tracery parapet and rests on three stone keel arches in the central nave and two keel arches each in the side aisles. On the back wall of the gallery is a large window with the representation of St. Cecilia, the patroness of church music.

Furnishing

High altar

Two larger-than-life figures of the apostles St. Peter and St. Paulus of the former baroque high altar have been on the inside of the main portal of the Cathedral of Mary in Linz since 1946 . The statue of St. Hippolytus of the baroque altar is now on the south wall in the choir.

The neo-Gothic high altar was built in 1890 by the sculptor Franz Schmalzl from Ortisei in Val Gardena based on a design by the Franciscan Father Johannes Maria Reiter from Hall in Tirol. The figures show in the middle the coronation of Mary flanked by the apostles Peter with the doctors of the church Thomas Aquinas and Bonaventure and Paulus with Francis of Assisi and John of Capestrano . The Archangels Michael and Raphael stand to the left and right of the tabernacle. Above the coronation of Mary is the figure of the church patron St. Hippolytus flanked by angels with symbols of martyrdom. Next to it on the left are St. Rupert of Salzburg and on the right St. Konrad von Mondsee. To the left of the central shrine stands St. Nicholas as the patron saint of boatmen, raftsmen and traders and on the right St. Valentin as late Roman bishop in Passau; separated from it on the left of St. Severin on the bank as the apostle of Noricum and on the right the hermit Aegidius with the hind as the patron saint of the sailors. The top figure shows St. Wolfgang of Regensburg . The figurative program of the high altar largely referred to the monastery church of the Franciscan monastery Pupping in Pupping, where St. Wolfgang died on a trip in 994.

Side altars

The baroque side altars around 1660 in the nave on the triumphal arch wall are the Catherine altar on the left and the Barbara altar on the right. Both altars have winding columns, vines and moving angel figures. At the Katharinen altar the altar sheet shows the decapitation of St. Katharina, the extract of St. Severin, the predelle picture depicts the death of St. Catherine. At the Barbara altar, the altarpiece shows the beheading of St. Barbara, the excerpt shows Christ on the Mount of Olives, the Predelle picture shows the resurrection of St. Lazarus.

The north side chapels
  • 1. Chapel: Altar of St. Franz von Paola
  • 2nd chapel: Altar of St. Michael
  • 3. Chapel in the anteroom of the north portal: Mount of Olives altar
  • 4. Chapel: Altar of St. Peter and St. Andreas
  • 5. Chapel: baker's, Anne's and All Saints' altars
The southern side chapels
  • 1. Chapel at the back: Baptistery
  • 2nd chapel: Altar of St. Joseph
  • 3rd chapel: Pietà
  • 4th chapel: Weber and Florianial tariffs
  • 5. Chapel: Marienaltar and there, free-standing, the Renaissance high grave of Wolfgang II. Von Schaunberg (–1559) and his wife Anna Countess von Ortenburg-Salamance (–1569). Before the restoration (2000), the reliefs in the choir, the cover plate in this chapel and the coat of arms-bearing lions were walled in in the base of the sacristy.
pulpit

The baroque pulpit around 1660 shows niche figures in the pulpit basket: in the middle John the Baptist with fur, staff and banner, on his sides four church fathers, St. Gregory with miter, St. Jerome with a cardinal's hat, St. Ambrose with beehive and St. Augustine with a heart. The sound cover, carried by two large angels, is crowned by a statue of the Risen One. The pulpit staircase shows five oil paintings with depictions from the life of Jesus.

organ

In front of the organ on the balustrade are the figures of St. Aloisius and St. Johannes Nepomuk, carvings from Val Gardena from the 19th century. The organ was built by Orgelbau Breinbauer in Ottensheim in 1913 and has a pneumatic action with 38 registers and six couplers . Breinbauer used large stocks of the previous organ from 1844.

Chimes
  • Big Bell Witness 1586 cast by Augustin Kaltenecker in Linz with 1150 kg and tone "e"
  • 12 o'clock bell from 1949 from the St. Florian bell foundry with 707 kg and tone "g"
  • 11 o'clock bell or measuring bell from 1949 in St. Florian with 340 kg and tone "a"
  • Dining bell from 1949 in St. Florian with 284 kg and tone "h"
  • Death bell from 1949 in St. Florian with 77 kg and tone "as"

Epitaphs

  • The oldest epitaph at Westportal is to Friedrich Ecker, who died in Eferding in 1388, his son was a city judge.
  • A grave monument on the north wall of the choir is dedicated to Count Konrad Balthasar von Starhemberg, the father of Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg , leader of the defenders of Vienna during the Second Turkish Siege of Vienna
  • An epitaph at the vestry entrance of the choir for three and a half year old Georg Christoph Praunfalk (–1617), son of Peter Christoph Praunfalk zu Neuhaus and his wife Anna. The relief of the Fall and the Resurrection with 1 Cor 15:22 is remarkable.
  • There are mighty grave slabs of the city lord Schaunberger, at the north portal to Count Georg III. von Schaunberg (–1554) as a fully armed knight on a lion with the Schaunberger coat of arms and the Arco coat of arms for his wife.
  • Between the baker's altar and the music choir is an epitaph to Pastor Wolfgang Italus (–1701), who was responsible for making the church Baroque.

photos

  • The staircase to the gallery via the double spiral staircase

  • Below the gallery

  • Side altars in the aisle

  • The baroque pulpit from the 17th century

  • The neo-Gothic high altar

  • The entrance portal from the inside

  • Detailed view of the entrance portal

  • General view of the church from the south

literature

Web links

Commons : Sankt Hippolyt (Eferding)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Florian Oberchristl: Bells of the Diocese of Linz. Verlag R. Pirngruber, Linz 1941, p. 96.

Coordinates: 48 ° 18 '42.8 "  N , 14 ° 1' 19.9"  E