Parish church Mitterkirchen

Mitterkirchen parish church and cemetery

The Roman Catholic parish church in Mitterkirchen is consecrated to St. Andrew and is located south of the market square and north of the cemetery in Mitterkirchen im Machland .

The late Gothic three-nave and four-bay hall church was built from sandstone blocks from a quarry in Gassolding ( Baumgartenberg municipality ). There are Romanesque wall remains on the east wall without a base . The individual vault sections of the mesh rib vault are each divided into several facets, the dividing lines of which are supported by stone ribs .

More extensive renovation work took place in the 1960s and after the flood of the century in 2002 .

geography

The church building is the parish church of the parish Mitterskirchen, a Roman Catholic parish in the deanery Perg in the region Mühlviertel in for the state of Upper Austria competent Austrian diocese of Linz in the ecclesiastical province of Vienna . The parish, which is managed under parish number 4230, looks after 1,611 Catholics who are spread across the parish of Mitterkirchen in Machland .

The parish essentially includes the villages of Am Bühel, Haid, Hart, Hofstetten, Kirchstetten and Loa in the cadastral community of Hofstetten, the villages of Gang, Hörstorf, Heinz-Lettner-Siedlung, Inzing, Langacker, Wörth and Weisching in the cadastral community of Langacker as well as the localities Hütting, Kaindlau, Labing, Lehen, Mitterkirchen and Wagra in the cadastral community of Mitterkirchen.

The parish is part of the pastoral care area Machland , to which the parishes Arbing, Baumgartenberg, Mitterkirchen and Naarn belong.

Neighboring parishes are Arbing , Baumgartenberg , Naarn , Pergkirchen in the deanery Perg and Sindelburg and Strengberg in the deanery Amstetten in the diocese of Sankt Pölten .

history

History of the parish

The name of the place was often translated with the middle church , which could mean the location between the churches in Saxen and Naarn mentioned in the 823 Confirmatio Ludovici Pii . The name could also have been derived from a field name such as Mitterfeld, which was coined during the clearing period.

In a document from 1111 it can be seen that the tithe of Mitterkirchen was to be paid to the St. Florian monastery . In 1147 Otto von Machland dedicated the Mitterkirchen parish to the Säbnich monastery , which he founded and which was later moved to Waldhausen. From 1147 until the abolition of the monastery in 1785, Mitterkirchen was the monastery parish of the monastery run by the Augustinian canons . The priests working in Mitterkirchen during this time were all religious. Due to the general shortage of priests, parishes were temporarily amalgamated and from 1606 to 1626 Mitterkirchen belonged to the Naarn together with Mauthausen , Perg , Schwertberg , Münzbach , Altenburg and Pergkirchen .

Little is still visible of the redesign of the church interior carried out at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. Among other things, the high altar and St. Mary's altar were built by the sculptor Engelbert Westreicher and new church windows in the presbytery and some statues were purchased.

In 1921, a new bell was purchased in place of the bells delivered during the First World War in 1917.

Anton Lumetsberger from Mitterkirchen was ordained a priest in 1926 and Josef Schachner from Mitterkirchen in 1956.

History of the church

Various dates attached to the building give an indication of the age of the church: The year 1482 is carved into the outer wall of the first south window and gives reason to assume that the Gothic walls with the windows date from this time. Previously, the existing church was likely to have been largely destroyed during the Hussite Wars in the 1420s and 1430s as well as by attacks by Wilhelm von Puchheim in 1466 and Christoph von Lichtenstein in 1477. The year 1547 in the nave vaults gives an indication of a very long construction period.

The church interior

In 1964/65 the church was enlarged and reorganized according to plans by the architect Anton Zemann , whereby the interventions in the old church interior remained minimal and the mediaeval structure could be preserved. The dilapidated wooden side galleries were removed. A confessional and baptistery was created on the ground floor. The people's altar can also be seen from the side aisles.

In the presbytery there is a crucifix from around 1700, restored by Alois Pössl from Wels in 1965. The main altar and ambo were made from Neuhauser granite for the renovation in 1965 . The six bronze candlesticks of the altar, the twelve apostle crosses and the tabernacle were designed by Peter Dimmel . In the altar are the relics of St. Kassian von Tignis, originally housed in the high altar . In 1963 a statue of St. Andrew was purchased, which the baroque carver Johann Paterer from Lienz in East Tyrol had created in the second half of the 17th century. The Marien Altar, which was built by two unknown masters in the first half of the 18th century, was restored and supplemented by Alois Pössl. The statues of Saint Paul and Saint Florian on the pillar of the west gallery come from the baroque furnishings of the church and were made around the middle of the 18th century. The picture of St. Nicholas hung on the west wall probably belonged to the baroque Hüttinger altar. In 1983 the church received a Stations of the Cross designed by the sculptor Thomas Pühringer . The round windows of the baptistery were designed by Rudolf Kolbitsch . Also in the baptistery is the baptismal font made of red marble from 1480, which was supplemented with a bronze lid by Peter Dimmel. The crucifixion group purchased in 1966 comes from the Schwanthaler workshop and was made around 1770 and completed by Alois Pössl.

The organ

The organ by Gottfried Seitz from Linz-Doppl has 15 registers and two manuals with mechanical action.

