Parish church Eggendorf im Thale
The parish church Eggendorf im Thale is a Roman Catholic church in Eggendorf im Thale, a village in the municipality of Hollabrunn (Lower Austria). It stands north of the town center and is the only church in Austria dedicated to St. Afra .
The church belongs to the Hollabrunn dean's office in the vicariate Unter dem Manhartsberg and is a listed building .
Parish history
The parish was founded around the middle of the 11th century on the occasion of the canonization of Afra von Augsburg in 1064.
The first documentary mention was made in September 1135 in a document in which Margrave Leopold III. The saint renounced the tithe in the district of 13 Babenberg own parishes , including "Echindorfh", in favor of the diocesan bishop of Passau . After Austria was elevated to duchy in 1156, Heinrich II. Jasomirgott assigned the parishes of Pulkau and Eggendorf to the new Benedictine Abbey of Our Lady of the Scots in Vienna as a foundation endowment. Since then, the parish was incorporated into the Schottenstift until 1995 .
During the Reformation , Eggendorf was Protestant from 1565 and in 1571 and 1580 Protestant synods were held in Eggendorf . After the Counter Reformation , which began in Eggendorf in 1604, the parish became Catholic again.
Since 1995, the parish has left the Schottenstift and is administered by the Archdiocese of Vienna. The pastoral care was entrusted to the Benedictines of the Benedictine Priory St. Josef in Maria Roggendorf .
Building description
Outside
The church consists of a neo-Gothic nave with a mighty hipped roof, a Gothic choir and a south tower, which is essentially Gothic. The nave was built by Karl Bösig between 1897 and 1899. The nave and the recessed, polygonal choir from the 14th century have Gothic buttresses with water hammer and pointed arched windows.
In the south is a squat choir tower with a pyramid helmet over a surrounding eaves cornice and a sacristy arch with pointed arched windows from the end of the 19th century. To the left of the entrance to the sacristy is an oculus and below the eaves are three four-pass hatches . In the north, a side chapel from the 14th century with two-lane tracery windows adjoins the choir. The west facade has a flat, gabled center risalit .
Inside
The single-nave, three-bay nave has a mesh vault on consoles . The gallery rests on a segmented vault. A high, pointed triumphal arch forms the transition from the nave to the one-bay choir with a five-eighth end . The choir has a ribbed vault on heavily reworked consoles from the 14th century with carved depictions of animals, foliage and masks.
The north side chapel with three-eighth closure has a rib vault with a relief, round keystone . The sacristy is vaulted with a cap .
Furnishing
The uniform, neo-Gothic furnishings of the church come from the time the nave was built.
The high altar with aedicula and tabernacle structure from around 1900 has an altar sheet on which Saint Afra is depicted. It is labeled "Josef Neugebauer 1843". The southern side altar is designed in a similar way with an altar panel showing the Holy Family . The neo-Gothic pulpit, an Easter candlestick and the pews from the same era complete the furnishings.
In the north choir chapel is an altar with two angel figures, stations of the cross and console statues of Christ, Mary and Antony of Padua.
organ
The organ was created by Franz Strommer in 1896.
literature
- Anita Wondra: Langaztal - The Lange Thal in the western Weinviertel from the perspective of settlement and domination . Thesis. University of Vienna, Vienna 2008, Chapter 6: The mother parish Eggendorf im Thale against the background of the parish organization in the Passau diocese , p. 126 ff . ( univie.ac.at [PDF; 23.2 MB ; accessed on June 17, 2017]).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Walter Johann Fittner: "Sacral historical outline Eggendorf im Thale", accessed on October 17, 2014
- ^ Lower Austria - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. ( Memento of May 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) . Federal Monuments Office , as of June 26, 2015 (PDF).
- ^ Parish Eggendorf on the website of the Archdiocese of Vienna, accessed on October 17, 2014
- ↑ "Dehio Handbook. 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. 169
- ↑ a b “Dehio Handbook. 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. 170
Coordinates: 48 ° 34 ′ 55.8 " N , 16 ° 10 ′ 20.1" E