Parish church Münzbach

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Parish church Münzbach

The Roman Catholic parish church Münzbach is consecrated to Saint Laurentius and Leonhard and is located in the market town of Münzbach in the Perg district in Upper Austria .

The building of the parish church (= former collegiate church ). The attached former Dominican monastery Münzbach , together with the church, form a U-shaped structure that encloses a courtyard in the north, east and south, which can be entered from the market through a magnificent portal.

geography

The former collegiate church is the parish church of the parish Münzbach, a Roman Catholic parish in the deanery Perg in the region Mühlviertel in for the state of Upper Austria competent Austrian diocese of Linz in the ecclesiastical province of Vienna .

parish

The parish, which is managed under parish number 4240, looks after 1,598 Catholics who, with the exception of the village of Untergaisberg, which belongs to the parish of Klam, are mainly spread over the area of ​​the market town of Münzbach. The village of Kemet, which belongs to the communities of Windhaag and Rechberg, and the parts of the village of Innernstein that belong to Bad Kreuzen belong to the parish of Münzbach.

The parish includes the villages of Danndorf, Innerstein, Saxenegg and Sulzbach in the cadastral community of Innernstein and Kreuzen and the villages of Mollnegg, Münzbach, Obergaisberg, Pilgram and Priehetsberg in the cadastral community of Münzbach.

The parish is part of the pastoral care room Perg , to which the parishes of Allerheiligen, Münzbach, Pergkirchen, Perg and Windhaag belong.

Neighboring parishes are Pergkirchen , Rechberg , Windhaag in the deanery Perg and Bad Kreuzen , Baumgartenberg , Klam and St. Thomas am bladder stone in the deanery Grein .

History of the parish

Münzbach parsonage and magnificent portal to the former cloister courtyard
Dominican monastery and parish church Münzbach ( Topographia Austriae superioris modernae )

From the 9th to the 11th century the area belonged to the mother parish of Naarn . On August 23, 1111, a Friedrich, Herr von Perg and Machland, gave his church and his property to the St. Florian Monastery . Eleven years later, on March 22, 1122, Bishop Reginmar von Passau exchanged Münzbach for Ried in der Riedmark , and on May 16, 1147 the same granted the Säbnich monastery patronage rights. The establishment of the parish itself is unknown, in 1217 a Magister Gottschalkus is mentioned as the first pastor. The Münzbach settlement is referred to as a market in documents from 1251, 1271 and 1303 and belongs to the Windhaag rule .

On May 17, 1331, the Münzbach parish was again incorporated into the Waldhausen monastery and this was confirmed on July 10, 1477 by Alexander Numai , Bishop of Forli and by Pope Sixtus IV. On May 14, 1483 in Avignon .

Until 1343, the Münzbach parish also extended to the area of St. Thomas am Blasenstein , the Münzbach branch church in St. Thomas was designated as independent in 1358. In the 14th and 15th centuries, a number of foundations were recorded and there were brotherhoods with their own church services and devotions. Like others in the Mühlviertel, the church was probably destroyed during the Hussite Wars (1419–1434 / 39). The late Gothic church was then rebuilt, with the remains of this structure still being preserved.

After the first Turkish siege of Vienna , the Waldhausen Abbey sold the Münzbach parish on July 18, 1530 with papal, episcopal and sovereign approval to pay war taxes to Anna of Prague, Baroness von Windag and her sons . Thereafter Münzbach belonged to various noble families. Archduke Maximilian acquired the parish and the market in 1588 and enfeoffed Lorenz Schütter von Klingenberg .

Under the influence of Schütter's rule, Luther's doctrine spread in Münzbach and ultimately all subjects except eleven courts were Protestant. A relative of the Schütter, Georg Kirchhamer founded a Latin school in Münzbach in 1591 and Magister Valentinus Lang became a pastor at the Münzbach church.

In the course of the Counter Reformation , all Protestant priests were expelled and those who did not convert back to the Catholic faith were deprived of their belongings. On June 12, 1627, Münzbach came to the Baumgartenberg monastery and Cistercians took over pastoral care in the parish.

On August 19, 1636, Joachim Enzmilner bought the Windhaag lordship, including bailiwick and feudal lordship over Münzbach, for 50,000 guilders . On August 17, 1641, through a settlement, he acquired the Latin school, which had been closed since 1625, and converted it into a Catholic alumnate under the supervision of Dominicans .

In 1654 a fire devastated most of the market, with only the Gothic church remaining. Starting in 1662, Enzmilner built the Dominican Monastery of Münzbach on the ruins of the rectory and the collegiate school, which was handed over to its destination in 1664 and was intended for 9 priests and three brothers from the order. The foundation stone for the new construction of the monastery church took place on October 12, 1664. In the course of the construction work, the tower was raised by two floors and completed with a dome. The church consecration took place in 1669.

It was incumbent on the Dominicans

In 1784 the monastery was abolished. Prior Albert Wittmann († 1800) was allowed to remain as pastor. The church's furnishings were partially sold, the collegiate school was closed and given to the religious fund as a parsonage. Most of the monastery building was converted into the Linz infirmary, which temporarily housed up to 150 sick people. Meierhof and Pfarrerwald were sold to private individuals.

