Parish Church of Katsdorf
The parish church of Katsdorf is located in the municipality of Katsdorf in Upper Austria . The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Vitus is part of the Pregarten dean's office in the Linz diocese . The church is a listed building ( list entry ).
history
History of the parish
Katsdorf was part of the old parish of St. Remigus in Ried in the Riedmark . This stretched from the Danube in the south to the north forest in the north, in the east the river Aist was the border to the parish Narrn and in the west to the parish Gallneukirchen . The old parish had been incorporated into St. Florian Monastery since 1122.
After the first church was built in 1116, Katsdorf became an independent parish. After the church was handed over to St. Florian Monastery in 1125, it was incorporated into it. In 1546 the parish could no longer be occupied by the monastery due to a lack of priests. Katsdorf was therefore incorporated into the Ried parish and the church became a subsidiary church. With the establishment of the Diocese of Linz , Katsdorf became an independent parish. In 1785 the imperial governor Eybl issued an order to the St. Florian monastery to send a permanent pastor to Katsdorf. The provost of St. Florian remained the pastor of the 33 Florian monastery parishes until Vatican II (1962–1965). The pastors on site were mostly canons ( Canonici Regulares ) of the monastery, who acted as parish administrators or parish vicars.
History of the church building
The noble Hermann von Chazilinistorf d. Ä. In 1116 built a first wooden church as a separate church in the center of the village , which Bishop Ulrich I of Passau dedicated to St. Vitus consecrated. She received baptismal and burial rights and was given by Hermann von Chazilinistorf the Elder. In 1125 handed over to St. Florian Monastery.
At the Hussite wars the church should parsonage and all documents in 1424 looting and arson fell victim sein.In this time built provost Kaspar I. Seisenecker the second church in late Gothic style. The location of the church was today's place 1. Since a renovation of the church was not advisable because of a slope endangered by landslides , the third church was built in 1645 as an early baroque church and consecrated by provost Leopld on June 6th, 1645. The church was largely destroyed by a lightning strike on April 8, 1838. The nave was then re- vaulted and the oratory was rebuilt. The interior was designed in the neo-Renaissance style during a renovation between 1890 and 1895 . The two front church windows with depictions of the Heart of Jesus and the Heart of Mary were made by Carl Geyling's Erben , a glass painting company from Vienna . In the course of the exterior renovation between 1908 and 1913, the tower was raised and received a new bell cage with four new bells .
In accordance with the liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council , the high altar , the side altars, the pulpit and the communion grille were removed in 1967 and the interior was redesigned with a popular altar and ambo . A baroque altarpiece with the martyrdom of the patron saint Vitus has been hanging in the middle of the sanctuary since 1983 .
The exterior restoration in 2002 was completed with a tower cross . During a renovation between 2007 and 2012, the church was given its current look. The four windows installed in 2009 on the north and south sides of the church symbolize the basic functions of the church: ( proclamation , liturgy , diakonia / charity and koinonia / community). They were designed by Gabriele Berger and made by the glass painter Josef Raukamp ( Schlierbach Abbey ).
architecture
The church is described as an unadorned hall building with a Gothic choir and slender west tower. The sacristy annex is on the north side of the choir. There are profiled baroque rectangular portals on both the north and south sides . The church has arched windows . The sound windows of the tower were framed with transom or wedge stone. The nave is covered by a gable roof, while a sloped hipped roof with ridge turrets is located above the choir . The interior was designed as a three-bay hall with square vaults on massive pillars , some of it baroque. The west gallery is two-storey and is supported by granite columns connected with basket arches . The one-bay chancel is covered by a barrel vaulted cap , while a groin vault was installed in the sacristy .
Bells
In Katsdorf there is a 300-year-old bell tradition that has been documented since 1719. After a lightning strike on April 8, 1838, a fire broke out in the tower, which destroyed the bells. In the same year three new bells were cast by the Linz bell caster Johann Hollederer with a total weight of 400 kg. In 1908 the bells were removed, the wooden belfry dismantled and the church tower raised. A ridge turret was built on the roof of the presbytery and the smallest bell from 1838 was used there as a conversion bell. Instead of the wooden belfry, an iron belfry was installed and four new bells were purchased. In 1949, Johannes Dettenrieder cast four new bells in the St. Florian bell foundry. This bell has a total weight of 1363 kg.
| No. | Surname | Casting year | Foundry and casting location | diameter | Weight | volume | inscription |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vitus bell | 1949 | Johannes Dettenrieder from the bell foundry in St. Florian | 99 cm | 601 kg | g sharp ′ | IN GLORY OF GOD I RING, IN THE SERVICE OF GOD I CALL, THE DEAD APPEAL, ST. MY VITUS |
| 2 | Marienbell | 1949 | Johannes Dettenrieder from the bell foundry in St. Florian | 83 cm | 359 kg | -H' | LOVE MARY WITH THE CHILD, GIVE US ALL YOUR BLESSES |
| 3 | Joseph Bell | 1949 | Johannes Dettenrieder from the bell foundry in St. Florian | 75 cm | 252 kg | cis ′ | ST. SHOW JOSEF WITH THE LILY BRANCH AS A Loyal Guardian Angel |
| 4th | Barbara's Bell | 1949 | Johannes Dettenrieder from the bell foundry in St. Florian | 63 cm | 151 kg | -e ′ | IS THE HOUR OF DEATH HERE, BE NEAR US AS A HELPER |
| 5 | Death bell | 1838 | Johannes Hollederer in Linz | approx. 30 kg | g sharp ′ ′ | This bell has been hanging on the ridge above the presbytery since 1909 |
Literature and Sources
- Fritz Preinfalk, Margareta Achleitner: Parish Church of St. Vitus in Katsdorf. Brochure, published by Heimatverein Katsdorf, Engerwitzdorf, 2016.
- Festschrift Katsdorf parish rebuilt 200 years from 1785–1985. In: Pfarrblatt Katsdorf, 1985.
- Franz Linninger: Imperial work of God in the home, from the history of the Florian parishes. Verlag der Stiftsbuchhaltung St. Florian, 1954.
- Heimatbuch Gallneukirchen, publisher Heimatverein Gallneukirchen and surroundings, 1982
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Coordinates: 48 ° 19 ′ 5 ″ N , 14 ° 28 ′ 22 ″ E