Parish Church Münzkirchen

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Catholic parish church of the Assumption in Münzkirchen

The Roman Catholic parish church Münzkirchen is located in Münzkirchen in the market town of Münzkirchen in the district of Schärding in Upper Austria . The church, consecrated on the Assumption of Mary , belongs to the deanery of Schärding in the diocese of Linz . The church and the cemetery are under monument protection .

history

A church was documented around 1030. At the time of the early church organization in the Middle Ages, Münzkirchen formed its own original parish . Like the parish of St. Weihflorian , it consisted of areas that originally belonged to the parish of St. Severin in Passau's Innstadt . In 1182, St. Severin and the "Innbruckamt" responsible for the administration of the Inn Bridge were incorporated into the St. Aegidien Hospital in the city center . Since then, the “Innbruckamt” has also administered the parishes incorporated into the hospital, which were to be assigned by the respective “Bruck pastor”. In addition to St. Severin with Schardenberg and Wernstein , these included St. Weihflorian , Kellberg , Hauzenberg , Kopfing , Münzkirchen and Tettenweis .

The Gothic church building was expanded in the Baroque.

architecture

The three-aisled, four-bay nave was probably extended from a single-nave Gothic nave in the 17th century. The nave has a groin vault. The north aisle has three bays with the tower in the fourth east bay. The slightly retracted one-bay cross-rib vaulted choir has a five-eighth end . The north tower - occupying the eastern yoke of the north aisle, consists of Gothic quarry stone masonry with loopholes, the top is eight-sided and has a baroque helmet from 1720.

Furnishing

The high altar from 1761 bears a Gothic statue of the Virgin Mary from the end of the 15th century, partly overcarved and restored in 1953.

literature

  • Münzkirchen, parish church Mariae Himmelfahrt. S. 207. In: The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Upper Austria. By Erwin Hainisch , reworked by Kurt Woisetschläger , prefaces to the 3rd edition (1958) and 4th edition (1960) by Walter Frodl , sixth edition, Verlag Anton Schroll & Co., Vienna 1977.

Web links

Commons : Parish Church of the Assumption of Mary (Münzkirchen)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johann Ev. Lamprecht : Description of the kk landesfürstl. Gränzstadt Schärding am Inn and its surroundings. Wels 1860, p. 276.
  2. ^ Franz Mader , Parish history of the parish of St. Severin ( online , accessed on September 26, 2018).
  3. ^ Hugo Lerch: The dispute between the Passau canon and Innbruckmaster Johann von Malenthein with the Passau cathedral chapter 1544–1549. In: Ostbairische Grenzmarken 6 (1962/1963), pp. 249–261, here pp. 250–251. - Theodor Ebner: The anti-giant estuary. In: Yearbook of the Upper Austrian Museum Association. Volume 148, Linz 2003, pp. 257–284 ( PDF (2.2 MB) on ZOBODAT ), here p. 279. - Johann Ev. Lamprecht : Description of the kk landesfürstl. Gränzstadt Schärding am Inn and its surroundings. Wels 1860 ( online ), pp. 275-276. - Johann Ev. Lamprecht : Historical-topographical register or historical local directory of the land ob der Enns, as an explanation of the map of the land ob der Ens in its shape and division from the 8th to the 14th centuries , Vienna 1863 ( online ), pp. 133, 212.

Coordinates: 48 ° 29 '4 "  N , 13 ° 34' 14.1"  E