Parish church Enzersdorf im Thale
The parish church Enzersdorf im Thale is a south-facing Roman Catholic church in Enzersdorf im Thale, a village in the municipality of Hollabrunn (Lower Austria). The neo-Gothic building with a west tower stands east of the town center and is dedicated to St. Mark .
The church belongs to the Hollabrunn dean's office in the vicariate Unter dem Manhartsberg and is a listed building .
history
Little is known about the early history of Enzersdorf, because all older records were destroyed by fires in Enzersdorf Castle during the two Turkish invasions of 1529 and 1683 and by a major fire in 1569. There was probably a wooden church in Enzersdorf since the 14th century, which burned down during the Turkish siege in 1529. This assumption is supported by the fact that a new church was built in the 30s of the 16th century, which was probably completed in 1535 because the baptismal font that has been preserved bears a coat of arms with this date.
The church belonged to the parish Eggendorf im Thale until the parish was founded and its history largely corresponds to that of the church there. In 1783, the Enzersdorf parish was founded and, like the Eggendorf parish, incorporated into the Schottenstift .
The current church was built between 1895 and 1897 by Josef Schmalzhofer .
Building description
Outside
Stepped buttresses as well as a surrounding cordon cornice and pointed arched windows are located on the nave with a high gable roof and on the slightly lower, recessed choir with a five- eighth end. On the north side the front is pierced by a flat arch portal marked Abbot Ernestus Hauswirth 1897 in a pointed arch frame with coat of arms and foundation inscription. The five-storey southwest tower with a stair tower rises in the corner of the choir. It has pointed arched windows on the two basement floors and on the bell floor, slotted windows above and a pyramid helmet .
Inside
The nave is a high hall with neo-Gothic reticulated rib vaults on consoles. A flat arch opens the three-part organ gallery to the church. The transition from the nave to the choir is formed by a pointed triumphal arch to the choir, which is closed off by a folding vault .
Furnishing
Most of the neo-Gothic furnishings date from the time the church was built.
The high altar and the two side altars have tracery frames and are made in the same way. The altar sheet of the high altar, which is flanked by two brass candelabra , shows the church patron , on the altar sheets of the side altars St. Joseph is depicted on the left and Maria Immaculate on the right .
The Renaissance - baptismal font shows the emblem of Enzersdorfer rule and is labeled "1535". The neo-Gothic pulpit is made in the same way as the altars.
On the north wall under the gallery is the grave monument of Barbara Enzersdorf († 1570) and a marble relief with side half-columns and obelisks. It represents the victory of the risen Christ over death and the devil and comes from the Protestant era of the parish. Additional features include two terracotta panels with coats of arms reliefs from the second half of the 16th century and two coat of arms tombstones of Barbara Herberstein († 1596) and Maximiliana Ederin, née Countess Sinzendorf († 1759).
organ
The organ was created by Franz Strommer in 1899.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ 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).
- ↑ Diploma thesis Anita Wondra, Chapter 7.2 “Herrschaft Enzersdorf im Thale”, p. 173, accessed on October 19, 2014
- ↑ Diploma thesis Anita Wondra p. 183
- ↑ "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. 195
Coordinates: 48 ° 35 ′ 9.7 " N , 16 ° 14 ′ 43.2" E