Hardegg parish church
The Hardegg parish church stands on the northern slope of the Burgberg in the town of Hardegg in the Hollabrunn district in Lower Austria . The Roman Catholic parish church consecrated to St. Vitus belongs to the deanery of Geras in the diocese of St. Pölten . The church is a listed building ( list entry ).
history
The Counts of Plain-Hardegg probably founded a parish in connection with the rule in the middle of the 12th century. Documented in 1220 was a private parish of the county. In the middle of the 16th century the parish was Protestant . In the course of the 17th century the parish was orphaned and was re-endowed by the rule in 1694.
The small, in the core, late Romanesque church building with high Gothic extensions was converted to Baroque style from 1743 onwards. 1970 was a restoration.
architecture
The church stands together with the Karner and the cemetery on a small terrace on the northern slope of the castle hill. The church is connected to the lower rectory with a steep, covered wooden staircase.
- Church exterior
The Romanesque nave from the beginning of the 13th century received a lower south aisle in the beginning of the 14th century. The high choir around 1400 with a strong axis bend to the nave has a high Gothic sacristy extension to the north. To the east of the sacristy to the north of the choir stands the church tower from 1754. The simply structured nave with a smooth western gable front has baroque arched windows in the aisle on the south side. The slightly raised choir with a five-eighth end has stepped buttresses with pinnacle-like approaches and tracery in the uppermost zone. The originally Gothic tracery windows are bricked up in Baroque style and rounded off with fluted reveals, remnants of the late Gothic tracery in fish-bubble shapes are preserved inside above the choir vault. The mighty three-zone tower with a baroque tied-off hood is simply structured with pilaster strips and ribbons, has small rectangular windows, the bell storey with a profiled cornice and corner pilasters has arched windows and a clock gable.
- Church interior
The main nave of the nave has a flat ceiling. In the north wall of the nave there is a deep ogival door wall from the 13th century. In the west of the main nave there is a baroque organ gallery from the first half of the 18th century on a heavy round arch, the gallery balustrade shows itself with slender balusters and volutes. The lower south aisle of the nave has a flat ceiling and is open to the main aisle with three squat arcades.
On the central south nave pillar there is a Gothic wall painting Last Judgment from the middle of the 14th century, exposed in 1927, the surface heavily scratched.
The chamfered, ogival triumphal arch around 1400 is drawn in and is at an angle to the nave and at right angles to the axis of the choir. The elevated choir with a south-facing bend was originally two-bay with five-eighth end and was divided into three bays in the middle of the 18th century with a baroque vault as a barrel with flat lancet caps over belt arches on pilasters and tall pastries, delicate stucco decoration shows the monograms IHS and Maria. In the choir polygon there is a late Gothic sacraments niche with three-pass tracery, the wrought-iron grid is named 1605. The sacristy to the north of the choir has a barrel vault.
Furnishing
The high altar from 1863, created by Wenzel Scribani, has a neoclassical structure with a simple wall retable with slim double columns on high plinths, it has a sarcophagus and a classical tabernacle with the grace figure of Mariahilf and adoring angels from the end of the 18th century. The leaf on the high altar shows the apotheosis of St. Veit with a depiction of Hardegg by Joseph Winterhalter 1785. The side figures are two late Gothic, baroque omitted, wooden bishop figures.
The baroque side altars from 1733/1735, designed similar to the high altar, are simple double-columned retables, each with two putti figures on the blasted gable and sarcophagi, the left altar panel from the first half of the 18th century shows Johannes Nepomuk , the right altar panel shows Maria with child by Rudolf Welleba 1934.
The organ case in classical forms contains an organ work by Dreher and Flamm 1935.
Tombstones
Outside
- On the tower ground floor there are walled-in fragments of the epitaph for Eva Prueschenk-Hardegg 1581 with the depiction of donors praying with children, the middle plate is in the chapel of Hardegg Castle , as a lunette above the tower entrance gate relief of God the Father with globe, as a stepping board of the entrance the corresponding inscription plate 1581 strong weathered.
- Monumental tombstone of the König family of powder makers in 1842 on the polygon of the choir
Inside
- Monumental epitaph for Julius von Hardegg from the third quarter of the 16th century with a triangular pedicure with a coat of arms and a relief of the knight kneeling before the crucified.
- Classicist vase-crowned tombstone with the figure of Chronos to Josef Ipp 1812.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria north of the Danube 1990 . Hardegg, parish church St. Veit with floor plan, Karner. Pp. 390-391.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 51 '16 " N , 15 ° 51' 27.8" E