Parish church Naarn

Parish church in Naarn in the Machlande

The parish church of Naarn in the market town of Naarn im Machlande in Upper Austria's Mühlviertel is a three-aisled Gothic hall church . It is consecrated to St. Michael and is surrounded by the local and parish cemetery, east of the Naarner Marktplatz.

The church is 37 meters long and 13 meters wide. The tower has a height of 45 meters plus the 2 meter high tower cross. In the ball under the cross there are coins and documents from the renovation years 1858 and 1989.

geography

The building is the parish church of the parish Naarn, 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 . This is managed within the church administration with the parish number 4242 and looks after 3,051 Catholics, who are mainly distributed over the municipality of the market town of Naarn.

The Naarn parish is responsible for the administration of the local and parish cemetery. The former Karner serves as a funeral hall. The parish is part of the pastoral care area Machland , to which the parishes Arbing, Baumgartenberg, Mitterkirchen and Naarn belong.

Neighboring parishes are Mauthausen , Mitterkirchen , Perg , Pergkirchen and Schwertberg in the diocese of Linz and, separated by the Danube in the diocese of Sankt Pölten, the parishes of Sankt Pantaleon in the dean's office in Haag and Strengberg in the dean's office in Amstetten .

history

Mother Parish Naarn

Year of construction	parish
1122	Altenburg (1785 Windhaag)
1122	Münzbach
1142	Pergkirchen
1147	Königswiesen
1150	Mitterkirchen
1357	Schwertberg
1357	Weitersfelden
1372	Pierbach
1500	Unterweißbach
1542	Perg
1573	Schönau in the Mühlkreis
1621	Zell near Zellhof
1633	Arbing
1633	St. Thomas on the bladder stone
1633	Carrying wine
1656	Rechberg
1757	Liebenau
1779	Mönchdorf
1784	Kaltenberg
1833	All Saints Day

History of the parish

middle Ages

In the year 823 Nardinum was first mentioned in the document Confirmatio Ludovici Pii , the first mention of the church itself comes from the year 853. The parish of Naarn, which originally belonged to the diocese of Passau , is one of the three original parishes of Ried in der Riedmark and Saxen lower Mühlviertel . In the middle of the 9th century Naarn was likely to have emerged as an independent parish from Mistelbach near Wels or Lorch . At the Synod of Mistelbach held by Bishop Pilgrim von Passau in 985 , Naarn was named as the only Passau baptismal district north of the Danube . In the 13th century, the Naarn dean's office in the Archdeaconate Lorch had an extension in north-south direction from the Danube to today's Czech border and in west-east direction from the Kleine Mühl to the northern Upper Austrian / Lower Austrian border.

Naarn is the direct or indirect mother parish for 20 parishes in the area between Aist and Naarn , which were gradually removed from the Naarn parish between 1122 and 1833 (see table).

In the late Middle Ages, members of the reform movement Waldensians (1266) and Anabaptists (1268) were found in the parish of Naarn and around 40 localities in the country . However, these were driven out or forced to resist secretly.

The bailiwick of the parish church was given by the sovereign to the chaplains, who exercised this office from the rule of Steyregg, before 1320. The Steyregger Bailiwick did not end until 1857.

An incomplete list of the names of the Naarner pastors from the Middle Ages begins in 1220 with Heinrich von Naerden and ends in 1492 with Wolfgang Müncher.

Reformation, Counter-Reformation and Catholic Renewal

The manorial rule of the Baumgartenberg monastery affected 66 farms subject to tax in the Naarn parish. Other courtyards in the parish belonged to the monasteries Erla , Sankt Florian , Waldhausen and Pulgarn . Between 1599 and 1622 the diocese of Passau was in dispute with the evangelical owners of the Steyregg rule , the Jörgern , regarding the Naarn parish, as they claimed not only the bailiwick but also the feudal rule at the expense of the diocese.