Church building

The Münzbach parish church stands at the east end of the elongated market square and can be reached via the two stairways that were built in 1971 at the place of a wide church staircase. The 42 meter high church tower is on the west side of the church. The lower part of the tower dates from the Middle Ages. The tower gate shows late Gothic forms.

On the south side of the church there are five Gothic pillars and the south portal. Five large windows and an equal number of oval windows on the south side as well as six large windows and gallery lights on the north side give light to the interior.

The Münzbach parish church is described by Dehio as a three-aisled pillar basilica with a stabbed cap barrel in the central nave, cross vaults in the side aisles and galleries. The keystones on the organ gallery and above the south entrance come from older church buildings.

Church interior

Grave monument of Joachim Enzmilner
The ordination of Maria Einsiedeln (1750) by Kremser Schmidt

In 1793 and 1794 the still existing high altar in the style of Louis XVI. created, as well as the tabernacle, the statues of the church patrons Saint Laurentius and Saint Leonhard.

In the church are the tombs of various patron saints, including the Protestant Lorenz Schütter von Klingenberg († 1599) and the counter-reformer Joachim Enzmilner von Windhaag († 1678).

During the First World War , the bells had to be delivered for war purposes. In 1922 two new bells were purchased, but they were drawn in together with the previously remaining bell in World War II .

The Münzbach parish church was last restored outside in 1949 and inside in 1954. The church heating was installed in 1971. The church's remarkable art treasures include the epitaph of Lorenz Schütter from the end of the 16th century, a monstrance from 1684, a chalice from 1700, the high altar by Anton Hitzenthaler from 1793/94 as well as pictures by Clemens Beutler and Kremser Schmidt .

organ

Franz Lorenz Richter organ from 1764

The organ maker Franz Lorenz Richter built an organ for the Dominican Church in Münzbach in 1764 , and Franz Joseph Schwartzmayr built the case for it in 1775. Age and woodworm infestation as well as several modifications impaired the originality of the baroque organ , so that in 1993, after many years of preparation, it was returned to its original state and decided to restore the organ. The work was carried out in the Upper Austrian Organ Building Institute in Sankt Florian near Linz in collaboration with Bernhardt Edskes . The frame and gilding of the organ case was done by the Helmut Krump company.

The organ, with a short octave , has the following disposition :

I Manual CDEFGA – c 3
Principal 8th'
Copel 8th'
flute 4 ′
Octave 4 ′
Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Super octave 2 ′
Mixture V 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ + 2 ′
II Manual CDEFGA – c 3
Dumped 8th'
Principal 4 ′
flute 4 ′
Octav 2 ′
Pedal CDEFGA-G sharp 0
Sub bass 16 ′
Octavbass 8th'
Violon bass II 8 ′ + 4 ′
trombone 16 ′
Remarks
  1. ↑ C – E Holz, F – h 2 in the brochure
  2. ↑ a b wood
  3. ↑ a b c wood (open)
  4. ↑ a b c d e tin
  5. ↑ prospectus, tin
  6. ↑ a b wood (covered)
  7. ↑ 12 tones, repeating, 17 keys.
  8. ↑ Wooden cup

literature

  • Josef Lohninger: The rule of the lords of Perg, Machland and Klam . 1917.
  • Marianus Hyacinthus Topographia Windhagiana . Vienna 1673.
  • Franz Xaver Pritz: Contributions to the history of Münzbach . Vienna 1855.
  • Josef Rainer: Dr. Josef Salzmann's life and work . St. Louis 1876.
  • Dehio-Hainisch: Art Monuments of Austria . Vienna 1958.
  • Benno Ulm : The Mühlviertel . Salzburg 1971.
  • Marktgemeinde Münzbach (Ed.): Münzbach, Land and People - Yesterday and Today . Ried im Innkreis 2010.

Web links

Commons : Pfarrkirche Münzbach  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Folder of the parish church Münzbach  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 579 kB) accessed on October 16, 2011.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.dioezese-linz.at  
  2. ↑ Parish finder  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Parish 4240 queried on November 6, 2011.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.dioezese-linz.at  
  3. ↑ Münzbach parish in the culture atlas Doris - Land Oberösterreich, queried on November 6, 2011 (switch to the map boundaries of the communities and cadastral communities)
  4. ↑ Statistics Austria: Ortverzeichnis Oberösterreich 2001, Vienna 2005, District Perg, pp. 205ff google.at queried on November 6, 2011.
  5. ↑ Ulrich, Bishop of Passau, confirms the possessions of the St. Florian Monastery, in particular the possessions of the parishes Münzbach and Wartberg . In:  Upper Austrian document book . Volume 2, No. XCVII, Lorch, 23 August 1111, p. 139.
  6. ↑ Reginmar, Bishop of Passau, gives the St. Florian monastery the parish Ried (near Mauthausen) for Münzbach in exchange . In:  Upper Austrian document book . Volume 2, No. CIV, Lorch, March 22, 1122, p. 157.

Coordinates: 48 ° 16 ′ 1 ″  N , 14 ° 42 ′ 56 ″  E