Parish church Kirchberg am Wechsel
The parish church Kirchberg am Wechsel is located at the Kirchberg am Wechsel monastery in the market town of Kirchberg am Wechsel in the Neunkirchen district in Lower Austria . The Roman Catholic parish church and former collegiate church, consecrated to St. James the Elder , belongs to the Kirchberg deanery in the vicariate Unter dem Wienerwald of the Archdiocese of Vienna . The church is a listed building ( list entry ).
history
The parish was founded with the Lords of Kranichberg around 1200 and named in a document in 1232. The church was incorporated into the women's choir in 1272 . From 1754 to 1756, a free-standing, uniform baroque hall was built over the foundations of a smaller, medieval Gothic dilapidated collegiate church. The southern nave wall of the Gothic church was preserved. In 1829 the church suffered a fire and the roof turret was redesigned. The interior was restored in 1989/1990.
architecture
The mighty nave has a set west tower and a retracted semicircular closed choir. On both sides of the choir there are two-story extensions under a pent roof. The plaster structure shows a strictly late baroque style with pilaster strips and recessed round arches. The windows are rectangular and arched. The west facade with an open staircase in front of it has a central portal-window group and a temple-like structure with giant pilasters and a mighty triangular gable with a sound tower above it with corner pilasters and arched sound windows. The tower has a pyramid roof from 1826. To the side of the portal are round-arched niches with the statues of Saints Augustine and Ambrosius. The rectangular portal has a wrought iron skylight grille and baroque wooden door leaves with fields and original fittings.
In the north of the church there are remains of tombstones from the 16th and 17th centuries in a niche. In the south of the church there is a monumental late Gothic crucifix around 1500.
The interior of the nave shows itself in rounded corners with two strongly constricted, arched, bipolar yokes with four wide side niches in segmental arch-like wall rounding for side altars. The main entrance to the west shows the arched organ loft with a curved brushing. The nave and the choir have a pilaster structure with a rich surrounding entablature. In the choir are the entrances to the sacristy and the confessional chapel, the square ancillary rooms are vaulted. The side portals in the chancel have stucco cartouches in semicircular bent-up gable fields, on the left with the coat of arms of the prioress and builder Anna Jakobina de Seitz, on the right with the monastery coat of arms and the year 1756. Above in the choir there are basket-arched oratorio windows in a stucco frame.
Furnishing
The mighty high altar from 1730/1740 was acquired by the abandoned Frauenkirche in Baden in 1790 and transferred here.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria south of the Danube 2003 . Kirchberg am Wechsel-Markt, Parish Church of St. James d. Ä., With floor plan, pp. 937–939.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 36 ′ 37 " N , 15 ° 59 ′ 27.7" E