Gerolding parish church
The Roman Catholic parish church Gerolding is located in Gerolding in the market town of Dunkelsteinerwald in the Melk district in Lower Austria . The parish church of St. John the Baptist belongs to the Melk deanery in the diocese of St. Pölten . The parish church and the cemetery are under monument protection .
history
A defense system was adopted around the year 1000. In a document in 1165, the parish law was granted by Marquard von Schönbühel. A chapel existed in a document in 1176. In 1387 the parish was transferred to the Carthusian Monastery of Aggsbach by the Maissauer . The choir was probably consecrated in 1422. An exterior restoration was carried out in 1999/2000.
architecture
- Church exterior
The Gothic hall church with a north tower - surrounded by a cemetery - stands in a prominent position on a chain of hills dominating the entire area. It shows a leveled plateau with an eastern lining wall with remains of a curtain wall. The - essentially Romanesque - early Gothic nave has a deeply drawn roof, which ends in the west over a sloping, windowless gable wall with a characteristic hipped roof. There are two Romanesque eaves on the two western corners. The north-facing porch around 1900 is neo-Gothic and includes a late Gothic rectangular portal and a Maria Lourdes chapel around 1900. Newer additions on the south side under a half-hipped roof and pent roof include an exposed early Gothic arched window with clover-leaf tracery behind it.
The north tower hardly rises above the ridge height of the nave. Above the square tower ground floor with a Gothic arched portal are two Gothic octagonal floors with notch windows and baroque sound windows and an onion dome.
The narrowly proportioned retracted Gothic choir from the early 15th century with the same ridge height and higher eaves shows a Gothic eaves stone in the southwest. The choir has a strongly pressed polygonal end with two-lane tracery windows and in the north a remarkable three-lane tracery window with a horizontal bar and an upper lancet. On a buttress there is a badly weathered inscription with the possible writing Pastor Hans and 1422. To the north of the choir, the old sacristy is built under a pent roof.
- Church interior
The two-bay nave under a lancet barrel vault above strong pillars with beams was built in the 18th century. The baroque west gallery stands three arches over pillars. The retracted pointed Gothic triumphal arch was later dated to 1310. The single-bay choir with a raised cross rib vault over bundles and round services, whereby the three-eighth closure appears as a five-eighth closure due to the rib construction in the vault. On the north side the choir has a sacrament niche and on the south side a large three-part session niche with strong cloverleaf tracery from the end of the 14th and beginning of the 15th century.
In the nave to the north, a wall painting from the beginning of the 17th century was uncovered in 1955 and restored in 1986, depicting the crowned Mary with child and a male saint with a cross , each on a base with an illegible inscription. The ceiling of the nave shows the painting Baptism of Christ and Adoration of the Shepherds by the painter Maria Sturm (1955).
Furnishing
The high altar was supplemented with acanthus leaves in the 17th century and partly transferred here as a former side altar of the Aggsbach Charterhouse in 1785 and restored in 1976. The middle part from the first half of the 18th century is a column retable with a top with a cartouche with the year 1864. The altarpiece of the Holy Tribe on metal is from the 19th century. The angel statues around 1700 were ascribed to the Schwanthal School .
The structurally identical side altars as a column retable with a volute top were created around the middle of the 18th century and were restored in 1985/1986. The right side altar shows the altar sheet St. Sebastian.
The late Gothic standing pulpit with a polygonal basket and pillars with framework is from the second half of the 15th century. The sound cover is baroque.
The Stations of the Cross are from the middle of the 19th century.
There are lecture flags with the images Trinity, St. Nun, Maria Immaculata, Antonius, around 1900.
The organ was built by Max Jakob (1910).
literature
- Alfred Fischeneder-Meiseneder: The architecture of the Gothic in the east of Austria. Studies of sacred buildings in the 14th and 15th centuries with a focus on the period around 1400 . Diss. University of Vienna 2016, pp. 86–87.
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria south of the Danube 2003 . Gerolding, parish church of St. Johannes d. T., with floor plan, Pfarrhof, pp. 523-524.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 15 ′ 1.1 ″ N , 15 ° 25 ′ 20 ″ E