Parish church Hausleiten
The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Agatha at Kirchenstrasse 41 in the Lower Austrian market town of Hausleiten is a baroque three-aisled basilica . It belongs to the Stockerau dean's office and is a listed building .
history
The Diocese of Passau , reorganized by Bonifatius in 739, was the largest diocese at the time of the Holy Roman Empire with 42,000 km² and extended over Vienna to Hungary. Today's parish of Hausleiten also belonged to the “Danube Bishopric”. The year of the founding of the parish St. Agatha (also St. Aythen) cannot be precisely determined, but falls in the time around 900, when Bavarian monks colonized and proselytized this area. The old patronage “St. Agatha ”refers to Bavaria. Many circumstances suggest that pastoral care in the area around Hausleiten was in order at the time of the death of Passau Bishop Pilgrim in 991 and that the Church of St. Agatha on the Wagram was already standing during his lifetime.
From the location of the church and its documented relationship to the place, it can be concluded that it was the first and - for a long time - the only building on this part of the Wagram. The name "Hausleiten" did not appear until the beginning of the 14th century, but earlier - e.g. B. 1189 - is described by an “Albertus, decanus st. agatha ”reports. Later came to “St. Agatha ”with the addition“ on the Wagram ”. When the name was given, the church was initially only mentioned, then the exact location was added, the place name only appears relatively late, initially again with the addition of the church patron ("Hausleiten bei St. Agatha"). As early as the 10th century, the “St. Agatha Church on the Wagram ”as the main church in this area to replace St. Michaels Church. This originally oldest church - located in Kirchheim Neuaigen, which later disappeared - was often a victim of the Danube floods and was also not centrally located. As a result, the church in Hausleiten developed into the center (original parish) of a huge pastoral care district that reached to Schöngrabern in the north. Originally fourteen branch churches and chapels were parish to St. Agatha. B. Schöngrabern, Hollabrunn, Göllersdorf, Sierndorf, Stetteldorf, Neuaigen.
The oldest parish land register dates from around 1324. After that, the Bishop of Passau had 38 subjects in Hausleiten, the parish owned 28 houses and a mill. The parish school was first mentioned in 1350. The weekly market was held in the square in front of the church for centuries. In 1544 the place remained Catholic despite the turmoil of the Reformation and the Protestant Count Hardegg. In 1590 Hausleiten had 65 houses, 49 of which belonged to the bishop, ten to the pastor, two to the church and four to Count Hardegg. In 1679 the plague raged in Hausleiten, which is also reminiscent of the Pestmarterl of 1713.
In 1758, Dean Gschellhammer had the rectory and outbuildings built; in 1770, judges and local residents donated the Stations of the Cross. The motif of the market coat of arms appeared for the first time in the seal of the foundation charter. In 1783 the parish came to the newly founded Diocese of Vienna.
description
The central nave and the north aisle with a flat wooden ceiling and early Gothic windows were added to Romanesque building remains (around 1100) between 1250 and 1270. The church became an early Gothic three-aisled basilica. In 1499 the flat wooden ceiling was replaced by the current barrel vault . The side aisles were extended by a yoke to the east and received a ribbed vault. The early Gothic windows were therefore inoperable and were walled up (they were exposed during the last major renovation on the north side). The Gothic tower, which is 44.5 m high and is square at the bottom and octagonal in the upper part, was also built. After 1500 the late Gothic chancel was added. Around 1602 Pastor Hennion had a crypt built on the right under the high altar, in which he and his relatives as well as Count Carl von Hardegg a . a. were buried. The access from the outside is now walled up. A total of 14 grave sites are mentioned - inside the church.
Pastor Gschelhammer had the rectory rebuilt in 1774 and the Alosius Chapel built as a connection between the church and it. At the same time, the church was given a baroque style by Kremser Schmidt. His successor, Dechant Müller, had the high Gothic windows walled up, the old Gothic vault torn down and given its current Baroque form, as well as the two dome frescos by Kremser Schmidt (1785). Müller also reduced the six side altars to two (cruciform and St. Mary's altars). This was followed by several renovations and small redesigns (e.g. in 1850), some of them in line with contemporary tastes, e.g. B. by neo-Gothic side altars. In 1972 and 1977 the church was renovated. The last extensive restoration took place in 2007/08 under Pastor Peter Janousek: the organ, the entire church and the frescoes in the chancel were renovated.
literature
- DEHIO Lower Austria north of the Danube . Berger, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-85028-395-3 , p. 1.
- Alfred Auer and Herbert Fritz: St. Agatha in Hausleiten mother parish of the Weinviertel "Church Leader" Edition Club Hausleiten ; Hausleiten 2009, ISBN 978-3-902368-22-5
- Renate Jankowitsch: From the house on the Leiten to the market town of Hausleiten: a local history , Vienna, Univ., Dipl.-Arb., 1998
- Johannes Kubalek: A Millennium Christian Life on the Wagram ; Parish Hausleiten, Hausleiten / Hollabrunn 1991
Web links
- Entry on parish church Hausleiten in the Austria-Forum (chapter sacred buildings)
- Parish Church of St. Agatha on the parish site
Individual evidence
- ^ Lower Austria - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. ( Memento of March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) . Federal Monuments Office , as of June 28, 2013 (PDF).
Coordinates: 48 ° 23 '48.4 " N , 16 ° 5' 41.8" E