Guntersdorf parish church
The parish church Guntersdorf stands on the thoroughfare in the market town of Guntersdorf in the Hollabrunn district in Lower Austria . The the feast of the Assumption , dedicated Roman Catholic parish church belongs to the deanery Hollabrunn in the Archdiocese of Vienna . The church is a listed building ( list entry ).
history
A parish as a manorial foundation was assumed for the end of the 12th century and referred to half of the place, in 1312 the second half was ceded by the parish of Wullersdorf.
The current church is a Gothic basilica from the mid-14th century.
architecture
- Church exterior
The basilica nave with arched arcade hatches has high arched windows and ogive arched windows in the side aisles, the Gothic tracery of which has been knocked out except for one window. The smooth western front to the thoroughfare has a mighty sloping central support pillar and pointed arched window. The shoulder-arched south portal with a revised bar frame was built in the early 16th century. Above that in the wall there is a relief group of a crucifix with a cross of branches with two kneeling donors with an illegible inscription, probably from the middle of the 14th century. A relief head from the middle of the 14th century is walled up on the north side.
The two- bay choir with a five- eighth end has outer buttresses and pointed arch windows with two-lane tracery with three-pass motifs. On the east side there is a walled outlet into a crypt. To the north of the choir there is a three-storey tower with pointed arch windows, the basement shows a sgraffito corner, the bell storey and the pyramid helmet are probably from the 19th century.
Outside the church is a tombstone with a relief crucifix for Wilhalmb Perger 1620. A tombstone with a relief Pietà and putti from the 18th century.
- Church interior
The central nave, which was provided with a flat wooden ceiling after 1959, is open to the lower four-bay side aisles with squat, beveled pointed arches. The deep late Gothic entrance area under the gallery is open to the central nave with fluted pointed arches, the gallery stands on a three-aisled oblong cross-rib vault on rectangular pillars.
The south aisle, with cross ribbed vaults on approaches with floral motifs, empty heraldic shields and relief trinity in three interlocking heads and keystones with a binding shield, closes polygonally to the east. The north side aisle with ribbed vaults may have once contained a chapel in the two east bays, the two west bays are separated from it by retracted round arches.
The retracted, pointed triumphal arch has a polygonal support in the vault area and towers above the flat wooden ceiling of the central nave.
The two-bay, high-rise choir from the second half of the 14th century has cross-ribbed vaults on round bar templates with bundles, the keystones show Christ the Good Shepherd and the dove. The wall structure of the choir is divided into two zones by a cornice pierced by the services. In the polygon on the right there is a two-part ogival session niche and further small niches with a three-pass, pointed gable and keel arch shape. On the left in the choir there is a slender, steep and towering sacrament house in the form of the Viennese Bauhütte with the year 1505, the sacrament house has a four-zone structure with a base, tabernacle, turret and pinnacle, which is remarkable for its interlocking and partly free-form keel arches and keel arches richly decorated with crabs Branch forms have slept with each other.
The glass paintings from 1913/1914 show Guardian Angels, Aloysius, Josef, Anna, Antonius and Franziskus.
Furnishing
The high altar around 1700 with a slender double column retable bears the figures of Nikolaus and Florian, angel figures lying on the blasted segmented arch gable, on the excerpt repeating the retable structure the figures Barbara and Katharina, and the crowning group of figures Archangel Michael fighting the devil, above the sacrificial passage portals Statues Sebastian and Rochus. The high altar shows the altar sheet Johannes Nepomuk in front of Mary with child from the beginning of the 18th century in a new frame. The extract shows the Trinity. The tabernacle with canopy and rocaille decoration from the first half of the 18th century has volutes with putti on the side.
The eight-sided late medieval marble baptismal font is fragmented. A massive round holy water basin on a squat baluster plinth from around 1600 is delicately decorated with head masks and acanthus ornament and coat of arms.
The organ was built by Josef Loyp (1842).
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria north of the Danube 1990 . Guntersdorf, parish church Mariae Himmelfahrt, with floor plan, rectory. Pp. 370-371.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 38 '54.9 " N , 16 ° 2' 49.7" E