Leonstein parish church
The Roman Catholic parish church Leonstein is located in the village of Leonstein in the municipality of Grünburg in the Kirchdorf an der Krems district in Upper Austria . It is consecrated to St. Stephen and belongs to the Molln deanery in the Linz diocese . The building is a listed building .
Location description
The church stands in a cemetery on a hill at Hambaumstrasse 2.
history
The Rohrers, to whom the " Veste Leonstein " belonged, built a church at the foot of the Hambaum around 1320, which is only known from documents, as well as a cemetery chapel. The original name under which the church was mentioned on the occasion of the parish elevation in 1367 is "Zum heiligen Stephan an der Wienne". Until then, Leonstein was a branch church of "Syrnicht" ( Sierning ). The church tower with a base of 6 × 5.5 meters is a few decades older and probably a former residential or defense tower. During the Reformation, the Zelkingers built a second chapel above the first (completed and consecrated in 1519). The old chapel was renovated and re-consecrated at the same time. At that time, the level square, secured with a high retaining wall, was laid out around the parish church. From 1590 these moved into the Protestants and the lower chapel the Catholics. Pastors worked from 1590 to 1621, even if the rule was Protestant earlier. From 1621 the pastor's post was vacant and from 1624 it was again a Catholic pastoral care post. The Lutheran Baron Christoph von Zelking had to emigrate during the Counter Reformation in 1628 and rule passed to the Catholic Counts of Salburg.
The enlarged church was consecrated again on August 31, 1743. After the extensions, the interior of the nave is 18 meters long and 7.5 meters wide. The presbytery measures three meters in length. After a redesign in the 1960s, the former high altar painting with St. Stephen is on the north side next to the Rococo pulpit. The high altar is no longer there. The organ from the 19th century was completely renovated and, after the removal of the second gallery, it was re-erected on the remaining gallery as a parapet organ. The last restoration of the church took place in 2015. The cemetery chapel is now a mortuary and has been preserved in its original design and size.
Georg Matthäus Vischer, known as a cartographer, was pastor in Leonstein from 1666 to 1668 .
Church building
- Church exterior
The church is a Romanesque building that was later changed to Baroque style . The 30 meter high west tower with a base of 6 x 5.5 meters is covered by an octagonal pyramid helmet. On the east side there is a church clock with the year 1903.
- Church interior
The single nave longhouse has two bays. Above it is a flat needle cap barrel . The one-yoke choir ends in the 3/8 end. Here, too, there is a needle cap barrel vault. A chapel is built on the north side by the middle entrance (main entrance).
Furnishing
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The pulpit is designed in the late Rococo style. There is a late Gothic crucifixion group on the rear wall of the altar. The parapet organ on the gallery dates from the 19th century, the Stations of the Cross pictures were created in the second quarter of the 18th century. On the outside of the end of the choir there is a Gothic statue of Our Lady from around 1500 and opposite on the north wall a likewise Gothic statue of the risen Christ. A picture of the Virgin attributed to Leopold Kupelwieser hangs in the attached Marienkapelle at the main entrance . This roughly life-size representation of the Mother of Good Counsel is a copy of the miraculous image of the Madonna del Buon Consiglio in Genazzano near Rome.
On the outside between the main entrance and the entrance to the sacristy there is a mount of olives with polychrome statues of Jesus praying and the sleeping disciples. The wall niche is about 1 meter high and is 3 1/4 meters long and 1 meter wide or deep. It is closed by an iron grille.
In the late Gothic chapel, which used to be the ossuary , there is the picture “ Assumption of the Virgin ”.
Cemetery and wider environment
The cemetery is located on the hill around the church and south at the foot of the hill. At the eastern entrance of the lower cemetery is the funeral hall, which also protrudes into the upper cemetery. On the west side of the upper cemetery, behind the priestly graves, there is a sculpture of St. Francis created by the wood artist Manfred Fürschuß . This sculpture was carved out of the remaining trunk of a 150 year old linden tree that was felled in 2014. It took a week to make. The trunk is about three meters high, the sculpture of St. Francis with animals is life-size. A paved area with benches was laid out for the tree sculpture. A plane tree was planted to replace the linden tree.
Side entrance of the old, upper cemetery with the tower in the background
The upper cemetery in a wintry view
Lower cemetery (view from Hambaumstrasse)
Funeral hall
Francis sculpture
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literature
- DEHIO manual. The art monuments of Austria: Upper Austria. Leonstein. Parish church hl. Stephan. Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.), Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1977, 6th edition, p. 157.
- Franz Wagner: Leonstein , Linz a. D. 1907 ( online )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Upper Austria - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. ( Memento of June 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) . Federal Monuments Office , as of June 26, 2015 (PDF).
- ↑ a b c Franz Wagner: Leonstein , Linz a. D. 1907. Chapter: The Church and Parish Leonstein , p. 69 ( online ). Accessed on January 28, 2020
- ↑ a b c gruenburg.at: Leonstein Church (historical development), accessed on January 28, 2020
- ^ Franz Wagner: Leonstein , Linz a. D. 1907. p. 54
- ^ Klaus Rumpler: Georg Matthäus Vischer and the "Topographia Austriae superioris modernae". Preface to a reprint of the Topographia Austriae superioris modernae . Wien Archiv Verlag 2005, p. 3
- ^ A b Franz Wagner: Leonstein , Linz a. D. 1907. Chapter: The parish church of St. Stephen , p. 77 ( online ). Accessed November 2, 2019
- ↑ gruenburg.at: Leonstein Church - dating of the organ and the statue of Mary and Christ, accessed on November 2, 2019
- ^ Otmar Eckhart: Renovation of the Marienkapelle in: Leonsteiner Pfarrbrief. Christmas 2007 p. 3
- ↑ Leonsteiner Pfarrbrief - Christmas 2014 p. 12 to 13 ( online, Internet Archive (December 20, 2018) ) and Leonsteiner Pfarrbrief - Easter 2015 p. 14 ( online, Internet Archive, December 20, 2018 ) Information on the Francis sculpture, more recent Square, plane tree
Coordinates: 47 ° 53 '39.6 " N , 14 ° 13' 43.8" E