Parish knives
The Roman Catholic parish church of Messern is slightly elevated in the village of Messern in the municipality of Irnfritz-Messern in the Horn district in Lower Austria . It is consecrated to St. James and is located in the Horn deanery in the diocese of St. Pölten . The building is under monument protection ( list entry ).
Location description
The church stands on a hill southeast of the village of Messern and around 300 m north of Wildberg Castle . The church is surrounded by a cemetery with a perimeter wall.
history
The core of the church dates from the 14th century. According to a document, the parish was founded in 1366 by Wernhard von Maissau and was named after Wildberg Castle until the 18th century . In 1875 a renovation took place and in 1984 the outside of the church was restored.
architecture
- Church exterior
The church is a simple, essentially Gothic building with a recently closed Gothic choir . The simple nave was redesigned in Baroque style at the end of the 17th century and extended to the west. The outer walls are sloped and not structured. Above the nave is a gable roof , which is topped by two stone gable crosses. The nave walls are broken through by arched windows. The choir is retracted and slightly lower than the nave. On the south side of the choir is a pointed arched window from the 14th century, on the east side a round arched window. The square, Gothic church tower stands in the northern corner of the choir and has square church tower windows. In the upper zone of the tower, which probably dates from around 1770, there are arched sound windows . The tower is crowned by an onion helmet from 1833. At the height of the roof of the nave is a window to the north. A chapel was added to the south of the nave at the end of the 17th century. A sacristy extension from the 19th century adjoins the choir on the north side . Next to the main portal, a grave slab for “Katharina Spindelmar” († 1611) is walled into the church facade, on the south wall of the choir a drilled grave slab with a profiled cover plate and a skull with the inscription “Eva Catharina Seebergerin, 1651”.
- Church interior
The nave has a flat roof. A circumferential profiled cornice runs beneath the flat ceiling . The west gallery in the nave was built. The square choir is vaulted with ribs . The vault rests on grooved consoles , the keystone is rosette-shaped. The basement of the tower is vaulted. There is a groin vaulted ceiling over the south chapel . This dates from the 17th century. The inside of the chapel window is arched in segments . In the choir there is a figural window from 1928.
Furnishing
The high altar is an aedicular altar from 1685 with Corinthian columns and Rococo ornaments. The altarpiece shows Saint James the Elder. On the high altar there is also a figure group of Saints Anna and Maria , as well as Saint Joseph with child from the 19th century. The Marian altar in the chapel is a wooden retable from the end of the 17th century with a column frame and a blasted segmented arch gable. The statues were created in the manner of Mathias Sturmberger in the first half of the 18th century. On the gable, St. Joseph and Child, flanked by monks, is depicted. In the central shrine is a Pietà figure from the mid-18th century. The rococo pulpit was created in the middle of the 18th century. A neo-baroque shrine with a heart of Jesus figure from the end of the 19th century stands on the triumphal arch . The picture of Saint Anthony of Padua was painted in 1936. The Stations of the Cross are from the end of the 18th century. The choir stalls and the font were created in the 17th century. The candlesticks are from the first half of the 19th century. The bell was cast around 1400.
organ
The organ was built in 1883 by Johann Marcell Kaufmann .
literature
- DEHIO manual. The art monuments of Austria: Lower Austria. North of the Danube. Knives. Parish church hl. James the Elder. Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.), Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-7031-0585-2 , p. 732.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Lower Austria - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. ( Memento from February 20, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF), ( CSV ). Federal Monuments Office , as of January 17, 2018.
- ↑ Not to be confused with his grandson Johann M. Kauffmann, born in 1910
Coordinates: 48 ° 43 ′ 8.2 ″ N , 15 ° 31 ′ 43.3 ″ E