Mattersburg Parish Church
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The Roman Catholic parish church Mattersburg is in a dominant position in the south of the town of Mattersburg in the Mattersburg district in Burgenland . The parish church , consecrated to St. Martin of Tours , belongs to the Mattersburg deanery in the Eisenstadt diocese . The former fortified church in the old cemetery is surrounded by a defensive wall with loopholes and is a listed building .
history
A parish was mentioned in 1344. A church was mentioned in a document in 1390. The tower shows the year 1404. The church was built in the 14th and 15th centuries. In 1659 a renovation took place. In 1683 the roof was destroyed by fire. Two aisles were added in the 18th century. In 1907 the tower was renovated after a lightning strike. In 1928 there was a renovation. In 1976 the interior of the church was restored and added extensions, an entrance hall at the church stairs, a southern chapel and a sacristy.
architecture
The three-aisled nave has a west facade with a curved volute gable. The north front has three buttresses and two pointed arch windows. The retracted late Gothic choir has single-stage buttresses and keyhole loopholes under the eaves and four pointed arched windows with renewed tracery. In the northern corner of the choir there is a four-storey tower, the lower three storeys are essentially medieval. He wears a stone pyramid helmet between corner pyramids with the inscription 1907. A baroque chapel with a semicircular apse is built on the east side of the south aisle.
The elevated central nave has two bays, each with two bays, under a late Gothic net rib vault. The core of the western masonry of the central nave was assumed to be Romanesque masonry. The coat of arms keystones with renewed painting show the indication Renoviert 1928. The organ loft above a barrel vault on mighty supports is open to the west with wide pointed arches to the side aisles. The central nave intermediate yoke in front of the choir has three cross-ribbed vaults and is probably the former tower yoke of a previous building from the 14th century. The three-bay side aisles have elongated groin vaults on pilasters. The pointed high triumphal arch is chamfered. The long choir in the width of the central nave with a five-eighth end has a delicately structured ribbed vault on shield-shaped consoles and a coffin cornice. The session niches have tracery from the 19th century. A baroque chapel from the 18th century is attached to the head of the south aisle. The chapel has an oval space with a dome over a profiled main cornice similar to the Johannes Nepomuk Chapel in Marz . The parish church was painted in 1976 after traces of paint were found, the late Gothic ribs ocher yellow with black joints.
Furnishing
The high altar around 1870 as a neo-Gothic shrine with explosions bears the figures of Saints Martin, Georg and Dorothea. The side altar in the left aisle with the mention NL 1736 is a columnar altar with entablature and top and bears the statue of Madonna in the central niche and two evangelists on the side and shows a religious saint with an angel in the top picture. The side altar on the southern triumphal arch pillar from the third quarter of the 18th century is a marble altar with entablature and shows the altarpiece St. Anthony with Christ Child and above God the Father in clouds. The side altar in the new south chapel with entablature over double columns is a plague altar and shows the altarpiece St. Sebastian with Carolus Aigen pinxit 1741 and carries statues of Saints Franz Xavier and Joseph and under a high canopy as a seated figure of St. John of Patmos. In the cafeteria there is a grotto shrine with St. Rosalia.
The remarkable pulpit from around 1700 shows small figures Salvator, Peter and Paul and the four evangelists on the basket between twisted columns and Maria Immaculata on the sound cover. The baptismal font and the sacraments are neo-Gothic from 1895. Two choir stalls show 1774. The confessional in the south aisle is from the second quarter of the 18th century. Two wooden angels in the choir are from the 18th century.
A bell is with Jacobus Montell Wr. Neustadt 1746.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Burgenland 1976 . Mattersburg, Catholic parish church hl. Martin, with floor plan, pp. 191–193.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 44 ′ 10.7 " N , 16 ° 24 ′ 6.3" E