Parish church Maria Neustift

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Parish and pilgrimage church hll. Maria and Oswald
Northeast view of the church
Interior view towards the chancel

The Roman Catholic parish and pilgrimage church of Maria Neustift is located in the center of the municipality of Maria Neustift in the Steyr-Land district in Upper Austria . It is consecrated to St. Mary, Salvation of the Sick and St. Oswald and is a listed building .

geography

The Sanctuary is the parish church of the parish Maria Neustift, a Roman Catholic parish in the deanery Weyer in the region Traunviertel in for the state of Upper Austria competent Austrian diocese of Linz in the ecclesiastical province of Vienna .

The parish, which is managed under the parish number 4217, looks after 1755 Catholics (according to other sources 1803 Catholics), who are mainly spread over the municipality of the political municipality of Maria Neustift . The parish also includes parts of the municipality of Ertl in the federal state of Lower Austria and small parts of the municipality of Großraming in Upper Austria. In the north-west, some residents of the Neustift community belong to the neighboring parish of St. Ulrich bei Steyr . Neighboring parishes in the Diocese of Linz are the parishes of Gaflenz , Großraming and Weyer . Neighboring parishes in the diocese of St. Pölten are the parishes of Ertl and Waidhofen an der Ybbs . The parish is part of the Weyer pastoral care room.

history

Around 1124 monks from the Garsten Benedictine Abbey built a small wooden chapel. A parish of its own was founded around the year 1200. In 1490 a stone church was built. The consecration of this new church took place in 1493. The church was originally the Hl. Oswald consecrated Maria Neustift was the name of Mercy statue. This also gave rise to the patronage of Mary, Salvation of the Sick, and the name Maria Schnee . The baroque altar of grace was built in 1690 by order of Abbot Anselm von Garsten. After a storm it was decided in 1886 to rebuild the church. The nave and the choir were rebuilt according to plans by Raimund Jeblinger . The new inauguration took place in 1898.

In 1903 the Lourdes grotto was built. The tower was rebuilt in 1931. In 1944, the church bells were melted down as a " metal donation from the German people " - new bells were installed in 1951 with the help of donations from the population. From 1971 to 1974 the outside of the parish church was completely renovated. The interior was renovated from 1982 to 1983. In 1989 a new organ was installed and in 2001 the loudspeaker system was brought up to date. The exterior of the church was renovated between 2008 and 2014.

Church building

The church is a neo-Gothic building. From late Gothic construction of the two-bay choir with a 3/8-final of 1493 are only obtained, which was integrated as eastern side chapel in the new building. Furthermore, according to the stonemason's mark, parts of the tower with the new pointed helmet date from 1524.

Furnishing

High altar

The altar of grace was officially erected between 1688 and 1690 and changed in 1785 and 1908. Hans Spindler painted the sculptures with the assistance of his journeymen Georg Ländterl and Urban Remele and the carpenter Jakob Pokorny . The almost life-size statue "Maria with the Child", an important and finely felt work from 1450, is surrounded by a wreath of clouds, angels and rays. The late Gothic baptismal font has good ceiling paintings from the third quarter of the 16th century.

literature

  • Erwin Hainisch; Kurt Woisetschläger; u. a .: Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria: Upper Austria, Maria Neustift . 5th edition. Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1971, p. 192 .

Web links

Commons : Maria Neustift Parish Church  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Upper Austria - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. ( Memento from June 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) . Federal Monuments Office , as of June 28, 2013 (PDF).
  2. ↑ Parish Finder ( Memento of the original from March 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Parish 4217 queried on March 29, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dioezese-linz.at
  3. ↑ Information pages of the parish Maria Neustift. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 29, 2014 ; accessed on March 29, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / pfarre-maria-neustift.dioezese-linz.at
  4. ↑ Neustift parish in the culture atlas of Upper Austria
  5. ^ Benedikt Pillwein (Ed.): History, geography and statistics of the Archduchy of Austria on the Enns and the Duchy of Salzburg . With a register, which is also the topographical and genealogical lexicon and the district map. Geographical-historical-statistical detail according to district commissariats. 1st edition. Second part: the Traunkreis . Joh. Christ. Quandt, Linz 1828, Gschwendt District Commissioner: Neustift, Neystyfft , p. 315 f ( Google eBook ). 2nd edition 1843 ( Google Book )
  6. ↑ According to the coat of arms description .
  7. ^ History of the parish

Coordinates: 47 ° 56 ′ 14.9 ″  N , 14 ° 36 ′ 25.5 ″  E