Parish church of Gramastetten
The parish church of Gramastetten is in the west of the village on the steep slope to Rodl in the market town of Gramastetten in the Urfahr-Umgebung district in Upper Austria . The Roman Catholic parish church consecrated to St. Lawrence of Rome - incorporated into Wilhering Abbey - belongs to the dean's office of Gallneukirchen in the diocese of Linz . The church is a listed building ( list entry ).
history
The parish of Gramastetten was officially founded in 1110 by Ulrich I. von Wilhering and his wife Ottilie on their property. Their son bequeathed the grounds to Wilhering Abbey . In 1240 Frederick II, the pugnacious, gave the monastery the patronage rights of the parish. Wilhering has been occupying the parish since 1400.
A previous building was consecrated in 1110. The tower was built in the second half of the 14th century. Foundations for a new building were established in 1444 and 1451. Construction activity lasted from 1483 to 1516, due to the stone carving marks a connection with the construction of the Ottensheim parish church was established, the nave was mainly built in the fourth quarter of the 15th century, the choir in the first quarter of the 16th century, the sacristy in the first third of the 16th century. The oratorio was created in the third third of the 18th century. The Mount of Olives Chapel was built in 1830/1840. The spire was put on in 1847. The porch was added in the fourth quarter of the 19th century. A general renovation took place in 1883 under pastor Father Rudolf Peyrer with the installation of today's neo-Gothic furnishings.
In 1982/1983 the church and the parsonage were renovated under pastor and consistorial councilor old dean Father Augustin Brandstetter. A morgue was set up in the lower church and an electric church bell was attached. The church also got heating, the roof was re-covered and the rectory was converted into a kindergarten, the Pfarrcaritas kindergarten. An additional Pfarrcaritas kindergarten was built on Pöstlingberg in 1978, which was taken over by the market town of Gramastetten in autumn 1998.
architecture
The broad, block-shaped nave with buttresses, which are spur-shaped above the waterfall, has two-lane tracery windows, these were renovated from 1883 to 1890, the tracery was created according to designs by the architect and builder Otto Schirmer .
The remarkable late Gothic interior is impressive due to the room and vault design with their detailed shapes. The three-aisled, four-bay hall longhouse contains the massive tower in the southeast and the mighty tower protruding slightly on the southern front. The south aisle is therefore only two and a half bays. The south aisle and west yoke contain remarkable galleries, which give the nave the impression of a two-aisled three-bay hall with a gallery extension, compare the hospital church in Bad Leonfelden . The net-rib vaults with parallel ribs over octagonal pillars show star formations under the galleries. The three-bay choir with a polygonal connection has a dense, axially aligned loop rib vault. There is a small Gothic church below the choir. In the southern corner of the choir is the sacristy extension with a geometrical net rib vault of the latest Gothic, above it on the first floor is an oratory.
Furnishing
Today's church furnishings, a historicist redesign in the Gothic style, counts the art historian Bernhard Prokisch among the most consistent and of the highest quality in Upper Austria. Altars, pulpit and both choir stalls come from the Josef Kepplinger altar construction workshop in Ottensheim . The figures come from Josef Ignaz Sattler .
The choir stalls in the gallery contain a curiosity caricature of the German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck in the form of a devil's face in Gothic style.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Mühlviertel 2003 . Gramastetten, parish church of St. Laurentius, with floor plan, rectory, pp. 206–209.
- Bernhard Prokisch: Parish Church and Calvary Church in Gramastetten. A guide to the monuments. Linz 1986, 29 pages.
- Leopold Schiller: On the history of the parish Gramastetten. In: Contributions to the regional and folklore of the Mühlviertel. Vol. 13, 1929, pp. 56-221.
- Thomas Schwierz (author), Gramastetten working group for small monuments. Herbert Ginterseder, Herbert Rechberger, Adolf Lehner (eds.): 900 years of Gramastetten history, present and outlook of a Mühlviertel parish. 3rd volume of the Gramastettner Heimatbuch, Gramastetten 2009, pp. 578–676.
Web links
- Web presence of the parish on dioezese-linz.at
Individual evidence
- ↑ Schwierz 2009, picture and text on p. 607.
Coordinates: 48 ° 22 ′ 52.9 " N , 14 ° 11 ′ 13.4" E