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The Roman Catholic parish church Groß ( patronage : St. Veit ) is a hall church with a Romanesque and Baroque style with a high Gothic south tower and Gothic chapels. It is located in the center of Groß and belongs to the Hollabrunn dean's office . The first church consecration and elevation to the parish church was mentioned in a document in 1141.
Exterior
From the Romanesque core of the nave, corner cubes up to the original height and a rounded, beveled portal wall on the south side have been preserved. In the 17th century the nave was raised in the baroque style. It has volute gables with triangular points from the first half of the 18th century above the facade and a baroque portal porch. In the north there are Gothic extensions under a pent roof , in the east a square chapel from the first half of the 15th century. The chapel has baroque rectangular windows and was extended by two bays towards the west in the second construction phase. This extension has lancet windows and a four-pass hatch as well as a grooved portal from the 18th century. On the south side there is a Gothic, two-bay sacristy or original chapel extension under a pent roof. The retracted, two-bay choir with five-eighth end was built around 1400 and has stepped buttresses with gable and tracery panels , pointed arch windows and a former opening to the crypt in the apex of the base. In the northern corner, the choir is enlarged by a baroque installation from the third quarter of the 18th century. The south tower by the choir, which was started around 1400, has a walled-up pointed arch window, rectangular and pointed arched slit windows, baroque round soundproof windows and clock gable as well as a pyramid helmet.
Interior
A simple long house connects to a groin-vaulted vestibule, where the original Romanesque construction height can still be recognized by a recess on the west wall. The nave has a grooved flat ceiling from the end of the 17th century with a late-baroque stucco mirror above a baroque mound above a strong cornice. The simple organ gallery was built in around 1900. The retracted pointed arch, chamfered triumphal arch was built around 1400. The north wall of the nave has two pressed round arched arcades to the side aisle-like adjoining rooms, the eastern square room around 1400 is a groin-vaulted chapel with a keystone above descending blades. The two-bay choir with a five-eighth end has a cross-ribbed vault, which in parallel lined up lower blades in nose-shaped decorated chamfers pierces the surrounding coffin cornice and closes the top with relief keystones of the eagle , the Lamb of God and the bust of Christ . In the first choir yoke on the right is a profiled sacristy portal with shoulder arch from 1500 with a studded wooden gate and on the left a baroque portal from the 18th century with a diamond-shaped double wooden gate. At the end of the choir is a session niche with a vegetal border and a tracery veil from around 1400 and a small pointed arch niche with a three-pass arch. The floor of the church is covered with Kelheim slabs. The sacristy on the tower ground floor has a nose-shaped offset ribbed vault with a keystone rosette from around 1400, the adjoining extension has a two-bay, beveled, ribbed vault from the 15th century. A northern extension with a spear cap barrel for the stairs to the pulpit is from the second quarter of the 18th century. The stained glass of Saints Anna and Markus was created by Eduard Kratzmann in 1893 and Saint George and Regina was created by E. Zseller in 1910.
Furnishing
The high altar with a tabernacle was created at the end of the 18th century. He has a marbled, neo-classical columns aedicule with triangle pediment and attic tower and shows the altarpiece the image martyrdom of St. Veit . The chapel altar has a carved crucifix from 1700 and an adoration angel from the 18th century. The round pulpit from the third quarter of the 18th century is furnished with evangelist seats and reliefs of the church fathers. The sound cover is crowned with the figure of the Good Shepherd . A carved figure of St. John Nepomuk comes from the second half of the 18th century. The late Gothic polygonal font is Gothic. The communion bench from the second quarter of the 18th century is made of sandstone. The stalls are neo-baroque. The Stations of the Cross are from the second half of the 19th century. The lecture cross is from the 19th century.
The organ with the case in the neo-renaissance style was built by Franz Capek around 1900. There is a red marble grave slab Gelabrunner 1503 with a relief of the coat of arms.
Bells
| No. | Surname | Nominal |
Weight (kg) |
Diameter (cm) |
Casting year | Caster |
| 1 | Oldest bell | 22.4 | 1634 | David Wesnitzer | ||
| 2 | Steel bell | 1920 | ||||
| 3 | Bronze bell | ais | 396 | 1950 | St. Florian | |
| 4th | Bronze bell | f sharp | 793 | 1950 | St. Florian |
History of bells
Before 1917
Before the First World War , the Groß parish church had four bells:
- Bell with the inscription " Davit Wesnizer in Vienna gos me in 1634". This bell has been preserved and is used as a train bell .
- Bell with a weight of 131 kg , a diameter of 61 cm , the inscription " Ulrich Scheichel poured me in Vienna anno 1753" and the portrait of Saints John the Baptist and Sebastian .
- Bell with a weight of 230 kg, the inscription "In Znaim anno 1811 Anton Aufheimer poured me" and four reliefs: a crucifix and the saints Florian , Vitus and Donatus .
- Bell with a weight of 62 kg, a diameter of 49 cm, the inscription “Mich poured Barth. Kaffl, kk court bell founder in Vienna 1848 ”and a representation of the Archangel Michael .
On May 24, 1917, the two younger bells were removed by the builder Alois Geist from Theras and used for war purposes. They were evacuated on Whit Monday, May 28, 1917 before the service. Four crowns were paid for one kilogram of bell metal and placed in a bell fund, which was to be used to buy new bells after the war.
1917 to 1945
To replace the two bells melted down in 1917, the community had a steel bell made by a clockmaker in Wullersdorf in 1920 , so that the church now had three bells.
On February 26, 1942, the bell from 1753 was confiscated as a "metal donation by the German people" without financial consideration, removed by the Neumayer company from Hollabrunn and melted down. The oldest and smallest of the three bells should also be delivered, whereas the steel bell from 1920 was not used. The pastor initially defended himself against the removal of the small bell. When the delivery was urged , the pastor's housekeeper said that it would be delivered at the same time as the bell of another church from the deanery. When that bell was transported away, the small bell from Groß was forgotten so that it survived the Second World War .
Since 1945
In 1955 two new bronze bells were ordered for 46,000 schillings and delivered by the bell foundry in St. Florian . A new bell cage was bought for them for 6,000 schillings.
The smaller of the two new bells bears the inscription “I greet you at the hour with Gabriella mouth. Ave! Parish Gross 1955 ”and the representations of Immaculata and St. Vitus.
The larger bell bears the inscription “You victor, you king, we have mercy! The fallen of the parish of Gross. Gross 1955 ”and the representation of the risen one .
The consecration of the bells took place on August 21, 1955.
Rectory
The rectory stands north of the parish church. The rectangular building with a high hipped roof was built at the end of the 18th century. A utility wing connects in the shape of a hook.
literature
- Dehio Lower Austria north of the Danube 1990 , Groß, parish church hl. Veit, in the center of the village, rectory, p. 316f.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Pastor Leopold Bauer (1912–1917) in the parish chronicle
- ^ Pastor Nikolaus Kolb (1919–1929) in the parish chronicle
- ^ Pastor Johann Schmid (1937–1950) in the parish chronicle
- ↑ pastor Stephan Szegvari (1954-1958) in the parish chronicle
Coordinates: 48 ° 34 ′ 19.5 ″ N , 15 ° 59 ′ 22.5 ″ E