Parish church in Großengersdorf

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Parish church in Großengersdorf
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Northwest view
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East view
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South view with cemetery

The Roman Catholic parish church in Großengersdorf is located in the Lower Austrian market town of Großengersdorf in the Mistelbach district . The church dedicated to the Assumption of Mary belongs to the Wolkersdorf deanery in the vicariate Unter dem Manhartsberg of the Archdiocese of Vienna . It was built in several construction phases and is a listed building .

history

parish

Großengersdorf had been a branch of Pillichsdorf since 1339 . Because the Pillichsdorf pastor Albertus Ott married and became a Protestant, around 1550 the Engersdorfer demanded their independence from their pastor and their own parish. They were denied this, however, and only in 1784, in the course of the Josephine church reform , did Großengersdorf become an independent parish.

Building history

Only the massive fortified tower and the presbytery , probably from the end of the 14th century / beginning of the 15th century, remain from the original church . In 1892 a church building committee was founded to expand the church. From 1897 onwards, the reconstruction took place according to the plans of the architect Eugen Schweigl (1842–1929), during which the old nave was removed and replaced by a new, larger one. In the course of this renovation, which was completed with the consecration on December 22nd, 1901 , the cemetery , which is a listed building , was built southwest of the church.

description

architecture

The two-bay Gothic choir has a 5/8 end , tracery windows and stepped buttresses . The tower with buttresses inclined at the corners has a height of approx. 42 m. In 1894 the spire was removed, the masonry increased and the new pyramid roof covered with colored glazed tiles. The neo-Gothic nave with a portal on the west side is four-bay and three-aisled . The side aisles are connected to the central nave by wide, pressed pointed arches and a polygonal chapel has been added to the third bay.

Design

Both the choir and the nave have a ribbed vault and the parapet of the organ gallery has tracery . The fresco above the retracted, pointed triumphal arch depicts the “ Queen of Heaven over Großengersdorf” and was painted in 1901 by Adolf Schreitter (1854–1923), Knight of Schwarzenfeld.

Web links

Commons : Parish Church Großengersdorf  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lower Austria - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. ( Memento from February 20, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF), ( CSV ). Federal Monuments Office , as of January 17, 2018.
  2. ^ Museum of Lower Austria : Memory of the State: Großengersdorf ; accessed on Feb. 20, 2018
  3. ↑ a b c d e Dehio manual . The art monuments of Austria: Lower Austria. North of the Danube. Gross-Engersdorf. Parish Church of the Assumption of Mary. Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.), Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-7031-0585-2 , p. 321.
  4. ↑ a b c d community of Großengersdorf: Church history ; accessed on Feb. 20, 2018
  5. ↑ Eugen Schweigl. In: Architects Lexicon Vienna 1770–1945. Published by the Architekturzentrum Wien . Vienna 2007.

Coordinates: 48 ° 21 ′ 24 ″  N , 16 ° 34 ′ 9 ″  E