In Naarn there were Catholic pastors from 1492 to 1597, whereby Pastor Lukas Adelgaisz was expelled by the rebellious farmers in 1597. From 1597 to 1607 the parish of Naarn had evangelical preachers . From 1607 to 1610 there were two Catholic pastors in Naarn, then until 1624 there were Protestant preachers again. From 1624 to 1633 the parish was not occupied.

There were peasant uprisings in Machland in 1596 under a senior ringleader, Hans Ortner, from the Naarn parish. During the peasant war on June 12, 1626 a peasant captain moved with the well-fortified peasantry from Hütting , Mitterkirchen and Naarn via Enns to Ebelsberg to unite with the large peasant army. An insurgent gang appeared in front of the Baumgartenberg monastery and asked the abbot to hand over the monastery to the farmers, who, however, persuaded them to leave. The moderate behavior of the peasants paid off after the peasant uprisings were put down by largely refraining from occupying the Machlands.

The decrees in the course of the Counter Reformation , which was operated in the area in particular by Joachim Enzmilner , concerned the bailiwick and the patronage of the parishes of Perg, Naarn and Arbing , which in future should no longer belong to the manor of Windhaag , but to the abbot of Baumgartenberg. The parishes were incorporated into the monastery with the consent of the Bishop of Passau.

Josephine Reform

With the Josephine reforms , the Diocese of Linz was established in 1785 and the parish network was expanded, with each parish with more than 700 Catholics being given its own parish church. Cemeteries and tombs in the local area had to be closed. The institute for the poor, initiated by the state, looked after 28 poor parishioners in Naarn in 1793, for example. The funds were initially raised through nursing offices, the setting up of sacrificial sticks, sacrificial money, etc. In 1828, a contribution was collected from the houses with grounds (parish holden) for the institute for the poor. The institute for the poor was not closed until 1938.

Parish school

From the 16th century there was a parish school in Naarn, which was housed in the sacristan's house. In 1879 a new school was built by the state.

History of the parish church

The construction of the church in Naarn was first mentioned in documents in 853. As the successor to one or more no longer verifiable wooden churches , the Romanesque church, which still exists today, was built from exposed brickwork with a nave and choir . The church was redesigned in baroque style from 1730 to 1732. In 1898 the new sacristy was built in the southern corner of the choir . The church was thoroughly renovated inside and out in 1971 and 1991.

The church interior was last renovated in autumn 2012.

architecture

Building outside

The nave has no base , the Romanesque arched windows are walled up. In the west yoke , a walled-up Romanesque arched portal can be seen to the north and south . At the corners there are Romanesque eaves stones with sculptures .

The late baroque arched windows date from the 18th century. When the baroque ceiling was installed, the west wall was probably rebuilt using the Romanesque ashlar with a Gothic base. Walled up late Gothic pointed arch windows can be seen in the choir .

The tower was built in the middle of the 15th century. The upper part and the pointed helmet were added in 1858 when the tower was raised by nine meters. On the east side of the tower there is a painted dial with a coat of arms and the year 1686, reminding of a renovation. The oldest bell , the Elferin, bears the year 1541.

Building inside

The 37 meter long nave has four bays and is 13 meters wide. The church has Romanesque outer walls on the sides, while the west wall is Gothic. The main nave has a baroque barrel-shaped basket arch vault with deep stitch caps and strap arches . There is a monastery vault on the southern porch of the portal . The Gothic building dates from the 15th century.

When the church was made Baroque between 1730 and 1732, the gothic central pillars were removed and the baroque vaults retracted. In the northern choir corner is the tower chapel, which previously served as a sacristy before the new sacristy was built in the southern choir corner in 1898 . The vaults of the choir are emphasized by stucco bands, the baroque window frames also have segmented gables and are decorated with stucco .

The organ gallery is late Gothic and rests on a ribbed vault with octagonal pillars. In front of the parapet are the statues of St. Charles Borromeo and St. John Nepomuk .

At the southern entrance to the church, a plaque installed in 1985 commemorates the Roser family of musicians who worked as schoolmasters and organists in Naarn for three generations from 1684 to 1795.

