Parish church Eggendorf am Walde
The parish church of St. Jakob the Elder in Eggendorf am Walde , a cadastral parish of Maissau in Lower Austria , with a south-west facing tower and a semicircular apse in front, stands a little higher in the north-west part of the village. The east-facing baroque Roman Catholic hall church belongs to the dean's office Sitzendorf in the vicariate Unter dem Manhartsberg and is under monument protection according to the ordinance of the Federal Monuments Office .
Building description
Outside
The parish was probably built in the 13th century from a manorial foundation, the baroque church was probably built in 1744 over a previous Gothic building.
The façade of the high nave and the rounded, recessed choir with a low sacristy annex to the south are simply structured by window-framed windows with recessed arches and a surrounding eaves cornice under the saddle roof that is hipped towards the apse . On the western front there is a painted corner cuboid, in the base of the northern nave wall remains of late medieval masonry can be seen. The iron plate door of the south portal with original fittings dates from the 18th century.
After a fire in 1846, the two-storey tower with a pyramid helmet was renovated. Its façade has corner pilasters and square-frame arched windows on the upper floor .
Inside
The two-bay hall building is joined to the west by the one-bay organ loft in rounded corners and to the east by the one-bay choir with a semicircular apse. Belt arches on pilasters with a high base and cranked , richly profiled entablature support the barrel vault with stitch caps .
In the south wall of the choir, a simple rectangular portal with a wedge and a delicate, grooved frame provides access to the sacristy, which is vaulted with a barrel vault with stitch caps.
Behind a door on the south wall below the gallery, a spiral staircase designed as a spiral staircase leads to the gallery. This wooden staircase has a spindle that is composed of cylindrical parts of the individual wooden steps.
Furnishing
The late baroque high altar dates from the third quarter of the 18th century. It is designed as a sarcophagus altar in a box frame with a reredos , which is flanked by pilasters and columns. The altarpiece with a portrait of St. James the Elder is labeled " J Meichsner 1767 " ( Johann Nepomuk Meichsner ). Figures of Saints Peter , Joachim , Anna and Andreas with putti stand in front of the pilasters and above the side portals . In the extract there is a group of figures of the Trinity with putti on a cloud base. The scroll-supported tabernacle is flanked by figures of angels.
Two simple, similar side altars with sarcophagus and reredos from the third quarter of the 18th century are in the first yoke of the nave. They are decorated with sparse rocailles , the left altar also has putti figures.
The altar panel on the left side altar shows St. Anna Maria teaching reading. To the left of the tabernacle is a statue of St. Joseph with the baby Jesus in his arms, to the right of the tabernacle there is a reliquary .
The altar panel on the left altar shows Saints Sebastian and Rochus . To the left of the tabernacle is a reliquary, to the right of which is a statue of St. Mary with the baby Jesus on her left arm. Mary holds a scepter in her right hand , the child an orb .
The pulpit from the third quarter of the 18th century, with its simple Rocailles decor, is decorated with reliefs of Saints Paul and Andrew on the pulpit . On the sound cover there is a group of figures of Christ Salvator on a cloud base.
The fourteen pictures of the Way of the Cross are marked with " JN Meichsner, 176. ". A votive picture in a baroque frame depicts the Saints Sebastian, Rochus and Rosalia as well as the Holy Trinity and is labeled " 1714, 1748 and 1854 ". A baroque offering box from the late 18th century on a baluster plinth completes the equipment.
organ
The organ was built in 1766 by David Posselt in Vienna as a parapet , from which the five-part prospectus has been preserved. The flat, round, elevated central tower is flanked by two low, narrow and on the outside by two larger harp fields. Gilded acanthus tendrils close the pipe fields at the top. The organ case is decorated with putti making music and is crowned on the profiled cornice by a figure of King David with a harp. In a curved rocaille cartouche under the pipe fields, the eye of providence is shown in a gold-plated triangle with a halo . The instrument has five registers that were renewed in the 20th century. The disposition is:
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Bells
Since the time of the church fire in 1846, the existence of three bells has been known which, due to the lack of a tower, were hung on a scaffold next to the church. The interwar chimes consisted of three bells with the motif of the C major triad (c², e², g²). They had the masses 224, 130 and 66 kg and a diameter of 0.73, 0.60 and 0.51 m. The large and small bells were cast by Karl Kutter in Vienna in 1923. The middle, oldest bell was cast by Heinrich Kohl in Horn (Lower Austria) in 1864. Since Kohl only cast a few copies, hardly any bells from him have survived.
Today the bell tower houses a triple bell made of tin bronze on the same pitch (c², e², g²) as the intermediate bell. The masses (237, 125, 66 kg) and diameters (0.74, 0.597, 0.51 m) are also similar. The two large bells were made in 1949 in the Josef bell foundry in Vienna, the small bell still comes from the previous bell (foundry Karl Kutter in Vienna, 1923).
literature
- Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Lower Austria north of the Danube. Edited by Evelyn Benesch, Bernd Euler-Rolle u. a. Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-7031-0652-2 , p. 171.
Web links
- Website of the municipality of Maissau , accessed on March 19, 2013.
- Eggendorf am Walde on the website of the Archdiocese of Vienna , accessed on March 19, 2013.
- Parish church Eggendorf am Walde in the Austria-Forum , accessed on March 19, 2013.e
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Dehio, p. 171
- ^ Friedrich Schweickhardt: Presentation of the Archduchy of Austria under Ens, Volume 22, accessed on March 19, 2013
Coordinates: 48 ° 32 ′ 38 ″ N , 15 ° 47 ′ 2 ″ E