Parish church Gutenstein (Lower Austria)
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The Roman Catholic parish church Gutenstein is in the village of Gutenstein in the municipality of Gutenstein in the district of Wiener Neustadt-Land in Lower Austria . It is consecrated to St. John the Baptist and is located in the deanery Piesting in the vicariate Unter dem Wienerwald of the Archdiocese of Vienna . The building is under monument protection ( list entry ).
Location description
The church is in the center of the village of Gutenstein on the through road.
history
The lower part of the nave walls is Romanesque . A parish in Gutenstein was first mentioned in a document in 1220. The late Gothic choir was built in 1487. In 1670 and 1679 the nave was rebuilt in baroque style. In the course of the baroque era it was raised and newly vaulted. In addition, the side chapel niches were installed. The renovation was carried out by master builder Peter Baron . Between 1679 and 2000 the church was incorporated into the Servite monastery on Mariahilfberg . In the years 1857 and 1858 a reconstruction in the neo-Gothic style took place under Ernst Karl von Hoyos-Sprinzenstein . The tracery windows were added, the northern portal vestibules were attached to the nave, the rulership oratorio was created at the choir and the west tower was built. The sacristy was added in 1907.
architecture
Church exterior
The east-facing church is a baroque-style Romanesque hall church with a late Gothic polygonal choir. The church shows a slight bend in the axis to the southeast. The neo-Gothic west tower is presented. In the north there are neo-Gothic extensions, in the south the sacristy from 1907 is added. The nave and the choir are equally wide and high. They are located under a uniform gable roof that is hipped over the end of the choir. The nave is structured by baroque buttresses . The lunette windows are baroque, the two-lane tracery windows are neo-Gothic. The former neo-Gothic portal porch is attached to the nave in the north. this is now used as a chapel and stands over a polygonal floor plan. The year 1858 is on the shoulder portal . At the height of the easternmost nave yoke, a shallow baroque chapel extension is inserted between the buttresses on the north side. This has a pent roof . The counterpart on the south side was built in 1907 by the sacristy. The late Gothic choir has a polygonal ending. The year 1487 can be read above the eastern window . The choir is divided by double buttresses. The tracery windows have one and two lanes. Some of these have fish bubble tracery. The carved and painted frame decoration is late Gothic.
To the north, the neo-Gothic oratorio annex connects to the choir with the same eaves height as the choir. The extension is under a hipped roof, the facade is structured by buttresses and pointed arched windows. There is a shoulder portal on the east side. Above it is the coat of arms of the Hoyos family and the year 1857 . On the side of the nave and choir, the sacristy is built on the south side. This is under a pent roof. The three-zone steeple is presented to the church in the west. It was built in 1857 over a square floor plan. The sound floor has chamfered corners, the roof is designed as a slender pyramid helmet over cross gables. On the west side there is a pointed arch portal with a neo-Gothic door leaf. The vestibule on the tower ground floor is vaulted with ribs . The windows of the tower are ogival. At the choir there is a classical tombstone for Theresia Gasser from 1832.
Church interior
The core of the church's Romanesque nave is three-bay and barrel-vaulted with stitch caps . The vault is from 1679 and 1680. In the easternmost yoke there are round-arched baroque chapel niches on both sides. The west gallery is made of wood and dates from the end of the 19th century. The parapet of the gallery has carved neo-renaissance décor. On the north side of the gallery in the window area there is a stone parapet with openwork neo-Gothic tracery from around 1857.
The choir has one bay and closes in the 5/8 end. Above it is a ribbed vault that rests on pyramid-shaped consoles . The keystones are round. The oval, former holy spirit hole with a late Gothic, ornamental frame was closed at a later time and painted with a monogram of the Servite monastery. On the north wall of the choir there is a large neo-Gothic oratory window from 1857. It was designed in the form of a richly decorated, three-lane tracery window with a tracery parapet. The ogival wall niches are simple: on the north side is the sacrament niche , on the south side there is a lavabo and session niche.
