Parish church Hannersdorf
The Roman Catholic parish church of Hannersdorf is in the municipality of Hannersdorf in the Oberwart district in Burgenland . It is the feast Nativity consecrated and belongs to the deanery Rechnitz in the diocese Eisenstadt . The building is a listed building .
Location description
The church stands on a slope high above the village in a walled churchyard.
history
The parish was founded around 1500. In 1525 the nave was probably rebuilt, in 1715 a renovation took place, in 1765 the church was redesigned in baroque style and in 1893 partially re-gothicized. The interior was restored in 1967/68 and an exterior restoration in 1973. All restoration dates are recorded in writing on the triumphal arch .
Church building
- Church exterior
The sacred building is a Gothic village church. The 15th century choir is low and drawn in. The nave has a high roof from the first quarter of the 16th century. Above it is a small roof turret with a baroque onion helmet from the 18th century. There are simple buttresses on the nave and choir . In the choir there are pointed arched windows with original terracotta work . In the south wall there are three windows with renewed tracery. The portal is designed as a curtain arch portal . The fragments of the wall paintings next to the south portal date from the 18th century. The west portal is a late Gothic cantilevered lintel. The arch field was renewed in 1893. It shows a lion with a ram's head under its paws. On the eastern choir buttress is a Roman marble sculpture from the 2nd century AD. There is also a Roman relief of a vine from the 2nd century AD on the northern nave buttress. Both stones come from the former fortifications of the village of Burg .
- Church interior
The three-bay nave is vaulted with net ribs . This was partially renewed in 1893. The gallery is triaxial and arched with cross ribs . A pointed triumphal arch separates the nave from the two-bay choir and the apse with a 3/8 end. The choir is cross-vaulted. The vault ribs and the sacristy portal with sloping walls are made of terracotta . The original sacrament niche with the original little door dates from the fourth quarter of the 15th century.
The wall paintings on the north wall of the nave were painted in the first quarter of the 16th century. It depicts the crucifixion with donor figures. In the choir there are remains of ornamentally painted decoration. Both wall paintings were uncovered, restored and supplemented in 1968.
Furnishing
The baroque high altar dates from the second quarter of the 18th century and was built for another unknown church. In 1757 it was adapted for the church in Hannersdorf. The high altar is a columned altar with heavy beams and a small attachment. The altarpiece shows the scene “The Birth of Mary”. There are large angel figures and putti to the side .
The side altar is dedicated to St. Joseph . It is a wall altar from the fourth quarter of the 17th century with twisted columns. The altarpiece shows Saint Joseph, the side figures represent Saints Gregory and Rochus . Angels stand on the pediment. On the tabernacle there is a carved figure of St. Mary from the first half of the 18th century. It was restored in 1968.
The pulpit was built in the second quarter of the 18th century. It depicts seated figures of the four evangelists with white chamfered edges.
On the north wall there is a carved figure of St. Michael from the second quarter of the 18th century. It was originally an attachment figure on the high altar. Two angels from the second quarter of the 18th century stand on the sloping walls of the apse. The oil painting of St. John Nepomuk comes from the first half of the 18th century and hangs on the south wall. It was originally the altarpiece of the former left side altar. The 14 stations of the cross originate from the parish church Steinbrunn . They were painted between 1830 and 1840 and restored in 1975. In the apse are two heraldic gravestones. One belongs to the grave of Baron Georg Albrecht von Rindsmaul († 1654), the second to that of his wife Katharina geb. Aman († 1694).
organ
The organ in a neo-Gothic case was built in 1893 based on a design by O. Szteloh from Budapest .
literature
- Dehio-Handbuch - The art monuments of Austria - Burgenland. Hannersdorf, Parish Church of the Birth of Mary. Edited by Adelheid Schmeller-Kitt with contributions by Friedrich Berg , Clara Prickler-Wassitzky and Hannsjörg Ubl. Verlag Berger, Horn / Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-85028-400-4 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Burgenland - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. ( Memento of May 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) . Federal Monuments Office , as of June 26, 2015 (PDF).
Coordinates: 47 ° 13 '47.3 " N , 16 ° 22' 52.7" E