Parish church Kirchberg am Walde
The parish church Kirchberg am Walde is in the east of the village Kirchberg am Walde in the market town of Kirchberg am Walde in the Gmünd district in Lower Austria . The Roman Catholic parish church consecrated to St. John the Baptist belongs to the deanery of Gmünd in the diocese of St. Pölten . The church and the former cemetery are under monument protection ( list entry ).
history
Initially, the castle church complex of the Lords of Kirchberg stood on the site of today's parish church. In a document in 1239 a parish with the original patronage of St. Called Ulrich. From 1709 to 1713 a new church was built under Johann Leopold Graf Kuefstein with the builder Bartholomäus Hochholdinger. The church was consecrated in 1713 with the patronage of John the Baptist. 1905 and 1936 were renovations.
architecture
The exterior is characterized by a uniform structure with pilaster strips and cornices.
The square three-storey west tower with the year 1712 is presented on the west facade. The figures Leopold and Florian from the first half of the 18th century stand on the volutes on both sides of the tower. The rustikaportal in the tower shows a coat of arms cartouche Kuefstein-Kollonitsch and above it in a niche the figure Maria Immaculata from the 1st half of the 18th century. The tower has arched sound windows with a balustrade and a doubled onion helmet. On the side of the portal are epitaphs from around 1800, on the right for Johann Reichsgraf Veterani-Mallenthein in 1789, on the left for Adam Graf Veterani-Mallenthein in 1855. On the north side of the tower and west facade is a stair tower.
The three-bay nave under a gable roof has arched windows and shows the year 1709 on the east gable and has rectangular portals under pine cones in split gables in the central bay. The lower retracted single-bay choir has a triangle closure and a framed rectangular portal on the north side. On the south side of the choir there is a two-storey sacristy extension.
The vestibule in the tower is vaulted with groin with indented ridges and a crown ring. The rectangular portal, the nave and the choir are uniformly structured with a cornice, double chords on double pilasters. In the double pilasters there are partly figure niches. The nave under a barrel vault with stitch caps has a three-axis, two-story organ loft with wooden balustrades over Tuscan columns and pilasters with a cross vault and a flat ceiling. The retracted triumphal arch shows a fresco crucifixion around 1710. The choir bay has a groin vault and the apse has a lancet vault on bent pilasters. The choir has lateral marbled portals, to the south to the sacristy with a crowning oval image of St. Franz Xavier from 1721 and a bust between two Bourbon coats of arms from the 2nd quarter of the 19th century, to the north with a crowning dedicatory inscription from 1713 and also a bust of St. Franz Xaver. There is an oratorio opening in the south of the choir.
In the west of the church there is a gate with a central rusticated round arch portal between pilasters with the year 1713 and a gable top with figures of St. Peter and Paul and the Risen One.
The rectory north of the church on a step was built between 1780 and 1783. The two-storey Josephinian building shows a giant pilaster strip and panel decoration. Over the gate with the indication 1789 there is a coat of arms Veterani.
Furnishing
The baroque furnishings are from the 1st quarter of the 18th century. The high altar around 1713 has a marbled concave column architecture with bust-crowned sacrificial passage portals and shows the altar sheet baptism of Christ and stucco side figures of holy nuns and in the excerpt an angelic glory between the saints. Paul and Leopold. The inlaid tabernacle is crowned with a figure of a pelican who soaks his young with the blood of his heart, in the Easter period with a figure of the risen one. The left side altar shows the altar sheet Adoration of the Shepherds by the painter Matthias Mölck (1712), the image of St. Maria (Dutch from the 1st half of the 16th century) in a rococo frame, in base reliefs youth scenes of Christ and the stucco figures Cäcilie and Gabriel. The right side altar shows the altar sheet St. Ulrich from the 1st quarter of the 18th century, the image of Johannes von Nepomuk in the Rococo frame, in the base reliefs St. Rosalia, Raphael and Guardian Angel and the stucco figures Sebastian, Rochus and Michael.
The pulpit has an inlaid basket with evangelist reliefs with a relief Annunciation on the back wall and on the sound cover seated figures of the four church fathers and St. Peter. The top figure shows Christ as the Good Shepherd.
There are four marble slabs in relief with inscriptions from the end of the 16th and beginning of the 17th century on the nave walls in baroque frames. Originally probably epitaphs of the Lords of Sondernhof, from 1561 to 1607 the rule in Kirchberg am Walde, with pictures and texts based on a Luther Bible from 1564/1574, with depictions of Moses and the brazen serpent, Jael killing Sisera, knight and death, resurrection of the Kill.
The organ case with acanthus decor from 1711 is marked GWC and shows the coat of arms Kollonitsch-Kuefstein and bears the figure of David. Gregor Hradetzky built the organ in 1975. There are two clarinets from 1787 and two clarinets by Martin Schemmel from 1837. Mathias Piringer (1713) cast a bell.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria north of the Danube 1990 . Kirchberg am Walde, parish church hl. Johannes d. T., rectory, red chapel. Pp. 502-503.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 43 '30.6 " N , 15 ° 5' 22.4" E