Parish Church of Pergkirchen

The parish church of Pergkirchen is located in the village of Pergkirchen in the municipality of Perg in Upper Austria . It goes back to a castle church complex (castle with its own church) of the Lords of Perg and Machland . The church stands on the town square and is surrounded on three sides by the parish cemetery. Pergkirchen used to be its own independent local church.

Name Pergkirchen

The syllable Perg in the name Pergkirchen is derived from the term Bero , which in this context can be a rare Old High German first name with the meaning of the brown, the bear or an old Germanic name for the clan elder. Spelling of the name Pergkirchen in documents was for example Pen (ge) nkirchen (1114), Pergenkirchen (1142), Perchirchen (1227), Perinkyrchen (1239), Perchirchen (1320), Perkirchen (1325), Pernkirchen (1351), Perichirchen (1358 ), Perchirchen (1358 and 1364), Pergkirchen (1376), perkhircher pharr (1508 and 1533), Bekhirchen (1569).

It is likely that the names of the Lords of Perg and Machland and the place Perg can be derived in the same way.

geography

The church building is the parish church of the parish Pergkirchen, 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 4282 and has 1,128 Catholics who, with the exception of the village of Karlingberg, which belongs to the parish of Perg, are mainly distributed over the area of the cadastral parish and former local parish of Pergkirchen .

The parish is responsible for the administration of the Pergkirchen local and parish cemetery. The parish includes the villages of Auhof, Dörfl, Lehenbrunn, Mitterberg, Pergkirchen, Thurnhof and Tobra. The parish is part of the pastoral care area of Perg , to which the parishes of Allerheiligen, Münzbach, Pergkirchen, Perg and Windhaag belong. Neighboring parishes are Arbing , Mitterkirchen , Münzbach , Naarn , Perg and Windhaag in the Perg deanery .

History of the parish of Pergkirchen

Catholic foundation

On March 25, 1142, at the request of Adelram I von Perg (1090–1148) , the Passau bishop Reginbert endowed the church of Pergkirchen with the right to be buried and baptized, which meant the final separation from the Naarn parish . The parish of Pergkirchen at that time comprised the area between the Naarn river and Tobrabach . The boundaries of the parish and the later cadastral parish of Pergkirchen have hardly changed since that time.

With the death of Friedrich II. Von Perg (1150–15.7.1191 in Palestine) the bailiwick and patronage rights went to the Melk Abbey and remained with it until 1530. In that year the Melk Abbey sold the parish Pergkirchen to the Rosenburgen in Lower Austria, from which it was sold to the Schallenberger von Luftenberg and from them to the Prager zu Windhaag.

In the parish bar from 1553 , laid out by Andreas von Prag (1514–1569), Freiherr zu Windhaag, the parish property of Pergkirchen was precisely recorded. It can be assumed that Andreas already owned the bailiwick and fiefdom of the Pergkirchen parish (in addition to the Altenburg parish , acquired by Andreas in 1492, and the Münzbach parish , acquired by Andreas in 1530). Under the 3 Windhaagian parishes one understood the parishes Pergkirchen, Altenburg and Windhaag.

The parish property of Pergkirchen at that time comprised the rectory, the grounds for the rectory including gardens and fruit trees, meadows, fields, pastures and woods, parish holden (6 goods), services, tithes and income from vineyards, estates and meadows. The real estate of the parish and church of Pergkirchen has remained the same from 1627 and is specified as follows, for example, in the real schematic of the parishes of the diocese of Linz from 1913:

The church grounds extended to 7 ha 62 to 89 m² of forest and 4 ha 45 to 55 m² of fields and meadows. The Pfarrhofgrund (the parish plots) comprised 4 ha 47 to 88 m² forest, 18 ha 10 to 8 m² arable land, 10 ha 27 to 7 m² meadows and 1 ha 41 to 43 m² gardens.

Protestant time

Before 1558 and after 1626 the pastors of Pergkirchen were Catholic. From 1558 to 1624 the pastors of Pergkirchen were Protestant. In the time of Protestant pastors, the Pergkirchen Catholics belonged to the Catholic parish of Naarn from 1606 to 1624 .

The Pergkirchner Protestants were made Catholic again from then on . The bailiff's rule over the three Windhaagian parishes was withdrawn from the Protestant rulers and incorporated into the Baumgartenberg monastery . Numerous documents came to Baumgartenberg, where they were destroyed on the occasion of the abolition of the monastery in 1784.

