Parish church Neuhofen an der Ybbs
The parish church of Neuhofen an der Ybbs is located west of the market square on the step of the southern outskirts in the market town of Neuhofen an der Ybbs in the district of Amstetten in Lower Austria . The Roman Catholic parish and pilgrimage church , consecrated on the feast of the Assumption of Mary , belongs to the Amstetten deanery of the diocese of St. Pölten . The church is a listed building ( list entry ).
history
A parish was accepted from 1000. From 1240 to 1250 a parish of the Amstetten parish .
In 1995 the remains of a Romanesque church building were excavated, a single-nave nave with a recessed square choir with a semicircular apse, the west tower has been preserved. The Gothic choir was built around 1400, and the three-aisled nave hall in the third quarter of the 15th century. 1868 was a renovation, from 1882 to 1895 by Hermann von Riewel . In 1995 the interior of the church was restored.
architecture
The late Gothic hall church with a retracted Gothic choir has a roof turret above the choir and a western tower that is Romanesque in the core and is surrounded in the south and east by a cemetery wall.
The exterior of the church shows wide, strongly sloping buttresses on the walls of the nave, on the south side between the two western buttresses and on both sides between the third and fourth buttresses there are narrow, half-high chapel extensions and then projecting low vestibules, the nave has wide two-lane and richly designed late Gothic tracery windows, on the east North window with a lily leaf heart. The choir has two slightly stepped buttresses and stretched two-lane tracery windows, half walled up in the east. The mighty, unstructured west tower presented with a younger supporting pillar in front of it has a baroque bell storey with four large sound windows with a strongly profiled clock gable and has a baroque hood with a lantern attachment, on the east wall of the tower in the roof structure remains of Gothic joint painting are preserved above the original roof approach. To the side of the tower are late Gothic additions, on the left a drawn-in staircase, and on the right a two-story chapel extension with a rich tracery window facing south. In the southern corner of the choir there is a protruding two-storey late Gothic sacristy extension that narrows after Easter. On the north wall of the choir is the wall painting Christophorus 1617 over an older layer of paint with pseudo-architectural arches.
Furnishing
The furniture was mainly neo-Gothic from 1867 by the carpenter Engelbert Westreicher. The high altar from 1868 is an elaborate shrine retable with richly sculptural furnishings with statues, in the middle shrine a baroque statue of Mary with child as the so-called Madonna in Erlschacher as a miraculous image of the baroque high altar surrounded by neo-Gothic angel statues, the side figures Florian and Leopold, above Elisabeth and Barbara, in the Leprosy God the Father flanked by the archangels Gabriel and Michael, the tabernacle shows the side niche statuettes Paul, Moses, David and Peter.
Konrad Neusser built the organ in 1907 in a neo-Gothic case by Matthäus Mauracher in 1874.
literature
- Neuhofen an der Ybbs, parish and pilgrimage church Mariae Himmelfahrt, with floor plan, grave monuments, war memorial, parsonage. In: The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria south of the Danube 2003 . Pp. 1522-1525.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 3 ′ 25.4 ″ N , 14 ° 51 ′ 18 ″ E