List of pastors from Mitterkirchen im Machland

The data was collected by Josef Grafendeder and published in the Mitterkirchen parish gazette and in the Heimatbuch:

• 1217, 1230 Chunradus (testament witness of Ulrich von Clam-Velburg )
• 1240 Herbordus
• 1413 Ueez (Utz)
• 1453, 1473 Friedrich Aichner
• 1482 Stefan Zeiler
• 1502 Pankraz Nativity
• 1532 Thomas Raudaschl
• 1586.1590 Johann Bernklau
• 1597 Leonhart Hein
• 1653 MG († July 31, 1653)
• 1675 to 1684 Andreas Wilhelm Petreius
• 1714 to 1717 Johann Georg Stangl
• 1717 to 1732 Franz Land (t) ersberger
• 1732 to 1740 Franz Karl Lösenbrand
• 1740 to 1749 Maximilian Labermayr
• 1749 to 1750 Franz Josef Zeillinger († November 4, 1750 in Mitterkirchen)
• 1750 Flridus Thaddäus Frumbald, (* 1722, † August 31, 1796 in Schwertberg), was the last provost of the former Waldhausen monastery, companion of Count Thürheim in Schwertberg, with whom he made a trip to Paris in 1778 and then resigned as provost, which the Dissolution of the pen started
• 1750 to 1757 Marcellinus Streittner
• 1757 to 1768 Thaddäus Bitzenhofer (* 1717, † January 31, 1768 in Mitterkirchen)
• 1768 to 1779 Josephus Preglauer
• 1779 Aldobrand Ruemannstorffer
• 1779–1784 Bertrand Grosschopf
• 1784 to 1789 Caesarius Regat
• 1789 to 1802 Jakob Maximilian Heinzl
• 1802 to 1821 Carl Steinhauser (* 1756 in Hohn am Berge, † December 3, 1839 there), he was the last canon of Waldhausen, holder of the civil merit medal awarded to him by Emperor Franz I in 1816, he was previously a. a. Prison chaplain in the former Baumgartenberg monastery and local pastor in Klam, and then pastor in Moosbach
• 1822 to 1825 Lambert Mayrhofer (* 1753, † February 24, 1825 in Mitterkirchen)
• 1825 to 1830 Ambros Spatz (* 1776 in Wels)
• 1831 to 1842 Joseph Strohmayr († August 6, 1842 in Mitterkirchen)
• 1843 to 1858 Lucas Schopper (* 1786 in Prachatiz, † September 4, 1858 in Mitterkirchen)
• 1859 to 1861 Franz Zach (* 1800 in Oberplan, † May 21, 1861 in Mitterkirchen)
• 1861 to 1885 Johann Haselgruber (* 1811 in Berg bei Rohrbach, † May 31, 1885 in Mitterkirchen)
• 1886 to 1892 Friedrich August Imandt (born December 4, 1838 in Düsseldorf, † April 30, 1905), was previously pastor of Waldhausen and then pastor of Ebensee
• 1892 to 1901 Josef Zöchbaur (born August 27, 1844 in Sarleinsbach, † June 30, 1909 in Urfahr)
• 1902 to 1912 Johann Hartl (born July 15, 1860 in Bad Leonfelden, † May 6, 1929), honorary citizen of the parishes of Langacker and Hofstetten, he was later pastor of Mondsee from 1912 to 1929
• 1912 to 1923 Franz Schimke (born November 29, 1866 in Brunn am Gebirge, † October 6, 1923 in Mitterkirchen)
• 1924 to 1934 Johann Ev. Bogner (born December 27, 1862 in Wiesen, † May 18, 1949 in Mitterkirchen), previously he was pastor of Arbing
• 1934 to 1935 Gregor Weeser-Krell (born March 4, 1889 in Berlin, † October 28, 1967 in Salzburg)
• 1935 to 1939 Karl Haider (born December 31, 1893 in Liebenau, † October 3, 1978 in Gallspach), was then pastor in Königswiesen
• 1940 to 1962 Karl Hahn (* July 2, 1904 in Liebenau, † December 19, 1962 in Mitterkirchen)
• 1963 to 1991 Josef Grafeneder , has been pastor of Münzbach since 1991
• 1991 Vitus Kriechbaumer (* 1955 in Haag am Hausruck)

literature

• Franz Asanger: Mitterkirchen - a historical portrait of the Machland community. Chapter 2.8. The Parish Church of Mitterkirchen - A Little Church Leader, Marktgemeindeamt Mitterkirchen im Machland (publisher), Linz 1989, p. 470ff.

Web links

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Individual evidence

1. ↑ Parish finder  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Parish 4230 queried on November 6, 2011.  
2. ↑ Perg in the culture atlas Doris - Land Oberösterreich, queried on November 6, 2011 (switch to the map boundaries of the municipalities and cadastral municipalities)
3. ↑ Statistics Austria: Ortverzeichnis Oberösterreich 2001, Vienna 2005, District Perg, pp. 205ff PDF queried on November 6, 2011.
4. ^ Franz Asanger: The parish church Mitterkirchen - A small church leader. In: Mitterkirchen - A historical portrait of the Machland community. P. 471.
5. ^ Franz Asanger: The parish church Mitterkirchen - A small church leader. In: Mitterkirchen - A historical portrait of the Machland community. P. 473.
6. ^ Franz Asanger: The parish church Mitterkirchen - A small church leader. In: Mitterkirchen - A historical portrait of the Machland community. P. 458ff.

Coordinates: 48 ° 11 '6.1 "  N , 14 ° 42' 34.59"  O