Eisenstadt-Kleinhöflein parish church
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The Roman Catholic parish church Eisenstadt-Kleinhöflein stands on a hill above the town of Kleinhöflein in Burgenland in the municipality of Eisenstadt in Burgenland . The parish church of St. Veit is part of the Eisenstadt dean's office in the Eisenstadt diocese . The church is a listed building .
history
An older parish was mentioned in a document in 1464. A late Gothic nave was added to the choir (St. Vitus Chapel) from the 15th century. In 1675 a consecration is mentioned in a document. In 1683 the altars were destroyed. The high west tower was built in 1700. The altars and the pulpit were restored in 1960/1963. 1973 was an exterior restoration. After a fire (1975) the church was repainted using traces of paint from an older color.
architecture
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Church exterior
The church standing on a hill is surrounded by a cemetery with a defensive wall. The three-storey tower with two inclined two-tier buttresses at the corners with a stone pointed helmet between four spherical vases was attached to the gable facade. On the south side of the nave is a five-sided stair tower and a baroque porch. The facade has pointed arched windows with tracery, center bar and round arch motifs and buttresses on the choir and nave. The retracted choir with a five-eighth closure has a small annex on the south side and a sacristy annex on the north side. The late Gothic south portal has a multi-fluted pointed arch waistband and shows remains of a colored frame, stonemason's marks and an incised inscription. The west portal in the tower has a straight roof and shows tufts of fruit in the lintel. In the niche above the segment gable is a stone figure of Veit in the cauldron from 1700.
Church interior
The late Gothic tower vestibule has a groin vault. The portal has a cross-shaped profile and cuboid with different surfaces and a stonemason's mark.
The three eastern yokes of the nave have a late Gothic net rib vault with a crown ring. The vault ribs are crossed at the intersections and are connected with five coat of arms-shaped keystones. The pentagonal services have deeply undercut conical capitals. The fourth western yoke with a lancet barrel vault is from the 17th century and then in 1700 the substructure of the former central tower was removed. The three-axis west gallery above a net and star rib vault stands on octagonal pillars and consoles and ends in the middle with a round arch arcade and on the left and right with a pointed arch arcade. On the parapet are nine of the former twelve paintings of the apostles from the 17th century, which were uncovered in 1975.
The broad, round-arched triumphal arch is pushed out of the axis to the south. The two-bay chancel with an apse has a ribbed vault with belts and three rosette keystones, calyx consoles and services in the apse corners.
Furnishing
The high altar from the third quarter of the 18th century has a three-storey mighty structure. The base with sacrificial portals has a curved wall with two protruding free columns on the left and right with a rounded entablature. On the openwork structure with side volutes is a dove in a halo with angels and putti. The altar has four carved figures, outside Peter and Paul, inside Kajetan and Johannes Nepomuk and shows the altar leaf Martyrdom of St. Vitus in a rococo frame.
The left side altar from 1960 to 1963, including baroque parts, bears a remarkable figure of Mary and Child from the 17th century in the middle and Joseph and Simon on the side and the Trinity on the top. The right side altar from the third quarter of the 18th century with a flat wall and pilasters shows the altarpiece Crucifixion and the image of Maria Magdalena in the top and bears small carved figures of Sebastian and Anna with Maria on the side and a large group of figures Pietà in the cafeteria .
The pulpit from the third quarter of the 18th century has divided a round basket with pilasters with flower hangings and angel heads and bears the figures of Salvator and the four evangelists. On the sound cover over a cranked cornice with a coat of arms are carved figures of the four church fathers and a bishop and on the volute crown stands a moving Maria Immaculate.
The font from the second half of the 17th century has a hump-shaped bowl on a pear-shaped baluster. The offering is from 1648. One bell is marked Theresia Scheichel Wien 1798.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Burgenland 1976 . Kleinhöflein in Burgenland, Catholic parish church hl. Veit, pp. 148-149.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 50 ′ 31.6 ″ N , 16 ° 30 ′ 18 ″ E