Parish church Mehrnbach
The Mehrnbach parish church is located in the municipality of Mehrnbach in Upper Austria . The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Martin belongs to the deanery Ried im Innkreis in the Diocese of Linz . The church is a listed building .
history
A church in Mehrnbach was mentioned in 1166 in the 5th Passau Codex. Because of the patronage of St. Martin Konrad Meindl adopted an early Franconian settlement in Mehrnbach. In the first few years after the village was founded, Aurolzmünster ( Parish Church Aurolzmünster ) looked after it as a branch, but quickly developed into an independent parish under canon law and became the seat of a pastor. In 1350, Ried im Innkreis ( Ried im Innkreis parish church ) became a parish, as it outperformed Mehrnbach in terms of economic development. Now a branch of Ried, the church became a vicariate church in 1450 . In the second half of the 16th century Mehrnbach was Protestant and was administered by a Protestant pastor. Originally subordinate to the Diocese of Passau , Mehrnbach came to the Diocese of Linz in 1784, was added to the Archdiocese of Salzburg in 1810, and then returned to Linz in 1816. In 1784 the previous branch church in Neuhofen im Innkreis was separated and raised to the parish church of Neuhofen im Innkreis . In 1814 Mehrnbach was raised to an independent parish by the Salzburg lords and in 1830 again downgraded to vicariate by the bishop in Linz. The church has been a parish church again since 1891.
architecture
The cemetery originally located around the church became too small and was abandoned when the federal road was widened and moved to the north-western end of the village in 1956.
The originally single-nave, four-bay, wide central nave and the slightly retracted single-bay choir with a five-eighth end are vaulted with mesh ribs. The triaxial west gallery is arched with net ribs. The sacristy has a ribbed vault. The Gothic west tower with an octagonal structure has a pointed helmet (53 m high). The three lower tower floors show a late Romanesque core with the arrangement of the windows . Subsequently, the church was gothically extended with two different (unequal width, unequal rib configuration, unequal column arrangement) side aisles until 1736 . The south aisle has a late Gothic single-wing stone portal; the garment, decorated with pear sticks, is vaulted by a pointed arch made of conglomerate (1520). This gate, with its shouldered arch as a lintel, typical of the late Gothic, indicates that the south aisle is the older of the two aisles. The church and sacristy doors are late Gothic shod.
Furnishing
The high altar around 1690/1700 with its remarkable figures was assigned to the baroque sculptor Thomas Schwanthaler and his workshop. He bears the figure of Martin in the middle, surrounded by a peasant and citizen in adoration, two angels and two putti. The assistant figures Sebastian and Rochus are on the left and right. In the middle of the upper zone is the Trinity with an angel carrying the globe with the flanking figures Nikolaus von Myra and Augustinus with angels and putti. The altar closes at the top with the figure of Archangel Michael with soul scales and sword . The tabernacle with the depiction of the Holy Communion and the flanking figures Nikolaus von Flue and Pope Pius X was created by the sculptor Hans Freilinger .
The north left side altar in the Rococo style was created around 1770/1790 by Johann Peter Schwanthaler the Elder and his workshop. It shows the oil painting Laurentius of Rome kneeling in front of Sixtus II and flanking the figures John the Baptist and Joseph of Nazareth and in an upper medallion Peter and Paul. The southern right side altar of what is probably another workshop bears figures by Johann Peter Schwanthaler the Elder. In the middle he carries the figure Leonhard von Noblac with two peasants in adoration and on the side flanking the figures Katharina and Barbara and above Anna Maria teaching reading .
In the baptistery or burial chapel or Wehinger chapel named after an old, extinct noble family of Riegerting Castle , a simple altar canteen with tabernacle carries a baroque Madonna in a halo, holding the blessing Christ with a globe in her left hand. The figure of the dove of the Holy Spirit hangs above it . On both sides of the altar are four late Gothic relief panels Annunciation, Christmas, Presentation in the Temple and Death of Mary around 1520/1525, which were transferred from the former winged altar of the Waldzell parish church and restored in 1955/56.
On the back wall of the north aisle is a crucifix by Johann Peter Schwanthaler the Younger (1826).
The Gothic polygonal baptismal font made of red marble carried a baptismal group by Thomas Schwanthaler around 1740. The baptismal group is now on loan to the Innviertler Volkskundehaus Museum .
Inside and outside there are tombstones from the 16th to the 18th centuries. Particularly noteworthy is the gravestone for the painter Wolfgang Reitter, who died in 1513, with the artist's coat of arms, as a work by the sculptor Jörg Gartner from Passau.
Bells
A bell from 1697 weighs 330 kg and was cast in the Grassmayr bell foundry. After the Second World War , the ringing was completed again on four bells.
| Overview of the bells | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Surname | Mood | Dimensions | Casting year | ||
| Big bell (warrior) | e | 1,041 kg | 1949 | ||
| Ave bell (youth) | G | 618 kg | in 1974 | ||
| Fire bell (Leonhardi) | a | 439 kg | 1949 | ||
| Provision bell (food) | H | 330 kg | anno 1697 | ||
literature
- Mehrnbach, parish church hl. Martin. In: The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Upper Austria. By Erwin Hainisch , revised by Kurt Woisetschläger , forewords to the 3rd edition (1958) and 4th edition (1960) by Walter Frodl . Sixth edition, Verlag Anton Schroll & Co., Vienna 1977, p. 196.
- Herbert Nimeth: Parish Church Mehrnbach. Photos by Franz Trost, foreword by deacon Hans Traunwieser. Art guide, Parish Mehrnbach, Mehrnbach 2015, 28 pages.
Web links
https://www.dioezese-linz.at/mehrnbach
Individual evidence
- ↑ 5. Passau Codex, Urk.Bl519.
Remarks
- ↑ The following entry can be found in the parish archives of Taiskirchen : “Thomas Stöger, Pastor Lutheri 1584, is buried in Utzenaich , but was buried by the clergy according to the old Catholic rite. He had three children ... the other was a pastor in Mehrnbach. This Lutheran pastor in Mehrnbach, it is reported, married a daughter of the Lutheran pastor of Waizenkirchen . "
Coordinates: 48 ° 12 '28 " N , 13 ° 26' 6.7" E