Limberg parish church
The parish church of Limberg St. Jacob is an east-facing , Romanesque , Roman Catholic church in Limberg , a cadastral parish of Maissau in Lower Austria . According to the ordinance of the Federal Monuments Office, it is under monument protection ( list entry ).
The parish is located in the dean's office Sitzendorf in the vicariate Unter dem Manhartsberg belonging to the archdiocese of Vienna .
The building is a Romanesque hall building , which is slightly elevated in the western part of Limberg.
history
In 1267 the church was first mentioned as a subsidiary church of Eggenburg . A vicariate was established for one half of the village in 1267 , to which the other half of the village was also allocated in 1282, before the parish became orphaned at the beginning of the 16th century. From 1564 it appears as a branch of Eggenburg to belong to the parish of Straning. Limberg has been an independent parish since January 1st, 1962.
Building description
Outside
The church stands on the northern side of the cemetery, which is surrounded by a medieval wall . The mighty structure from the 12th century consists of unplastered quarry stone and ashlar masonry, the defensive three-storey tower with a renewed pyramid helmet is presented on the western front between gable beds, slightly offset to the north. The pointed helmet has a tower ball with a simple cross. The nave is closed by a saddle roof, which is crowned by a patriarchal cross at the transition to the roof of the choir .
The first floor of the tower has a groin vault, the sound floor has a sound arcade of Romanesque coupled windows with squat central pillars. The cube capitals of the pillars have an ornamental relief .
The nave and choir were probably extended to the south in the 15th century. The facade is south-east by simple stepped übergiebelte buttresses with water hammer broken and a lancet windows. The other windows are designed as arched windows. On the south facade there is a late Gothic rectangular portal with a renewed lintel and a late Gothic niche with three-pass tracery .
Baroque changes on the east wall of the former Romanesque choir are marked with "1697". To the north of the choir there is a simple sacristy extension, to the west of it the remains of a walled-up Romanesque window.
Inside
Two pillars support the simple gallery , which closes the roughly square, flat-roofed hall in the west. A slightly retracted semicircular baroque triumphal arch forms the transition to a wide, shallow choir with a basket-arched barrel vault and stitch cap .
The triumphal arch, the chancel arch and with Bandlwerkstuck provided the window frames are from the period around the year 1730. A delicately grooved rectangular portal north of the choir opens to a baroque sacristy with groin vault.
In 1950 access to the gallery was made possible via the tower and the church ceiling was renewed.
Furnishing
The high altar dates from around 1700. The columned retable with a representation of James the Elder is labeled " Josef Pfeiffer 1826 " and is flanked by statues of the Saints John Nepomuk and Anthony of Padua from the beginning of the 18th century. The upper picture from the 19th century shows Mary with the child .
On both sides of the triumphal arch there are side altars of the same type with columned retables and blown gables. The altar panel of the left side altar shows Saint Sebastian as a martyr , in front of it is a statue of the Sacred Heart. On the altar sheet of the right side altar, St. Anthony of Padua is depicted, in front of which there is a statue of the Virgin Mary.
The furnishings include a baroque holy water stoup and a stone offering box with a relief of a saint with a beggar sack, presumably Felix of Cantalice from the 17th century. Two console statues and simple framed pictures of the Stations of the Cross behind glass complete the interior.
organ
The organ from the mid-18th century is adorned with rich baroque decor, carvings and putti . As can be seen from church accounts, the instrument was repaired around the middle of the 19th century. A renovation took place in June 1931 by the organ builder Wilhelm Brieger from Klosterneuburg . A new keyboard was installed, the two existing registers (Burdon 8 and Salizonal 8) were repaired and supplemented, and a tin register (4-foot prospectus) was newly set.
In 1950 the organ was dismantled as part of the renewal of the access to the gallery and renovated between June 15 and All Saints' Day . Between March 16 and 18, 1961, the instrument was cleaned, tuned and let in. Another dismantling and transport to the organ builder Ph. Eppel in Vienna took place in 1964. The instrument received an electric fan and was overhauled. The work lasted from April 6th to June 29th, 1964. In 1980 the organ was repainted.
Bells
The first reference to two bells in the parish church is found in a letter dated March 17, 1621 about war devastation during the Thirty Years' War . Two bells are also mentioned in an inventory of February 29, 1808 and July 28, 1810.
During the First World War, only one bell remained in the church, which had been manufactured by the court foundry in Vienna in 1849 and weighed 250 kilograms . In 1925 an additional new bell was commissioned from the Kuttner foundry in Vienna and consecrated on October 25, 1925. She weighed 106 kilograms.
Both bells had to be delivered in June 1942 during the Second World War as a metal donation from the German people . A small bell weighing 14 kilograms that was brought from the attic of the castle to the church tower served as a replacement.
In 1949 two new tin bronze bells were manufactured by the bell foundry Josef Pfundner in Vienna and consecrated on June 5, 1949 in the courtyard of Limberg Castle by the Abbot of Altenburg Monastery , Prelate Maurus Knappek . The price was about 12,000 shillings .
The larger “Gloria Dei” has the tone “h” and weighs 294 kilograms, the smaller “Pax hominibus” Mary's bell and the bell of the fallen have the tone “dis” and weighs 150 kilograms.
In 1969, another bell was commissioned from the Pfundner bell foundry for around 10,000 Schillings, and it was consecrated on May 11, 1969. It has the tone “f sharp”, weighs 100 kilograms and also serves as a death bell (train bell) . It bears a relief of St. Joseph as a model for the workers and the patron saint of the dying and the inscription “In memory of the first day of worship in the parish of Limberg on March 19, 1969”.
literature
- "Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Lower Austria north of the Danube. ” Edited by Evelyn Benesch, Bernd Euler-Rolle u. a. Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-7031-0652-2 , p. 673f.
- "Heimatbuch Limberg - From the past to the present" by high school supervisor Eduard Scheiterer. Publisher: City of Maissau, self-published by the City of Maissau
See also
Web links
Remarks
- ↑ If the Dehio as a "daughter church" referred
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 48 ° 35 ′ 44 ″ N , 15 ° 51 ′ 37 ″ E