Parish Church of Kottes
The parish church of Kottes stands in an elevated position in the village of Kottes in the market town of Kottes-Purk in the Zwettl district in Lower Austria . The Roman Catholic parish church consecrated to the feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary - incorporated into the Göttweig Abbey - belongs to the Deanery Spitz in the diocese of St. Pölten . The church is a listed building ( list entry ).
history
The parish was incorporated into Göttweig Abbey in a document in 1124 .
The essentially Romanesque church building was gothically changed in two phases, in the first half of the 14th century the choir and the tower substructure, in the first quarter of the 16th century the nave , and a Baroque upper floor was added. 1970 was a restoration.
architecture
The church is surrounded by the former cemetery wall. On the churchyard wall is a baroque wayside shrine with pilasters and a curved, profiled cornice from the first half of the 18th century with the figure of Johannes Nepomuk at the same time .
- Church exterior
The early Gothic west tower has a profiled pointed arch portal with a three-pass tympanum, the bell storey has round-arched sound windows from 1700 and has a renewed onion helmet from 1918. On the north side of the tower is a staircase from 1837 with a rectangular portal with profiled stone walls.
The late Gothic nave shows buttresses with double water hammer and some late Gothic tracery windows. On the south side there is a Romanesque arched gate with a studded iron door and a stepped plate of a former early Gothic tombstone with a pole cross from the beginning of the 14th century with a vestibule with a pent roof and an arched opening.
The lower early Gothic choir is pushed to the north, roughly in the axis of the north aisle of the two-aisled nave, the five-eighth end has buttresses and narrow three-pass windows. In the southern corner of the choir, the rectangular sacristy stands under a pent roof on the foundation walls of a former Romanesque chapel; the foundation walls of the round apse were discovered in 1970 during the restoration and later made recognizable in the area with paving stones. On the north side there is a rectangular extension under a pent roof from 1862 with arched windows.
The wall painting from around 1520, restored in 1970, on the south side of the tower shows Christophorus .
To the north of the church are the foundation walls and crypt vaults of the former Gothic rectangular karner with a five-eighth closure from the 15th century.
- Church interior
The square tower hall has a cross-rib vault with a rosette keystone and is remarkably flanked by three-part seating niches with early Gothic three-pass arches. The late Gothic nave is a two-aisled four-bay hall with ribbed vaults on octagonal pillars with branch decoration on the plinths. The vault is labeled 1515 in the vault. The west gallery is vaulted with net ribs and shows heraldic keystones. The pointed triumphal arch is marked 1514 on the choir side. The choir square with a five-eighth closure has a ribbed vault on round and eight-sided services and shows in relief keystones an eagle, lamb and two figural consoles with a woman's head and a devil with a coat of arms. The sacristy has a cloister vault around 1840. The north chapel has square vaults between girders.
Furnishing
The high altar around 1807 has a remarkable mixture of classical and Gothic forms as an ogival, three-part wall structure with slender columns. In the middle it bears the grace statue “Maria Berg im Tale” as a late Baroque copy of a late Gothic Madonna figure, flanked with late Baroque figures of Peter and Paul . The tabernacle has candlestick angels flanking it.
The organ from 1899 with a neo-Gothic case was restored in 1980. One bell is marked 1774.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria north of the Danube 1990 . Kottes, parish Kottes-Purk, parish church of the Assumption of Mary with floor plan, Johannes Nepomuk wayside shrine, rectory. Pp. 549-550.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 24 ′ 58.7 " N , 15 ° 18 ′ 13.7" E