Gobelsburg parish church
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The Gobelsburg parish church is in a dominant position above the town of Gobelsburg in the municipality of Langenlois in the Krems-Land district in Lower Austria . The Roman Catholic parish church consecrated to the feast of the birth of the Virgin Mary - incorporated into Zwettl Abbey - belongs to the Krems dean's office in the diocese of St. Pölten . The church and the former fortified cemetery are under monument protection ( list entry ).
history
In a document, in 1219 a parish emerged from a lordship. Princely in the 15th century and at the same time a former pilgrimage site. From 1746/1747 the parish church was incorporated into Zwettl Abbey. From 1884 to 1888 there was a renovation.
architecture
The Baroque-style Gothic basilica with a baroque west tower is surrounded by a former defensive wall which is reinforced in the south by powerful supporting pillars.
- Church exterior
The three-aisled nave with lower aisles under a high gable roof. The former pillar basilica built before the middle of the 14th century with its own arcade of light as a round window was converted into a staggered church during the Baroque renovation in 1749/1750. The south aisle has a choir with a five-eighth end with pointed arched windows and buttresses. A neo-Gothic portal porch was added to the south in 1886. The north aisle shows baroque lunette windows. The one-yoke main choir with a five-eighth end and buttresses has on the eastern side of the polygon an exit to a crypt with a shoulder arch gate with a relief-based heraldic shield with the year 1506 as 15VI. On the east side of the choir on a console in the north of the choir there is a two-storey sacristy extension from 1749/1750. The three-storey tower from the 18th century presented in the west with corner pilasters and cornices and clock gables has an onion helmet with a lantern. The spiral staircase tower in front of the tower previously served the residents of the castle as a gallery entrance.
Outside the church there are tombstones: Heraldic tombstone Salomon Pfefferkorn in a scroll frame 1573. Heraldic tombstone Eva Leisber von Camern and Son Gerhard 1578 and 1571. Figural fragmented tombstone with relief mercy seat and St. Anthony of Padua around the middle of the 18th century. Crypt slabs in the churchyard wall, Father Joachim Haggenmüller 1788 and Father Augustinus Kollmann 1793.
- Church interior
In the 17th century, a barrel cap barrel on consoles was pulled into the three-aisled, four-bay nave with a basilica cross-section with pointed arch arcades on eight-sided pillars. The organ loft in the width of the central nave, vaulted under the ribs on eight-sided pillars, was heavily renovated in 1841. The south aisle has ribbed vaults on chalice-shaped approaches and keystones with rosettes in relief before the mid-14th century. In the polygon of the side choir there is a sacrament niche with a three-pass frame from the middle of the 14th century. The north aisle has groin vaults, the easternmost yoke has been separated and changed and vaulted.
The triumphal arch was expanded like a segmental arch in the middle of the 18th century. The single-nave, single-bay main choir was vaulted in the middle of the 18th century, with the gothic polygon inside being changed to a semicircular apse. The sacristy attached to the north has a flat ceiling, the portal and the niches show rich marble stucco from the middle of the 18th century. In the southern portal vestibule is a neo-Gothic ribbed vault with the Zwettl monastery coat of arms.
Frescoes in the reveals of the two central southern arcade arches show a Man of Sorrows rising from the sarcophagus with Kuenringer and Capell coats of arms around the middle of the 14th century, Bartholomew wears the skin stripped from him next to donor figurines, in the background aediculanic with three-pass and pinnacle coronation by the Master of Thunau around the middle of the 14th century.
Frescoes above the entrance in the south aisle show the crucifixion around 1420/1430, the red preliminary drawing is almost completely preserved, the left group with Mary and John and the mourning women, the right group with professing centurions and soldiers and donors kneeling to the side.
The ceiling fresco allegory of salvation in the choir was created in the early 19th century.
Furnishing
Four Romanesque relief fragments from the second half of the 12th century are walled into the triumphal arch: a personified Paradise River, two figures in side view, probably as the donor couple, the left female figure has a long robe with a wrap and a headscarf, the right male figure with a short tunic presents a rectangular object, probably as a chapel model, furthermore Adam and Eve with raised right hands with the tree of knowledge and intertwined vegetation in all stages of growth with bud, flower, withered flower and fruit.
The high altar from 1753 is fitted into the apse with a pilaster-structured structure made of marble stucco with a canopy altar in front on expansive volutes with acanthus tendrils. The altar figures are partly by the sculptor Jakob Christoph Schletterer in 1753. The essay group Trinity with angels and the statue of Mary and Child were created by the sculptor Hermann Klotz in 1888.
The organ was built by Franz Capek in 1895. Hans calls a bell 1410. Ferdinand Vötterlechner mentions a bell 1750.
Inside there are gravestones: coat of arms gravestone Carl Carlshofen 1642, priest gravestone Johann Kögel 1708.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria north of the Danube 1990 . Gobelsburg, parish Langenlois, parish church Mariae Birth, with floor plan, rectory. Pp. 282-284.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 27 '39.4 " N , 15 ° 41' 48.2" E