Parish church Königswiesen
The parish church Königswiesen stands at the highest point northeast of the street in the market town of Königswiesen in the district of Freistadt in Upper Austria . The Roman Catholic parish church , consecrated on the feast of the Assumption of Mary , belongs to the dean's office Unterweißbach in the diocese of Linz . The church is a listed building ( list entry ).
history
Documented the church was in 1147 as a private church of Otto von Machland the monastery Säbnich passed as Dotationsgut. The first pastor was mentioned in a document in 1270. In 1399 the church was incorporated into the monastery and remained until 1792 when the monastery was dissolved.
The north, west and east walls contain Romanesque building remains, the remains of two older gables have been preserved in the attic near the east wall. A long Gothic renovation from the late 14th century to the third quarter of the 15th century shows several changes to the plan, initially with a hall church and partly with buttresses in the west wall, from 1400 onwards a lower south aisle with a west gallery was added, with an increase in the central nave an east and west gable in the attic, the triumphal arch mentions 1456. Around 1520 a full-sided reconstruction to the present hall was preserved, increasing the walls in the former south aisle, increasing the north wall pillars and the north gallery and enlarging the windows and adding a South portal. The choir was increased in the fourth quarter of the 14th century. The massive tower was built in the second half of the 13th century, original ashlar painting has been preserved in the attic. The tower was raised in the second half of the 15th century, it burned down in 1880, and was probably raised further in 1884. The sacristy was built in the early 16th century and an extension was added in 1997.
In 1563 the roof structure burned down. Restorations were in 1949, 1963, 1981.
architecture
The church is equipped with a loop rib vault , which has only a few counterparts as an art historical rarity (including in the parish church of Freistadt in Upper Austria, in the St. Anne's Church in Saxony and in the former parish church of Leoben-Göß in Styria) . The looped rib vault is considered to be the highest expression of late Gothic architecture and was used in Königswiesen in 1520 to support the roof structure with the greatest planning effort. The construction of the vault is said to have taken seven to nine years, as each of the individual ribs had to be worked with individually worked stones - as for the matrix of a mosaic. The construction is attributed to the construction hut of the Freistadt master stonemason Mathes Klayndl . The peculiarity of this rib architecture is its ornamental shape - the ribs literally "snake" over the vault, form asymmetrical surfaces and support the vault arches in a highly ingenious way.
The nave is a mighty two-aisled, four-bay hall construction with an extremely dense dynamic looping rib vault over octagonal pillars, on the north side over wall pillars with intervening mesh rib vaulted rooms, the eastern antechamber is a chapel, the three western ancillary rooms contain built-in galleries. The three-aisled one-bay west gallery of the previous building has been preserved and contains ribs for a new gallery. The retracted two-bay choir with a five-eighth end and a ribbed vault stands in relation to the previous building in the axis of the north nave. The tall, slender tower in the southern corner of the choir protrudes slightly into the choir. The Gothic cross-rib vaulted sacristy in the north choir corner received a small extension to the west.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Mühlviertel 2003 . Königswiesen, parish church Mariae Himmelfahrt, with floor plan, pp. 376–379.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 24 '26.3 " N , 14 ° 50' 24.7" E