Parish Church Hoheneich
The Roman Catholic parish church of Hoheneich is located in Hoheneich in the market town of Hoheneich in Lower Austria . The parish and pilgrimage church of the Immaculate Conception belongs to the deanery of Gmünd in the diocese of St. Pölten . The church and the former cemetery are under monument protection .
history
A parish was mentioned in a document in 1338, which went under in 1540. In 1620 the legend of the miracle door of the church originated. In 1689 the church became a parish church again. From 1776 to 1778 a new church was built according to the plans of the architect Andreas Zach on the site of a previous Gothic church in Baroque style and consecrated in 1778 and 1832. From 1885 to 1893 there was a renovation.
architecture
The church stands north of the market square on a step in the terrain and was initially surrounded by a cemetery. The single-tower facade protrudes laterally as an independent facade body, swings in in the lower area, has a giant pilaster order and wall structure in plate style with a triangular gable in the risalit-like central axis and shows the Veterani coat of arms of Kirchberg am Walde. The single tower facade has a high arched window over a segmented gable portal and figure niches with the figures Peter and Paul around 1780 in the side axes Corner pilasters, arched sound windows, clock cartridges and garlands, and over a roof lantern an onion helmet from 1837.
The central building under an octagonal tent roof has wide short transverse arms and is connected with a two-bay choir with a straight end and rounded corners under a gable roof. The facade is uniformly structured by wall panels, has lunette windows and a surrounding beam. On both sides of the choir, flush with the transverse arms, there are two-story sacristies with oratorios with rounded corners and a decorative panel on the upper floor. At the eastern transverse arm there is a slight porch at the arched gate between double pilasters, above the entablature are vase attachments with the figure of Mary with child from the 18th century. Inside, the gothic profiled pointed arch portal of the former miracle door from the previous building was reused and preserved with a tympanum with three-pass filling over a shoulder arch from the 14th century.
The interior of the church shows itself as a longitudinal oval domed room with cross arms, which is uniformly structured by a circumferential end beam on giant pilasters with gilded, Ionic capitals. Above the entablature are arched windows, which are adorned in the choir and in the dome wraps with gilded shell crowns and decor in plait style . In the diagonal axes there are round-arched altar niches, crowned with gold-plated cartouches and plaited decoration. The short cross arms have barrel vaults on double straps. The choir and the south arm behind the facade have oblong square vaults with double straps. In the rounded south arm there is a swinging organ loft, arched under a square, over a pushed arcade of pillars.
Franz Mayerhofer (1893) painted the ceiling painting, in the dome the Admission of Mary to Heaven, in the choir yokes adoration of the Eucharist and the throne of Mary, in the southern arm of the angel concert .
Furnishing
The classicist interior is marbled. The high altar around 1780 with a mighty stucco marble structure is connected to the rear wall of the choir with the room structure. In the high central niche between the columns and segmented gable heads stands the late Gothic statue of grace Mary with child from 1480/1490 in a late baroque angelic glory around 1780.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria north of the Danube 1990 . Hoheneich, Parish and Pilgrimage Church Immaculate Conception, Pfarrhof, pp. 434–435.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 46 ′ 19.3 " N , 15 ° 1 ′ 33.6" E