Parish church Enzersfeld in the Weinviertel

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Parish Church of the Birth of Mary

The Roman Catholic parish church of Enzersfeld in the Weinviertel is located in the southwest of the municipality of Enzersfeld in the Weinviertel in the Korneuburg district in Lower Austria . It is dedicated to the feast of the Birth of Mary and belongs to the dean's office in Korneuburg in the vicariate Unter dem Manhartsberg of the Archdiocese of Vienna . The building is a listed building .

Location description

The church is in the southwest of the village on the main street (Kirchenplatz 1).

history

Enzersfeld belonged to the parish of St.-Veit Klein-Engersdorf from 1343 to 1783, in 1783 it was raised to its own parish and incorporated into the Schottenstift in Vienna .

East-southeast view of the parish church

The former chapel was expanded into a church in 1681 and enlarged again in 1872, as the church was again too small, it was decided to build a new one. The current church was built in the years 1908–1909 over the old church, so that services could continue to be held during the construction period. Josef Schmalzhofer was the architect and builder, and Richard Jordan designed the interior design .

Interior renovations

The interior of the parish church was completely renovated in 2016 and the original condition from 1909 was restored. When the wall paintings were covered during the interior renovation in 1959, this was done out of necessity to repair the war damage from the Second World War . The renovation in the summer of 2016 brought many surprises to light: The multicolored ribbons, the snails, paradise flowers and stars, the setting of the vaults in old pink and light blue. The original artistic design emerged behind the wall paint.

architecture

Interior after renovation in 2016

Church exterior

The building is a romanticizing hall church with a corner tower and aisles . The main facade is designed as a stepped gable facade . Above the mighty arched portal niche is a row of statues in a column arcade. They represent Maria Immaculata , St. Benedict and St. Leopold . In the gable are coupled arched windows . On the south-west corner there is a facade tower with arched sound windows and a pyramid helmet . In the middle of the nave flanks are protruding, two-part transepts with buttresses and thermal bath windows under the roofs on both sides . South side are Portalädikulen grown. The retracted rectangular choir has arched windows. Above it is a hipped roof . A two-storey sacristy annex adjoins the choir on the south side .

Church interior

The church is a mighty hall building with double, spacious transepts on both sides, which are connected to one another by pillar arcades like aisles. The wide main barrel is blended with the transverse barrels of the transepts, which are stored on lintel beams. To the west is the organ gallery above the closed substructure of the portal hall. The retracted triumphal arch separates the choir from the nave. There is a barrel vault in the rectangular choir.

Furnishing

High altar and left side altar of the parish church in 2015

The secession style furnishings come from the construction period. The altarpiece of the high altar shows the scene "The Birth of Mary". The picture of Maria Schöffmann hangs in a profiled round arch frame on the back wall of the choir. The free-standing cafeteria with a tabernacle structure and back wall stands between two sacrificial passage portals .

The two side altars on the triumphal arch are three-axis niche structures that are dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and St. Joseph are consecrated. The top figure of the pulpit represents the "good shepherd". Like the chairs and the chandeliers, it comes from the construction period. The baroque side altar was once the high altar in the previous church. It consists of a concave column retable with a volute extension and dates from the third quarter of the 18th century. The altar panel shows “The Birth of Mary” and was made by the painter Hemmerlein in 1853. The baroque side figures depict Saint Sebastian and Saint Rochus .

The limestone Stations of the Cross were created in 1909 by the sculptor Ludwig Schadler . In the church there is also a crucifix from the first half of the 18th century as well as pictures of "Herz Jesu" and one of "Herz Mariä" by Josef Kastner from 1873 .

organ

West gallery with organ

The organ, built in 1909 by the Viennese organ building company Johann M. Kauffmann , has 612 pipes, 2 manuals and pedal, mechanical action and cone shutter , the console is free-standing. In 1970 the winch was fitted with an electric fan, but the foot-operated scoop bellows were retained.

The organ has 12 registers with the following disposition:

I Manual C – f 3
1. Bourdon 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. viola 8th'
4th Darling Covered 8th'
5. Octav 4 ′
6th mixture 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
II manual
7th Philomela 8th'
8th. Salicional 8th'
9. Fugara 4 ′
Pedal C – d 1
10. Sub bass 16 ′
11. Octave bass 8th'
12. V. cello 8th'

Bells

Bell chamber

When the church was built in 1909, four new bells were purchased; these were confiscated and melted down during the First World War. After the war, 3 new bells were hung in the tower, the largest bell (1090 kg es´) was not replaced. During the Second World War, the bells were drawn in again, today's 3 bells were cast in 1949 by the bell foundry Josef Pfundner in Vienna-Favoriten.

  • The large bell with a diameter of 100 cm has the tone g´, weighs 600 kg and bears the inscription: “Dedicated to the memory of the parishioners of Enzersfeld and Königsbrunn who died in the two world wars”.
  • The middle bell with a diameter of 85 cm has the tone b´, weighs 400 kg and bears the inscription: "Dedicated to the memory of the parishioners of Enzersfeld and Königsbrunn who died in the two world wars".
  • The small bell with a diameter of 65 cm has the tone es´´, weighs 160 kg and bears the inscription: “Dedicated by Matthäus Schwöller”.

literature

  • Dehio manual . The art monuments of Austria: Lower Austria. North of the Danube. Enzersfeld in the Weinviertel. Parish Church of the Birth of Mary. Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.), Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-7031-0585-2 , p. 196.

Web links

www.pfarre-enzersfeld.at

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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).
  2. ^ Chronicle of the parish Enzersfeld, 1st volume 1783–1900.
  3. ↑ Church guide "Art Nouveau in the Weinviertel" of the parish church "Maria Birth" in Enzersfeld.

Coordinates: 48 ° 21 ′ 40.8 "  N , 16 ° 25 ′ 27.8"  E