Tower chapel

The tower chapel, designed as a Lourdes grotto , was inaugurated in 1912 and renovated in 1971. The Sacred Heart statue from the end of the 19th century comes from the former neo-Romanesque side altar. In 1971 the Romanesque column capital and the column base from the first half of the 13th century were found. In the chapel there is also a Lourdes Mother of God and a statue of St. Bernadette, as well as an octagonal granite holy water font from the end of the 19th century. In 2012 the chapel was redesigned by Elisabeth Czihak .

sacristy

In the sacristy there is a panel with small high reliefs depicting Saint Mary on the crescent moon and Saints Sebastian, Rochus and Rosalia. The picture comes from the Auerkapell, was washed ashore during the flood in 1682 and has been kept in the sacristy in Naarn since 1711.

Furnishing

Facility

The high altar of the parish church was built in 1732 by the Linz sculptor Johann Georg Derfler . The altar substructure in Salzburg marble was added in 1911. In the altar are the relics of several saints known by name in reliquary capsules.

The altarpiece was painted in the Nazarene style in 1858 and shows the church patron Archangel Michael , on the left the ship's saint Erasmus with the ship's spindle and on the right St. Wolfgang with book and church. The altarpiece consists of the Most Holy Trinity, on the left a statue of St. Francis of Assisi and on the right a statue of St. Anthony of Padua .

The ceiling paintings in the three bays of the nave and in the chancel were installed by Tyrolean wall painters in 1895. The pictures on the windows were created in 1912 in the neo-renaissance style .

Under the crucifixion group from 1700 there is a twelve-sided late Gothic font made of red marble with a base and a copper inner shell with the year 1579. On the right side is a statue of the Virgin Mary from the former side altar.

organ

In 1999, the Verschueren Orgelbouw organ building company in Holland installed a new organ with a manual and pedal and 13½ stops in the baroque case, which was also new . The organ previously in use and built by Josef Mauracher in St. Florian with 13 registers and three double slides was sold.

Bells

The oldest bell, the Elferin , was cast in 1541 by master Stefan from Budweis , from whom one of the bells in Pabneukirchen also comes. In addition to the year 1541, the Elferin bears an inscription and pictures. It is 91 centimeters in diameter, weighs 548 kilograms and is tuned to the h tone. Instead of the 12-bell bells with 931 kilograms from 1735, which were delivered during the First World War and two other bells, new bells were hung in 1923, which, however, had to be delivered again a few years later during the Second World War. The replacement took place in 1949.

See also

Other buildings in the parish of Naarn:

• Pilgrimage Church of Maria Laab
• Flößerkapelle (Au an der Donau)

literature

• Edmund Traxler: Naarn im Machlande - contributions to the history of the parish Naarn. Parish office Naarn im Machlande (editor), Linz 2009.

Web links

Commons : Parish Church Naarn  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Homepage of the parish at dioezese-linz.at.
• Information about the parish on the parish homepage

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Catholic parish in Upper Austria - Parish Finder ( Memento of the original from October 17, 2011 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 4242 queried on November 6, 2011 
2. ↑ Naarn 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, S 205ff PDF queried on November 6, 2011.
4. ↑ Bishop Reginbert von Passau allows all of Adalram's own people between Naarn and Dobra to receive baptism and burial in the church in Pergkirchen that he consecrated . In:  Upper Austrian document book . Volume 2, No. CXXXIII, March 25, 1142, p. 198.
5. ↑ ^{a b c d} Benno Ulm : The Mühlviertel. His works of art, historical forms of life and settlement. In: Austrian art monograph. Volume V, Salzburg 1971, 2nd revised edition 1976, p. 140.
6. ↑ Mariengrotte as a special jewel of the renovated parish church Naarn, in: Tips from December 5, 2012 ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 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. 
7. ^ Edmund Traxler: Church buildings. In: Naarn im Machlande - Contributions to the history of the Naarn parish. Parish office Naarn im Machlande (editor), Linz 2009, p. 62ff.

Coordinates: 48 ° 13 ′ 32.4 "  N , 14 ° 36 ′ 30.2"  E