Parish Church Haag (Lower Austria)
The parish church of Haag stands west of the main square in a walled plateau in the municipality of Haag in the district of Amstetten in Lower Austria . The Roman Catholic parish church consecrated to the Archangel Michael belongs to the dean's office in Haag in the diocese of St. Pölten . The church is a listed building ( list entry ).
history
Documented in 1032 was the consecration of the church and its foundation as a parish with Bishop Berengar von Passau . In 1065 the parish was part of the Archdiocese of Bamberg . In 1443 the church was continued as a fortified church with a letter of donation . Bamberg's patronage ended in 1803.
In 1435 the construction of the Gothic choir began. In 1564 the tower and the churchyard wall were raised like a fort. In 1878/1892/1893 the church was re-gothicized according to the designs of the architect Hermann von Riewel and the execution by Franz Pichlwanger and the churchyard wall was partly removed and partly provided with battlements. In 1970/1972 the church interior was restored and redesigned by the architect J. Weidinger.
architecture
The late Gothic staggered hall church with a long choir has a tower in the south of the choir corner and some younger extensions.
- Church exterior
Today the church shows itself with stone-faced ashlar and quarry stone masonry.
The nave under a steep hipped roof has two-lane neo-Gothic tracery windows and buttresses arranged without reference to the inner vaulting system, which are crowned with finials in the north. The undivided western front has pointed arch and round windows. The simple main portal in the south shows itself as a rectangular portal pierced with a bent keel arch point, the north portal as an arched portal has a defensive machicolation above the eaves and a neo-Gothic entrance room reminiscent of the former fortified church function.
The choir has high, three-lane tracery windows with neo-Gothic pass motifs and profiled garments and four-way buttresses crowned with finials, the two eastern tracery branches of which are enriched according to the original model, the original is in the northeast corner of the churchyard. The choir has a surrounding cornice and a sgraffitized tracery frieze under the eaves.
The tower in the southern choir corner has a cornice structure in the upper area, above the sound windows a defensive floor with protruding corner oriels and has a neo-Gothic pointed helmet.
The two-storey sacristy extension to the tower and choir has neo-Gothic windows.
- Church interior
Furnishing
Most of the formerly neo-Gothic furnishings are in safekeeping.
The stone folk altar, ambo and baptismal font as well as various bronze works of tabernacles, candlesticks, stations of the cross, baptismal font were created by Josef Drimmel from 1970 to 1973. The crucifix with a body from the first half of the 17th century and stone statues was created by the priest and sculptor Josef Elter in 1985.
A canvas picture of the Assumption was painted by Bartolomeo Altomonte in 1746.
The organ was built by the Upper Austrian Organ Building Institute / Kögler in 2000 .
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria south of the Danube 2003 . Hague, parish church St. Michael, with site plan and floor plan, churchyard, rectory. Pp. 648-651.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 6 '44 " N , 14 ° 33' 54.2" E