Protestant pastors

Since the Vogtherr von Pergkirchen, Friedrich von Prag († 1600) Freiherr von Windhaag, was a Protestant, he appointed Protestant pastors in his three parishes, including Pergkirchen. He may have appointed Daniel Schmuckzell as early as 1558 , but in any case in 1574 appointed Abraham Hardel (also Haggl, deposed abbot of the Gleink Benedictine Abbey ) as Protestant pastor. From 1599, Magister Samuel Übelmann , professor at the Protestant landscape school, worked in Pergkirchen and stayed until 1618. Successor was Magister Johannes Meier , who died in 1619, and then Magister Johannes Urlsperger,

Since there weren't very many Protestant parishes in the Mühlviertel at that time, many Protestants from the Mühlviertel came from near and far to the three Windhaagian parishes because the Protestant pastors could perform their office there. Protestant communicants came, Protestant baptized people were brought in, and even prostant deaths were brought to these parishes. In 1624 all Protestant preachers and schoolmasters had to abdicate and leave the country. Magister Johannes Urlsperger also had to leave Pergkirchen.

Catholic modern times

With a letter of purchase dated August 19, 1636, Joachim Enzmilner (1600–1678) acquired the rule of Windhaag, including the bailiwicks and teachings of the three Windhaagian parishes of Münzbach, Altenburg and Pergkirchen.

For this reason, he had a long dispute with the Baumgartenberg monastery , which could only be resolved in 1652, when the bailiwick of the Windhaag rule and the fief were awarded to the Baumgartenberg monastery. After Joachim Enzmilner's death, his daughter Eva Maria Enzmilner (1629–1700) returned parts of the bailiwick to the Baumgartenberg monastery via the Pergkirchen parish in 1682.

From 1624 to 1804 there were again Catholic priests and Cistercian fathers of the Baumgartenberg monastery in Pergkirchen. Father Robert Startzer , pastor of Pergkirchen from 1779 to 1804, was the last of them. Since then, the parish of Pergkirchen has been a parish with free episcopal lending and belongs to the Diocese of Linz, founded in 1784 .

In 1823 the parish Bergkirchen (= Pergkirchen) belonged to the deanery Pabneukirchen. At times the dean came from the parish and the deanery was therefore sometimes referred to as mountain churches. The village of Pergkirchen had 9 houses and 43 residents at that time. The parish also included the villages of Auhof (13 houses and 71 inhabitants), Tobra , Dörfel , Lehenbrunn and Thurnhof (12 houses and 50 inhabitants). The total number of houses and residents is not specified.

On the basis of a contract with the episcopal ordinariate from 1971, the Franciscans (as a branch of Enns) took over the parish of Pergkirchen from 1972 to 1987. Religious instruction at the grammar school in Perg was also connected with this.

History of church building

Castle Church Complex

The original church was a wooden church (without dating). From the stone castle church, built in the 11th century, the parish church and rectory still contain Romanesque wall parts. In 1088 the church was consecrated to St. Martin . 1142 is considered to be the year in which the parish was created by separating from the Roman Catholic old parish of Naarn .

The church in Pergkirchen was the own church of the lords of Perg and Machland within the castle church complex of the lords of Perg and Machland. Owners and free people equip them accordingly abundantly. In the period from 1088 to 1191, the patronage rights to the church and parish belonged to the Lords of Perg and Machland; Melk Abbey was not mentioned in the documents several times .

The deed of foundation reports on numerous donations, including those from Rudolf I von Perg (1035-1090) and his wife Gysela and the first priest of the new church, Wolfoldus (Wolfhold). Further donations were made later, including those from Walchun II von Perg (1065–1148) and his wife Adelheid, as well as from other members of the family that made the foundation. In addition to the gentlemen's family, numerous freelancers took part in equipping the new church in keeping with their status, including Rudolf, Heinrich, Reginbert, Otpolt, Behewin, Oze and Pilizi, Meginhart, Hazacha, Ratpurch, Otwin and the Meginhart converse .

The estate of the master family consisted, among other things, of farms, land, hooves, forest, vineyards, mills and serfs together with their families and the estates they cultivate. The endowed goods of the free consisted, among other things, mostly of land, tithe and serfs. Summarized and confirmed by Bishop Udalrich von Passau to Melk Abbey, these donations add up to 1 forest, 1 tithe, 6 farms, 2 mills, 10 properties and hooves and 2, apart from the serfs mentioned, in the period between the years 1088 and 1114 Vineyards. Other church foundations were not recorded again until the 16th century.

The consecration of a church in Pergkirchen was first mentioned in a document in 1088. On April 24, 1088, Bishop Altmann consecrated a church to St. Martin and entrusted the patronage to Melk Abbey , which was then converted into a Benedictine monastery . Bishop Altmann consecrated numerous other churches on the occasion of a trip from Passau to Melk.

Wolfhold (around 1080) is mentioned as the first priest of Pergkirchen, the names of other, but not all, priests, pastors, auxiliary priests, chaplains and provisional agents are known.

Parish church

It was not until the 16th century, when the Margaret Chapel was added to the parish church, that there was first reference to an originally single-nave church building (a nave with Romanesque components, such as massive cuboids on the north side, arched windows over the western chapel, buttresses on the northwest corner).

