Engstetten parish church
The parish church of St. John the Baptist is a Roman Catholic church in the town of Engstetten in the market town of St. Peter in der Au in the Amstetten district in Lower Austria .
history
Around 1110 the church was an own parish church of the former Garsten Benedictine Abbey and became a branch church of the Wolfsbach parish church under the patronage of the Seitenstetten Benedictine Abbey in 1367 at the latest and became a vicariate church in 1647 and a parish church incorporated in 1808. The current church was built around 1500 on the Romanesque predecessor church. In 1960, a round apse foundation was excavated on the triumphal arch. The interior of the church was restored and redesigned in 1960 and the exterior was restored in 1996.
architecture
The parish church in the southern part of Engstetten stands on sloping terrain in a cemetery. The late Gothic hall church has an exposed west tower, a retracted choir and later additions. The uniformly plastered church building shows the original late Gothic coloring from the end of the 15th century. The gable roof is covered with plain tiles. There are pointed arched windows between the buttresses, some with water hammer. In the south, the windows show the remains of a late Gothic profiled vestment . During the restoration of the nave in 1960, the existing windows were extended downwards. In the north at the basket arch portal with the name 1779 a baroque portal vestibule with a half hipped roof was added. In the south is an arched portal with the uncovered name 1547 with a door leaf from the first half of the 19th century. The late Gothic choir is windowed on the sloping sides of the apse and shows under the eaves a painted late Gothic pointed arch frieze with stylized lilies and twigs and plaster cuts of the windows, which were uncovered in 1996. In the northern corner of the choir, a protruding sacristy with stone-walled windows with plug-in lattice was added under a roof in 1770. The sacristy has an arched portal in the west with an original door leaf. The massive, compact, late Gothic - Romanesque core - has plug-in grilles in slotted hatches and arched sound windows and above it a clock floor with a neighbors' lantern dome from 1841.
The interior of the nave around 1500 has an almost square two-aisled hall with two central octagonal columns arranged one behind the other, vaulted with a networked rib vault on consoles with remarkable vaulting with a two-bay wall structure and a three-bay column sequence with fan-like ribs. The hall-wide west gallery over a pointed arched lancet vault with plastered cross ridges from the 2nd half of the 16th century was pulled out over two basket-arch arcades in 1869 and provided with a wooden parapet in 1960. In the west wall of the hall is a late Gothic shoulder portal axially with an original iron plate door leaf to the groin-vaulted tower ground floor. On the ground floor of the tower is a coat of arms grave slab for Hans Hofman 1619. The chamfered late Gothic triumphal arch is slightly drawn into the choir. The two-bay choir with a 3/8 end around 1500 is lower than the nave and vaulted with a mesh rib vault on consoles. At the apex of the choir is a naive expressionist wall painting crucifixion group by the painter Lydia Roppolt (1960).
In the north of the choir is the entrance to the sacristy with a barrel vault with a pair of stitch caps. The portal vestibule in the north has a flat roof. The main portal is a late Gothic barbed shoulder portal with an original door leaf with a lock in tendrils.
Furnishing
Larger-than-life crucifix from the 1st quarter of the 16th century. Canvas painting of the Madonna in the ear of ears as a copy based on a late Gothic model from the 17th century. Mater dolorosa statue from the 2nd quarter of the 18th century. Former high altar sheet Baptism of Christ by the painter Martin Johann Schmidt (1792). Neighboring Stations of the Cross from the 1st half of the 19th century. Baptismal font and church stalls from 1960. The people's altar and tabernacle were adapted from the former high altar in 1973. Ambo from 1973. Nativity scene with 20 figures around 1900.
Organ from the organ builder Gebr. Mauracher (1952).
Churchyard
The churchyard is partly enclosed by a wall that was renewed in 1891. Basket arch portal between pilasters in the north from 1779. War memorial with a relief pillar Christ with a dying soldier by the sculptor Kunibert Zinner (1962). In the south of the churchyard, a funeral hall was built in 1997/1998 according to the plans of the architect Peter Pazmandy.
Rectory
The rectory in the west of the parish church was built in 1804/1805 according to the plans of the architect Johann Stökler, received some later changes and was restored in 1993. The two-story building under a hipped roof with plain tiles has a banded ground floor and on the upper floor a trickle plaster and windows with monastery lattice boxes. The former kitchen is barrel vaulted. To the north of the rectory is a partially modified former farm building from 1864.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria south of the Danube 2003 . St. Peter in der Au, parish church hl. John the Baptist, pp. 1967–1968.
Coordinates: 48 ° 4 ′ 26.6 " N , 14 ° 36 ′ 56.9" E