Mank Parish Church
The Mank parish church is located in the municipality of Mank in the Melk district in Lower Austria . The the feast of the Assumption , dedicated Roman Catholic parish church belongs to the deanery Melk in the diocese of St. Poelten . The church is a listed building ( list entry ).
history
Documented 1323/1324 Vicariate, the elevation to the parish took place in 1365, which until 1784 was incorporated into the canons of St. Pölten . From 1645, an earlier pilgrimage was revived.
Restorations took place in 1911 and 1961.
architecture
A large late-Gothic relay hall from the early 16th century adjoins the choir around 1400. The outside of the church was redesigned in Baroque style. The high tower in the north choir corner is baroque.
- Church exterior
The roofs of the nave and choir as a steep uniform gable roof have a beaver tail covering. The church shows mighty buttresses and two-lane late Gothic tracery windows. The nave has a rich late Gothic shoulder portal to the north and south. The westernmost yoke of the nave was added in the 1730s and has a sober, two-zone baroque gable facade with pilasters and volute cantilevers on the side, the top behind the gable facade has a double cross of lilies, in niches are the statues Joseph with child, Anna with child, and Maria, from the second quarter of the 18th century.
The slightly drawn-in choir with a five-eighth end with a higher eaves than in the nave is accompanied by a four-storey tower with an eastern stair tower in the northern corner of the choir. The tower has a large pear-shaped onion dome, modified around 1730 and 1850 and rebuilt in the shape of 1730 in 1911. In the southern corner of the choir there is a two-storey sacristy, which is essentially late medieval, under a pent roof and with a facade from the middle of the 20th century.
At the choir there is a memorial plaque and a tombstone to Karoline Countess Seldern 1820/1821. A walled-in sculpture of a six-breasted sphinx is probably Roman.
- Church interior
The nave shows itself as a low, three-aisled, four-bay, late Gothic staggered hall under ribbed vaults and with pointed arched, wide-open arcades on octagonal pillars. The pressed vaulted shells in the central and north aisles show strictly geometric, cassette-shaped ribs made up of a square, rectangle and octagon; in the south aisle, the rib configuration is more fragmented and partly curved with net stars. The westernmost three-aisled yoke was added to the gallery in 1730 and includes a three-aisled gallery arched with a cruciform arch. The triumphal arch is ogival. The one-bay choir around 1400 has a ribbed vault on services and has an axis bend at the transition to the five-eighth end, the two-part round-arched session niche with a strong center console was built around 1510/1520, the rectangular sacraments niche shows itself with renewed tracery. On both sides of the choir there are baroque portals to the vaulted sacristy and to the tower ground floor.
The glass painting in the nave is ornamental 1910 and a window with 1975, parable of the prodigal son 1910, Paulus and Judas Thaddäus after a design by Josef Reich in 1910 executed by the glass painting company Franz Götzer.
Furnishing
The high altar around 1730 has a structure with free-standing columns and a mighty concave volute excerpt above a high, multi-staggered pedestal zone with sacrificial portals, the statues are trumpet angels on the side, angels adoring on the altar, in the middle between angels Mary with child (head names 14xx, body probably 1892 by Franz Hofer), on the entablature God the Father between Joachim and Anna.
The side altars from 1731 are columned retables with cartouches, on the left with the image of the Annunciation and the statues Florian and Leopold and Heart of Jesus from the end of the 19th century and in the extract with angels, on the right with the image of the Visitation.
The high baroque ensemble of the pulpit and the pendant group is remarkable, with a hanging pulpit with an oval basket by Hippolyt Nallenburg and Peter Widerin 1731 with the surrounding relief of the Whitsun miracle and the crowning statue Allegory of Faith, opposite on a mighty volute pedestal the group of statues Holy Family and Holy Three Kings probably Peter Widerin 1730.
The baroque organ case was built around 1731, the organ was built by Matthäus Mauracher in 1893, the organ was rebuilt by Gregor Hradetzky in 1962. There are four bells from 1949.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria south of the Danube 2003 . Mank, parish church of the Assumption, with floor plan, churchyard, rectory. Pp. 1260-1262.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 6 ′ 41 ″ N , 15 ° 20 ′ 26.9 ″ E