The glass paintings in the church are partly figural, partly scenic. They were painted in 1956. The choir depicts the founding legend of the Servite Order , as well as the Feast of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary and the Assumption of Mary into heaven . In the nave, the roots of Jesse , Adam and Eve and the Holy Family are depicted, in the choir there is a neo-Gothic window of St. Rosa of Lima . Like the one in the nave, this window dates from 1903. Above the west portal there is a window with the coat of arms of the Hoyos family from 1857. Maria Immaculata is depicted in the oratory . The window was created in 1952 based on a design by Josef Widmoser . In the southern portal vestibule, the soul between the angel and the devil is depicted on a window from around 1900.
Furnishing
The high altar is a baldarchin-like structure overlaid with volute arches. it has laterally inclined sacrificial passage portals . The altar was documented in 1755. The altarpiece depicts the “ Baptism of Jesus ”. The image is a copy of a picture by Domenico Tintoretto from the end of the 17th century. The picture was taken from the previous altar. The upper picture shows the Holy Family. It was painted in 1895. On the side above the sacrificial portals there are figures of Saints Sebastian and Rochus .
The side altars are in the chapel niches of the nave. They are designed in the same way and date from between 1680 and 1700. They are broad double-columned retables with arched niches. In the middle of the left side altar is the remarkable statue of a crescent moon Madonna from the end of the 15th century. It is flanked by figures of St. Eligius, Bishop, and St. Florian . These two statues were probably made at the end of the 18th century.
The statues on the right side altar are uniform from the period between 1680 and 1700. St. Catherine is flanked by two female saints, who may represent St. Margaret and St. Barbara .
The simple hanging pulpit dates from the second half of the 19th century. There are numerous statues in the church, such as a statue of St. John Nepomuk from the middle of the 18th century, a half-length figure of St. Joseph with baby Jesus from the end of the 18th century and a figure of St. John the Baptist from the middle of the 15th century . In the oratory there is also a stone statuette of a Madonna figure from the mid-19th century on a console. In the organ loft there are panels depicting Saints Matthew , John , Andrew , Peter and Paul . They were painted in the first half of the 18th century. The baroque baptismal font is shaped like a clam shell.
In the church there are three figural grave slabs with reliefs. In the tower hall is the grave slabs for "Fellician von Petschach" from 1537 and his wife "Madlen geb. von der Dürr ”from 1532. In the north chapel,“ Ellena von der Dürr geb. von Raunach ”buried. She died in 1529 and was the mother of Madlen geb. from the Dürr.
organ
The organ was made by Eduard Kanitsch in 1889.
literature
- DEHIO manual. The art monuments of Austria: Lower Austria. South of the Danube. A-L. Gutenstein. Parish church hl. John the Baptist. Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.), Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85028-364-X , pp. 631–633.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Lower Austria - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. (PDF), ( CSV ). Federal Monuments Office , status: 23 January 2019.
- ↑ DEHIO manual. The art monuments of Austria: Lower Austria. South of the Danube. A-L. Gutenstein. Parish church hl. John the Baptist. Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.), Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85028-364-X , p. 631.
- ↑ a b DEHIO manual. The art monuments of Austria: Lower Austria. South of the Danube. A-L. Gutenstein. Parish church hl. John the Baptist. Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.), Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85028-364-X , p. 631f.
- ↑ a b c DEHIO manual. The art monuments of Austria: Lower Austria. South of the Danube. A-L. Gutenstein. Parish church hl. John the Baptist. Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.), Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85028-364-X , p. 632.
- ↑ a b c d e f DEHIO manual. The art monuments of Austria: Lower Austria. South of the Danube. A-L. Gutenstein. Parish church hl. John the Baptist. Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.), Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85028-364-X , p. 632f.
Coordinates: 47 ° 52 '32.9 " N , 15 ° 53' 12.1" E