Parish Church of Plainfeld
The parish church of St. Leonhard is a Roman Catholic church in the municipality of Plainfeld in the Salzburg-Umgebung district in the state of Salzburg and belongs to the Thalgau dean's office of the Archdiocese of Salzburg . The church is surrounded by a walled cemetery and is a listed building .
history
According to one story, the Plainfeld landlord Martin Seywaldstätter got into a life-threatening snowstorm on the way to Christmas mass. He then promised, if he survived, to build a church in Plainfeld, which is what happened. Seywaldstätters epitaph is on the west wall, mounted on the left staircase to the organ loft and bears the inscription: Rest in peace in God's peace, you beneficent builder of Vicariats, house of worship in Pleinfeld: Martin Seÿwaldstätter, Wirth allda, was born the 10 th November 1748, has built in 1799, died the 13 th Juny 1830th
The church, built in 1798/1799 according to plans by the architect M. Schauer, became a vicariate church in 1800 . The facade tower was built between 1868 and 1875. In 1891 the vicariate church was elevated to a parish church . Restorations took place in 1936, 1958 to 1964 and 1979 to 1981.
architecture
The baroque hall church with a gable tower has a simple nave and a retracted, yoke-like choir with a triangular end. The facade is uniformly structured with an eaves fillet , corner brackets and arched windows. The west facade has a round arch portal with a sculptured lintel with a tympanum field . The sculptor Josef Zenzmaier (1964) created the bronze gates in relief . The façade tower changes from a square parapet base into an octagon, has a pyramid helmet and arched sound windows. The two-storey sacristy is attached to the choir. A carved crucifix from the second half of the 19th century hangs on the facade.
The vestibule is closed by a barrel vault . The broadly proportioned hall and the choir have a heavily pressed needle cap barrel on straps and pilasters. The flat arched triumphal arch is drawn in at the side. The organ gallery has a flat ceiling on wooden pillars.
Furnishing
The high altar from 1867 with a neo-baroque columned aedicula with a split gable shows the altar sheet Trinity with the Hll. Maria and Leonhard. He carries the side figures of St. Rupert and Virgil around 1740 from the former altar in Schloss Blumenstein near Salzburg . The side altars as a picture frame retable around 1720/1730 with curved entablature roofing were transferred here from the former Church of Our Lady on the Bergl in Salzburg. The side altar paintings, on the left the picture of the lessons of the Virgin Mary and on the right St. George painted by Josef Gold (1878).
There is a carved figure of Christ at rest from the second quarter of the 17th century and the console statues of Mary Enthroned with Child and St. Joseph around 1720/1730 and a carved crucifix from the second half of the 19th century. The Stations of the Cross are from the second half of the 19th century. The font is from 1965.
organ
Johann Nepomuk Carl Mauracher, a member of the Mauracher family of organs, received the order for a new organ on June 24th, 1868, the instrument was inaugurated on November 8th, 1868 and cost 700 florins. In 1997 Fritz Mertel changed the organ Mauracher's main work case built into the parapet as a positive and behind it a matching historicizing main work case set up. The organ has since had two manuals and a pedal.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Salzburg 1986 . Plainfeld, parish church St. Leonhard, p. 303.
- Roman Schmeißner: The history of organ art using the example of the Thalgau dean's office . Diploma thesis of the Federal Pedagogical Academy in Salzburg 1982.
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Notes and individual references
- ^ Roman Schmeißner: The history of organ art using the example of the Thalgau dean's office . Diploma thesis at the Salzburg University of Education 1982, p. 56.
Coordinates: 47 ° 49 '56.1 " N , 13 ° 10' 59.8" E