Parish Church Großpoppen

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Parish Church Großpoppen (before 1911)

The parish church of Großpoppen was consecrated to St. John the Baptist . It was with the 1938 made resettlement of large Poppen for the bearing of the training area Döllersheim to decay. The church is described in the Austrian art topography .

history

It is not known when the church of Großpoppen, which originally belonged to the parish of Pölla, became an independent parish. As such, it appears as early as 1332 in the register of benefactors of the Passau diocese . She later moved from the dean's office in Stein to the dean's office in Zwettl .

Between about 1565 and 1650 the parish of Großpoppen was Protestant .

Between 1662 and 1785 the parish of Großpoppen was combined with the parish of Oberndorf and until 1757 it was the official seat of the responsible pastor.

After Joachim Freiherr von Windhag bought Großpoppen , he had the Gothic church extensively rebuilt. In the 18th century, the nave was lengthened on the west side with the tower and connected to Großpoppen Castle.

Since 1960, the castle and church have been targeted and destroyed during target practice by the Austrian Armed Forces .

description

The Austrian art topography describes the parish church of Großpoppen as a single-nave complex with a semicircular choir . It had a tower that was attached to the west side of the castle.

The nave had four arched windows on each side. On the south side there was a small arched window below the westernmost one, on the north side under a protective roof the rectangular entrance door and to the west of it a smaller door that led to the gallery .

The slightly narrower, but equally high, choir adjoined the nave in a semicircle and had two arched windows in deep arched niches, with an arched window in between on the east side. The sacristy was built underneath .

The turret -like tower with a square floor plan above the west gallery had arched sound windows on each side and round hatches on the north and south sides. There were painted dials on the other two sides. The roof was designed as a baroque helmet, which had been covered with sheet metal since 1896.

In the church there were two side altars from the second half of the 18th century in addition to the baroque high altar from 1893. A relief made of wood at the beginning of the 18th century with a depiction of the Lamentation of Christ was in the castle chapel in Neunzen until 1852.

literature

  • Paul Buberl: The monuments of the political district Zwettl in Lower Austria (without Zwettl Abbey). Part 1: Allentsteig judicial district (= Austrian art topography . Vol. 8, 1). Commissioned by Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1911.
  • Wolfgang Etschmann, Hubert Speckner (Ed.): For the protection of the Republic of Austria ... (= writings on the history of the Austrian Armed Forces. Special volume). Gra & Wis, Vienna, 2005, ISBN 3-902455-03-9 .
  • Leopoldine Hokr: The founding authority of Großpoppen and Neunzen in the Graf Windhag'schen Scholarship Foundation. In: The Waldviertel. NF 40, 1991, ISSN  0259-8957 , pp. 125-134.
  • Johannes Müllner: The desecrated homeland. 2nd Edition. Association Information Waldviertel, Allentsteig 1998, ISBN 3-9500294-0-0 .
  • Margot Schindler : Having to go. The resettlement of the Döllersheim area (Lower Austria) 1938–1942. Folklore aspects (= publications of the Austrian Museum for Folklore 23). Austrian Museum for Folklore, Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-900359-38-5 .
  • Ernst-Werner Techow: The old home. Description of the Waldviertel around Döllersheim. Published by the Deutsche Ansiedlungsgesellschaft Berlin. Sudetendeutsche Verlags- und Druckerei-GmbH, Eger 1942.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Müllner: The desecrated home.
  2. ↑ Willibald Rosner (Ed.): The Allentsteig military training area. Region, origin, use and effects (= studies and research from the Lower Austrian Institute for Regional Studies. Vol. 17 = Lectures and discussions of the 12th Symposium of the Lower Austrian Institute for Regional Studies = Lower Austrian Writings 55 Science ). Lower Austrian Institute for Regional Studies, Vienna 1991, ISBN 3-85006-046-2 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 40 ′ 1.3 ″  N , 15 ° 20 ′ 31.1 ″  E