The church was rebuilt several times, the choir , built in 1480, has two bays with a 5/8 end and vaulted mesh ribs and is shifted off the axis in relation to the nave.

In the 14th century an Ulrich Prandtner ( von Prandt) bought the noble manor Thurnhof . His sons were called Hans (I.), Georg and Wolfgang (I.) Prandtner. In 1454 Georg Prandtner dacz owned the Tuern in Pergkircher pharr freys aigen , that is the noble seat of Thurnhof. In the first quarter of the 15th century, these Prandtners had a chapel added to the parish church in Pergkirchen on the nave wall in the south. In 1510 they added a second (western) chapel to this first (eastern) chapel (documented in 1527). In later times, the aisle was built after the nave wall was opened. It still bears the name Margarethenkapelle today , in memory of Margaretha, the wife of Wolfgang (II.) Prandtner († 1523, buried in the church crypt in Pergkirchen). The Prandtner chaplain had the right to read mass in the Margaret Chapel. For this purpose, the Prandtners also donated the Thurnwiese to the church (2 days of work = 0.68 hectares and adjacent to the Thurnhof grounds). The Pergkirchen pastor had to give the Prandtner chaplain the sacrificial wine and have the mass actually read. From now on, the Thurnwiese was called sacrificial meadow .

In the first quarter of the 16th century the vaulting of the nave was built. Overall, it is a Gothic church building. Starting in 1682, the Baumgartenberg monastery initiated the renovation of the parish church of Pergkirchen, and in 1685 a barn and a new church tower were built in the northern choir corner. The tower had had a low, curved helmet as a roof since around 1800. The height of the tower is 19 m, the dome was six meters and the cross was two meters high. It was not until the end of the 20th century that the tower received a new pointed gable roof (wedge roof).

In 1917 during the First World War (1914–1918) three bells with a total weight of 1008 kg had to be delivered . Only the 28 kg death bell with a diameter of 39 cm, which Johann Hollederer cast in 1844, remained. In 1923 and 1936 bells with a total weight of 1561 kg were purchased. During the Second World War (1939–1945) the newly acquired bells had to be delivered again, so that in 1953 a new one, consisting of four bells, had to be purchased at the St. Florian bell foundry .

Until the renovation at the beginning of the 21st century, the church had a baroque high altar from the 17th century. Was removed:

Granite grave slab (relic of the castle church complex).
Renaissance tombstone of Hanns Georg Hack von Pornimb (Bornimb) zu Tannbach und Stain ( Außenstein Castle ), who was buried here in 1597 .
Baroque picture of All Saints by Clemens Beutler (1665). The picture came to the Heimathaus Perg.

Picture gallery

Castle Church Complex. Reconstruction by Leopold Josef Mayböck
Rectory wall. Burgkirchen relic
West wall. Burgkirchen relic
Granite grave slab. Burgkirchen relic
Seal of Vogt Friedrich von Perg. Reconstruction
Church in the north
Church apse with high altar
Margaret Chapel to the east
Margaret Chapel to the west. Lettering 1531
Margaret Chapel
Grave slab 1597 for Hanns Georg Hack (now removed). The whole family with 3 sons and 4 daughters is shown together with their names
Pergkirchen in the south ~ 1930
Church in the south. Margaret Chapel on the left
War memorial
Plague column

literature

Georg Grüll : Pergkirchen, contributions to the history of a village. In: Heimatgaue . Journal for Upper Austrian history, regional and folklore. Edited by Dr. Adalbert Depiny . 11th year, 3rd and 4th issue, Linz 1930, pp. 121–168 ( online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at).
Hansgeorg Löw-Baselli: Romanesque grave slab from Pergkirchen. In: Institute for Folk Culture (Ed.): Oberösterreichische Heimatblätter . Volume 46, Issue 2, Linz 1992, pp. 268–271 ( online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at).
Leopold Pötscher: Heimatbuch der Stadt Perg. Ed. Heimatverein Perg, Stadt Perg. Denkmayr Druck, Linz 2009, ISBN 978-3-902598-90-5 , p. 218 (The history of the parish Pergkirchen).

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c 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 ("inter Nerden et Tabra").

↑ 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 4282 queried on November 6, 2011.@1@ 2

↑ Parish Pergkirchen in the culture atlas Doris - Land Oberösterreich, query topic parishes (add on the map boundaries of parishes and cadastral parishes).

^ Statistics Austria: Ortverzeichnis Oberösterreich 2001. Vienna 2005, District Perg, pp. 205ff, PDF , requested on November 6, 2011.

↑ New archive for the history of the Diocese of Linz, p. 84.

↑ Florian Oberchristl: Bells of the Diocese of Linz. Verlag R. Pirngruber, Linz 1941, p. 411.

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[Jahr1142-1] 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 ("inter Nerden et Tabra").