Parish church Grünbach am Schneeberg
The Roman Catholic parish church Grünbach am Schneeberg stands in a walled cemetery in Grünbach am Schneeberg in the market town of Grünbach am Schneeberg in Lower Austria . The parish church of St. Michael belongs to the dean's office in Neunkirchen in the Archdiocese of Vienna . The church is a listed building .
history
The parish church was mentioned in a document in 1544. In the Turkish Wars, the church was badly damaged in 1532, slightly damaged in 1683, and the damage was repaired in 1726. The church belonged to the Archdiocese of Salzburg until 1783, to the Diocese of Wiener Neustadt from 1783 to 1785 , and from 1785 to the Archdiocese of Vienna. The first half of the 15th century was assumed for the original construction of the church, followed by renovations in the 2nd half of the 16th century and in the 1st half of the 18th century. In 1864 the west gallery was built. The triumphal arch and the roof turret were renewed in 1907. 1979 was a restoration.
architecture
- Church exterior
The simple, uniform church structure has pointed arch windows on the south front of the nave and on the choir, which is structured with buttresses. On the northern front of the nave and choir, single-storey extensions with different eaves heights were built after 1945 as a sacristy, bell chamber and confessional. In the west and south there is a late Gothic shoulder portal with partially chipped arches under porches, which were built after 1945.
The statue of Christ Salvator around 1950/1960 stands at the entrance to the church.
- Church interior
In the second half of the 16th century, the originally three-bay nave was given a vault with lancet caps with trimmed ridges with noses, whereby the yoke division was smoothed. Four keystones or rib crosses are walled into the crown of the vault. Chipped services and heavily plastered capitals can still be seen on the nave walls. The west gallery is arched under with a square vault and below with three irregular round arches on octagonal pillars open to the nave. The retracted round-arched triumphal arch shows itself in baroque form on delicate plaster pilasters. The yoke division in the choir has also been smoothed and now shows a ridge vault with diamond formations. The original five-eighth closure was transformed into a three-eighth closure.
Wall paintings show St. Christophorus. The painting on the triumphal arch Tondo with Holy Spirit Dove was created with the painter Günther Scherz around 1960. Instead of the high altar there is a mosaic Archangel Michael by Artur Heche around 1945. The mosaics Christ as Risen and the Way of the Cross (1942), Pietà ( 1943) created Schuller. Paul Maderbacher and Martin Fasching (1947) created the mosaic of a half-figure representation of Saints Barbara and Leonhard. The stained glass, ornamental in the nave, figural in the choir with Sebastian, Christ, Florian, Sacrament of Baptism, were created in 1907.
Furnishing
A side altar as a three-part retable by Heinrich Ludwig (1944) bears a statue of Mary and Child flanked by reliefs Theresia of the Child Jesus and Judas Thaddäus and shows the relief of purgatory on the predella. Alois Einspinner (1895) created the neo-Gothic hanging pulpit. A monumental crucifix is from the 2nd half of the 18th century. The baptismal font with a round bowl was created by Karl Holey (1943).
The organ in a neo-Gothic case was built by Franz Ullmann (1864). Christof Packendorff (1745) cast a bell.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria south of the Danube 2003 . Grünbach am Schneeberg, parish church St. Michael, pp. 610-611.
Coordinates: 47 ° 47 ′ 51.1 " N , 15 ° 59 ′ 11.8" E