Parish Church Petzenkirchen
The parish church Petzenkirchen stands elevated in the center of the village on the church square in the market town of Petzenkirchen in the Melk district in Lower Austria . The Roman Catholic parish church consecrated to St. Stephen belongs to the deanery of Ybbs in the diocese of St. Pölten . The church is a listed building ( list entry ).
history
The parish was founded by the Diocese of Passau in the early 11th century. The church was officially assigned to the Passau Cathedral Chapter by Bishop Konrad von Passau in 1159.
The late Gothic two-aisled hall longhouse from around 1500 with a west tower that is probably older in its core is joined by a slightly axially shifted asymmetrical long choir from 1470, which is placed on the right-hand nave nave. In 1991 there was a restoration.
architecture
The exterior of the church shows an undivided nave with two-lane tracery windows in the southwest with stuck-through branches, in the north three lanes in the middle, in the southwest a sundial in scratched plaster by Johann Scheiblauer from the 1950s. In the south of the nave there is a wide extension under a half-hipped roof with pointed and round arched windows with tracery from around 1900. The groin-arched portal porch from the beginning of the 16th century has a door from 1900, the north portal has a shoulder portal in a profiled pointed arch from the end of the 15th century. The choir with massive buttresses has the same eaves height as the nave, it has two-lane narrow tracery windows, three-lane profiled in the east with a central quatrefoil and radially arranged three-pass windows. The western front is presented asymmetrically on the right edge of a massive, undivided tower and set into the masonry of the western front, it has small clock gables and a pointed helmet from the 19th century.
Next to the church is a statue of St. Stephanus by Josef Kaiser 1992.
The interior of the church shows a wide, bright, two-aisled, three-bay nave hall under a net and star-ribbed vault, partly with perforations on two cantilever pillars and wall pillars with round templates. The late Gothic vestibule arched west gallery is in the line of a free pillar with two profiled pointed arches open to the nave, in the south there is a balcony-like gallery over consoles up to the second yoke, with tracery with swivel and branches. The staircase to the gallery has a spiral rod and handrail. The ogival triumphal arch has moved in. The wide two-bay choir has a five-eighth end and a slightly elevated cross-ribbed vault made up of services and a surrounding coffin cornice.
Above the triumphal arch there is a baroque high relief in stucco crucifixion with Mary and Mary Magdalene. The stained glass in the choir show the stoning of St. Stephanus, above the Trinity, Peter and Paul, Barbara and Klara, created by Ostermann and Hartwein in 1906.
Furnishing
The people's altar from 1969 has an integrated tabernacle. The side altar from 1907 is the former high altar.
Leopold Breinbauer built the organ in a three-part neo-Gothic case in 1889.
Funerary monuments
- On the outside between the tower and the western pillars there are relief gables of a Roman grave with an eagle and tympanum and a figuratively decorated frieze from the 2nd century.
- Outside on the left is a brick part of a tombstone with a relief of the Crucifixion and the donor family from the end of the 16th century.
- Outside on the right an inscription plaque Hans Adam Khirchweger 1672.
- Inside Christoph Concin with heraldic relief 1558.
- Inside is a large Adam Hager tombstone with a relief of the coat of arms and inscription in Gothic minuscule 1432.
literature
- Petzenkirchen, parish church hl. Stephan, with a floor plan. In: The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria south of the Danube 2003 . Pp. 1675-1676.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 45.9 ″ N , 15 ° 9 ′ 21.4 ″ E