Parish Church Pitten
The Roman Catholic parish church of Pitten stands on a step halfway up the castle hill of Pitten in the market town of Pitten in Lower Austria . The parish church of St. Georg , incorporated into the Reichersberg Monastery, has been part of the Lanzenkirchen dean's office in the vicariate Unter dem Wienerwald in the Archdiocese of Vienna since September 1st, 2016 . Before that she was part of the dean's office in Neunkirchen . The mountain church with the rock chapel and the medieval defensive wall with battlements as a structural connection to Pitten Castle are under monument protection .
history
It was founded with Gottfried Graf von Wels-Lambach († 1050) with the county of Pitten . The original patronage was the Hll. Peter and Paul . A parish was mentioned in a document in 1144. In 1373 the church received the patronage of St. George. In 1456 the church was incorporated into the Reichersberg monastery. The east-facing church - probably from the 2nd quarter of the 13th century - was attached to a rock face with a short nave on the east side. The choir of the church was formed by a rock cave. The church was called dilapidated in 1703 and the altar was desecrated in 1723. The year 1732 was mentioned in a document for the laying of the foundation stone of a new baroque church. The new nave was built in front of the old nave and in the eastern area the new north wall was placed on the former south wall of the previous building. The old nave was probably demolished around 1732/1734. The late Gothic south tower was not demolished and integrated into the new church.
architecture
- Church exterior
The baroque church has a three-bay nave with six side chapels and a retracted choir with a straight end under a shared gable roof. The three-axis high gable facade with volutes has a central projectile and rounded corners and shows layered pilasters and a richly profiled cranked entablature and has three holy niches and carries the figure of Francis de Sales (?) In the gable . The rectangular portal with a curved, bent plaster gable with a cartouche is part of a dominant arched portal-window group and shows the coats of arms of the provosts and builders Herkulan Kalchgruber (1707–1734) and Mathias Führer (1735–1752) from the Reichersberg monastery. The side fronts of the church are kept simple and have tall oval windows. The lower area of the two-storey tower in the northeast corner of the choir is from the Middle Ages. On the tower ground floor, a new entrance was made in the south wall, thus enabling access to the cave choir of the previous church, which was documented as an ossuary in 1725, via the passage in the north wall of the tower . The bell storey with the bell has been renewed. In the west of the choir, a two-storey sacristy was added in 1754 under a pent roof with oval windows. In the north wall of the church, a walled, pointed arch portal can be seen as the former south portal of the previous church from the 2nd quarter of the 13th century.
- Church interior
The three-bay nave with an organ gallery under lance-cap barrels between belt arches above wall pillars with strong entablature zone has six side chapels with transverse barrels with lance-shaped caps and shows delicate baroque bandwork from 1730/1740. The choir has a stab cap barrel. The ground floor of the tower has a late Gothic diamond star vault with cross-cut ribs and heraldic shields from 1500/1510 as well as wall painting remains with medallions with symbols of the evangelists and the church fathers.
Furnishing
The high altar with a column-framed wall structure was documented in 1770 by a sculptor from Obernberg / Inn. The apex of the frame of the altarpiece shows the coat of arms of Stift Reichersberg and Provost Ambrosius Kreuzmayr (1770–1810). The high altar shows the altar sheet St. George with dragon and the side statues of the bishops Augustine and Ambrosius and in the excerpt the Trinity. The free-standing baroque altar table bears a tabernacle with volutes and figures of angels.
The organ was built by Orgelbau Gebrüder Mauracher (1955).
Rock chapel
The former choir of the previous church as a remarkable rock chapel in the northeast of today's parish church was mentioned in 1725 as an ossuary . The chapel is formed on the one hand by a natural cave in a rock wall and has a triumphal arched stone wall from the 14th century. Outside the walls of the former nave are still preserved. In the interior of the chapel, remains of a figural wall painting from around 1300 can still be seen and shows the birth of Christ, three heads and the bust of a prophet with a banner as remnants of an originally extensive cycle.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria south of the Danube 2003 . Pitten, parish church St. Georg, pp. 1685-1687.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 42 ′ 59 " N , 16 ° 11 ′ 19.3" E