Parish church Obermeisling
The parish church of St. Stephan is a Roman Catholic church in the parish and street village of Obermeisling in the municipality of Gföhl in Lower Austria .
Parish church
The St. Stephan , a former fortified church, stands elevated above a loop of the Krems river and is surrounded by a cemetery. The first parish was deserted in the middle of the 11th century. In 1111 another church was consecrated. In 1212 it was incorporated into Lilienfeld Abbey.
Building history
A Romanesque hall church with an axially forward west tower, a later, slightly shifted to the axis, higher east choir was extended to the north by the addition of a Gothic aisle and a Marienkapelle with five-eighth closure in the same axis. The originally Romanesque north wall of the hall was dissolved into three arches. The sacristy was added to the choir in the south.
Outside
The church is an asymmetrical two-aisled building under a gable roof, emerging from a Romanesque hall with a west tower and a higher Gothic choir in the east. To the north it was extended by a Gothic nave half as wide with a later Baroque-style Chapel of the Virgin in the same axis. The Gothic parts: the northern nave and the five-eighth end are reinforced by buttresses (two coats of arms). Through the late Gothic shoulder arch portal in a pointed arched garment with a tympanum with a shallowly incised three-pass and walled-in head sculpture of the massive tower from the 14th century set in the western gable front with a high pyramidal dome, one enters the church through a small vestibule from the west. A richly braced shoulder arch portal from 1503 leads into the aisle from the north. The slightly elevated choir, as well as the Marienkapelle with a five-eighth closure, is slightly shifted to the main axis of the ship. It has a dormer window with a late medieval rectangular window. In the Marienkapelle north of the choir there are remains of round templates and narrow pointed arched windows with tracery noses, south of the choir is a single-storey sacristy annex. A grave slab, probably from the 14th century, shows, heavily weathered, a disk cross on a schematic hill.
Inside
The two-aisled, three-bay nave has, in the broader nave, a Romanesque core from the 14th century, a pressed groin vault with plastered ribs and disc capstones. The vault was renewed in the 16th century. In the west yoke of the main nave is a gallery from 1980. The vestibule in the tower is vaulted with ribs. The north aisle is opened to the main nave by pointed arch arcades on eight-sided pillars and has a ribbed vaulting in part in a steeply rising vault. The vault on a branch console in the eastern arcade is dated 1518. A pointed triumphal arch with a polygonal template separates the main nave from the choir, which is drawn in on one side, with a square yoke and a ribbed vault on beveled inlets from the 14th century. The north, one-bay St. Mary's Chapel with ribbed vaults on bundles that pierce the surrounding sill is connected to the north aisle by a strongly drawn-in triumphal arch. The interior of the church was redesigned in Baroque style at the beginning of the 18th century, while the walls and vaults as well as the ribs, services and keystones were provided with delicate stucco, with acanthus leaves and ivy tendrils in a symmetrical arrangement. A stained glass window from 1927 shows Saint John the Baptist.
Specialty
The largest bat colony in Lower Austria is located in the roof beams of the church . Around 3,000 large mouse- eared females give birth to a young there after a gestation period of 60 days. This colony eats more than 5,000 kilograms of insects every year .
Rectory
Located east of the church, integrated into the church courtyard wall, is the rectory, a single-storey complex around a rectangular courtyard with a hipped roof, probably with an older core. The entrance side to the church is flanked by two massive semicircular, tower-like porches. Inside there are stitch cap vaults and flat ceilings with plaster cut mirrors.
literature
- Dehio Lower Austria north of the Danube 1990 , Ober-Meisling, parish church hl. Stephan, pp. 821f.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Researchers track down jungle bats in the Kremstal European protected area , derStandard.at, February 20, 2015.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 28 '12.7 " N , 15 ° 27' 48.3" E