Parish church Hochneukirchen
The Roman Catholic parish church of Hochneukirchen is located in Hochneukirchen in the municipality of Hochneukirchen-Gschaidt in the Wiener Neustadt-Land district in Lower Austria . The church consecrated to St. Bartholomew belongs to the Deanery Kirchschlag in the Vicariate Unter dem Wienerwald of the Archdiocese of Vienna . The former fortified church is a listed building .
location
It is visible from afar on a ridge between the Hochneukirchenbach and the diving stream, which is what gave it its name.
history
The church building was erected around 1300 as an initially Romanesque and later an early Gothic building. The parish of Hochneukirchen is mentioned for the first time in 1332 in a document in the Reichersberg monastery . In the 15th century the building was given a second tower on the east side so that the nave was "wedged" between the two towers. At the turn of the 16th century, an upper storey with 15 loopholes and 13 spotting holes was built in to serve as a defense against Turks and Kurucs (1699 and 1707). After a fire in 1726, the east tower was not rebuilt. The rest of the church was redesigned in Baroque style by 1787, and the west tower also received the baroque onion helmet .
The oldest surviving depiction shows the church around 1824. As recently as 1828, it is documented that it was equipped with hook boxes as a defense weapon. The cemetery around the church was moved to the outskirts in 1844 and the defensive wall was removed in 1897. From 1982 to 1983 the church received a modern extension by architect Hans Petermair in order to better meet today's demands for a place of worship. In addition, the upper floor was renovated and expanded as an event room, in which two to three concerts and exhibitions now take place each year.
The neo-Gothic altars of the old church come from Val Gardena and were made around 1900. The main altar depicts the patron saint Bartholomäus and the saints Mauritius and Florian . A miraculous image of Maria Hilf from Passau is incorporated in the left side altar . Other representations are St. Dedicated to Barbara , Katharina , Leopold (left), Nikolaus and Aloisius (right, Herz Jesu- Altar). The annex contains a fresco by Sepp Mayrhuber with the Pentecostal miracle and a glass window by Clarisse Schrack-Praun .
The steeple contains four bells, the largest was not raised until 1999.
The church of Hochneukirchen is part of the Wehrkirchenstrasse in the Bucklige Welt .
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Coordinates: 47 ° 27 ′ 28.2 ″ N , 16 ° 12 ′ 2.3 ″ E