Parish church Maiersdorf
The Roman Catholic parish church Maiersdorf is in Maiersdorf in the municipality of Hohe Wand in Lower Austria . The parish church of St. John the Baptist - incorporated into Heiligenkreuz Abbey - has been part of the Neunkirchen dean's office in the Vicariate Unter dem Wienerwald of the Archdiocese of Vienna since September 1st, 2016 . Before that she was part of the dean's office in Wiener Neustadt . The former fortified church is a listed building .
history
The Romanesque church building from the 12th century was later topped up with a Gothic top floor. The church is mentioned in 1379 as a branch church of Muthmannsdorf ( St. Peter im Moos ). The village and Muthmannsdorf had been owned by the Rein Abbey since the 13th century , which they later sold to the Seckau Monastery . In 1662 Maiersdorf and Muthmannsdorf von Stift Seckau took possession of the Neukloster in Wiener Neustadt; In 1783 it was cut out of the Muthmannsdorfer Sprengel and raised to an independent parish. Since 1881, when the new monastery was merged with Heiligenkreuz Abbey, the parish has been looked after by fathers from the Vienna Woods Monastery.
In 1964, as part of an extension, a remarkable wooden side gallery, probably the remainder of a former battlement, was removed. In 1997 an interior restoration with excavations was carried out.
architecture
The fortified church, visible from afar, stands on a rock terrace in front of the Hohe Wand ridge .
The mighty two-storey Romanesque choir tower - weakened by the two-storey nave of the same height - has a high entrance on the south side and has a small bell tower-like bell tower.
The high two-storey nave shows high-quality Romanesque masonry with layers of ashlar and a foundation step with stone layers of Pietrarasa masonry with trowel marks. The facade has high Romanesque arched windows, a pointed arch window from the 14th century, and a baroque window in the lower area. The upper floor is a Gothic defensive structure made of warehouse masonry with herringbone compartments from the 14th century. Slit-like loopholes are under the eaves. The north wall has no windows. Around 1680, a two- bay cross barrel vault was drawn in instead of the wooden ceiling .
On the west side there is a low extension of a nave extension with a vestibule under a hipped roof and on the north side a sacristy extension, both from 1964.
Furnishing
A gothic stone canteen made of ashlar with a reliquary compartment was removed in 1997 and rebuilt further to the west in different dimensions. Behind it stands the baroque high altar as a high baroque frame retable from the beginning of the 18th century. The high altar sheet of John the Baptist was painted by Franz Josef Dobiaschofsky (1848). The upper image of the Holy Spirit is from the first half of the 18th century.
The sacrament niche in the presbytery is framed by a wall painting from around 1430, which shows Christ as the Man of Sorrows flanked by angels with the instruments of suffering .
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria south of the Danube 2003 . Maiersdorf, parish church hl. Johannes d. T., Pfarrhof, pp. 1258-1259.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dehio, Lower Austria south of the Danube , (Horn 2003), pp. 1257–1259.
Coordinates: 47 ° 49 '17.3 " N , 16 ° 2' 57.7" E