Kritzendorf parish church
The Roman Catholic parish church Kritzendorf is located in Kritzendorf , a village that belongs to the Lower Austrian municipality of Klosterneuburg . It is consecrated to Saint Vitus and subordinate to the Klosterneuburg deanery .
description
The sacred building is a single-nave, late Gothic building with an east-facing 5/8 choir closure and a west-facing tower from the 15th century. At the beginning of the 1890s, the tower was raised and given a pointed helmet. In 1896 the rectory on the south side was demolished and a weekday chapel and a sacristy in neo-Gothic style by the builder Josef Schömer (1857-1942) were added to the church. The entrance to the sacristy is adorned with two baroque stone statues from the 18th century depicting St. Anthony of Padua and the martyr John Nepomuk .
The interior is simple, with a folk altar , a hanging crucifix and variable, bright seating. The cross-shaped baptismal font sunk into the ground was built in the course of the interior restoration carried out in 1994. The stained glass in the middle window of the apse comes from the workshop of the glass and landscape painter Carl Geyling in 1856. It depicts three martyrs: Saint Vitus, who is boiled in boiling oil, his tutor and companion Modestus and his nurse Crescentia , including the monastery coat of arms and viticulture equipment. The organ dates from 1881, was built by the Klosterneuburg organ builder Franz Reusch (1817–1887) and restored in 2014.
history
The construction of the church began in 1460 between Ober- and Unterkritzendorf, which were two separate villages at the time, and was completed in 1477. Since the Kritzendorfer had become Protestant in the middle of the 16th century, they were re-Catholicized in 1586 by imperial order, on this occasion the consecration date of the church was determined as May 17, 1489, the church was subordinated to the parish church of St. Martin as a branch and thus incorporated into Klosterneuburg monastery .
As a result of the Josephine reforms, it was finally elevated to a parish church. It is still assigned to Klosterneuburg Monastery, which also provides the priests.
In the course of the renovations in the 1990s, pastor Dr. Andreas Redtenbacher introduced the Latin name "St. Vitus". The current pastor is Dipl. Ing. Mag. Reinhard Schandl, also canon of Klosterneuburg Abbey.
The adjacent cemetery also belongs to the parish. On the side wall of the funeral hall is the so-called war welfare mosaic, a rare form of war nails .
literature
- Federal Monuments Office (ed.): Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Lower Austria, south of the Danube , part 1. Verlag Berger, Horn / Vienna 2003, page 1113f, ISBN 3-85028-364-X .
- Wilhelm Hager / Raimund Hofbauer, "Kritzendorf". In: Klosterneuburg, History and Culture, Vol. 2: Die Katastralgemeinden , Klosterneuburg-Wien: Mayer & Comp, 1993. p. 41 ff. (Chapter "Church and Religion")
- Franz Xaver Schweickhardt : Presentation of the Archduchy of Austria under the Ens , Volume 3, page 25 ; Vienna 1831 (the assumption of a predecessor church contained therein was - as well as the sequence of medieval manors - meanwhile by Wilhelm Hager / Raimund Hofbauer, "Kritzendorf". In: Klosterneuburg, Geschichte und Kultur, Vol. 2: The cadastral communities , Klosterneuburg-Vienna: Mayer & Comp, 1993. p. 41 ff. Refuted.)
Web links
- Parish of St. Vitus Kritzendorf: Our church
- Entry on the parish church of Kritzendorf in the Austria Forum (chapter sacred buildings)
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Karl Resperger organ": parish newsletter St. Vitus 10-12 / 2014, page 2
- ^ Raimund Hofbauer: "How did the church get into the village?", In: Our Kritzendorf 2/2008
Coordinates: 48 ° 19 ′ 39.6 ″ N , 16 ° 18 ′ 7.7 ″ E