Platt parish church
The parish church of Platt is the Roman Catholic parish church of the place Platt, a cadastral parish of Zellerndorf in Lower Austria . It is the holy Ulrich ordained and is on the southeastern outskirts of the village on a hill.
The mighty early historical hall church has a slender western facade tower and is under monument protection according to the ordinance of the Federal Monuments Office ( list entry ). The parish belongs to the deanery Retz-Pulkautal in the vicariate Unter dem Manhartsberg of the Archdiocese of Vienna . Until September 1, 2016, she was part of the Retz dean's office .
Parish and building history
Platt was first mentioned in 1227 as a branch of Zellerndorf , which was incorporated into the Schottenstift . Before that she belonged to the parish Pulkau . It is not known whether there was already a church or a chapel in Platt at that time. A sacred building , which was located on today's Ortsanger and which presumably existed since the Babenberger time, was first mentioned in 1458 in the Messstiftung of Katharina Wacker as "Ulrichskapelle". Of this chapel, which was extended by two side wings in 1790 and finally demolished in 1858, only the tower from the late 18th century remains, to which a common room was added between 1977 and 1983.
Since 1750, the community tried to have its own parish. The Schottenstift refused the parish's repeated requests until after a decree by Empress Maria Theresa from 1777, according to which the conditions for founding a parish in Platt were met, the parish was founded on September 12, 1783 and on January 11, 1784 the first pastor was installed.
Because even after the expansion of the chapel in 1790 there was no longer enough space for the parish, which had grown in the meantime, Abbot Sigismund decided in autumn 1845 to build a new church on a hill on the eastern edge of the village.
In April 1846 construction work began according to plans by the architect Alois Lissek and under the direction of the master builder Jakob Reischl. Mid-1847 was the topping-out ceremony , and in June 1848, the carpentry Wallender from Pulkau the roof on. In July 1848, in the presence of the abbot, the foundation stone for the high altar was laid and the tower cross was put on. The tower cap was completed in autumn and in the winter months of the construction years the farmers led the earth around the building to compensate for the slope. The plastering work began early in the spring of 1849, first inside, then outside, and on October 21, 1849 Abbot Sigismund was able to carry out the consecration .
The parish was incorporated into the Schottenstift until 1970 and was looked after by fathers . Only from 1946 to 1955 did a secular priest in the service of the Schottenstift head the parish. In 1970 the lack of religious forced the monastery to cede the parish to the Archdiocese of Vienna. It is looked after by the pastor from Zellerndorf as part of the Zellerndorf Parish Association (Deinzendorf - Platt - Schrattenthal - Watzelsdorf - Zellerndorf).
The great renovation of 1890/91
In 1879, increasing cracks formed in the ceiling and masonry of the church. After the reinforcement of the pillar foundations carried out in 1880 and the attachment of clasps that were supposed to hold the pillars together had not resulted in any lasting improvement in the building fabric, the abbot ordered the immediate restoration of the church at the expense of the monastery, including the heavy brick vault replaced a lighter construction and the roof structure should be better held together by closing and screwing.
Work began on July 14, 1890 under the guidance of the court architect Josef Schmalzhofer and the vault was removed by the end of September. Then in was Vienna -made replica of the old wooden ceiling mounted and amplifies the load-bearing roof structure and better tied to relocate to the downward pressure.
A complete renovation and restoration of the interior took place between spring and autumn 1891. The floor was given new clinker paving and the entrance new granite steps. The pulpit, which was originally located on the sacristy pillar, was moved to the first left side pillar and received a new staircase.
The exterior work, in the course of which the cornice was rebuilt and the projecting stone slabs supported with iron props, came to an end in autumn and the renovated church was rededicated on October 18, 1891.
Further renovations and restorations
In 1946 the defective organ was repaired, in 1947 the church roof was sealed and in 1948 a new tower clock was installed. In 1955 the exterior was renovated and in 1958 the electrification was carried out and in 1959 another interior renovation took place.
The exterior renovation from 1955 had to be renewed between 1984 and 1986, whereby the roof was also re-covered, the tower was given a new sheet copper cap and the tower clock was equipped with four new dials made of polyester resin .
Building description
Outside
The high, cubic nave rises above a high base zone, set off by a profiled cornice, with a recessed, rounded choir . The building is structured on the north and south side by four pilasters each. These are three meters ready, protrude only a little from the masonry and divide the facade into three equally large segments, to which the tower with the entrance area adjoins in the west and the choir and apse to the east . Large, bottle-framed round windows dominate the segments between the pilasters, which are accentuated by coloring. The conclusion is a profiled all-round eaves cornice that rests on consoles.
The choir and apse are slightly lower than the nave and the eaves do not rest on consoles. The choir has round windows framed by a bezel on both sides, which are significantly smaller than those of the nave. The apse is not separated from the choir, but only separated by a pilaster. It has no windows, so it clearly protrudes from the rest of the building and allows the sanctuary to be clearly recognized as a central element from the outside.
On the north gable wall is a small pilaster-framed porch with the building inscription " 1849 " and on the north side of the choir is a rectangular sacristy annex .
The tower base adjoining the nave to the west with the entrance area is the same height as the three segments of the nave and clearly jumps back against the rest of the front. The circumferentially structured elements correspond to those of the nave. The windows are the same size as those of the choir and are supplemented by two smaller ones above and below. On the west facade is a flat risalit with a classical gable, from which the entrance area with the portal protrudes. The facade structure by vertical pilasters, pilaster strips and round windows continues in this area, with the pilaster strips ending directly next to the portal in a round arch above the window. The horizontal of the tower base, which tapers three times towards the top, is emphasized by multiple cornices.
The tower with a square cross-section consists of a cuboid, a slightly smaller cube placed on top, and another cuboid at the top, tapering again. The corners of the individual elements are bevelled and have two separate pilaster strips on each side. The two cuboids have arched windows that extend almost the entire height, in the cube between them is the tower clock with its four dials. The tower, with a total height of 48.5 meters, is closed by a copper dome, which is crowned by a four-meter-high openwork cross.
Inside
Mighty pillars with heavily cranked beams , which rise above a high base zone and protrude far, seem to support the groin vaults of the three-bay nave, which are arranged between wide belt arches . In fact, the wooden vault construction has been suspended from the reinforced roof structure since the church was renovated in 1890/91. In the fields between the pillars are the large round windows that illuminate the church interior. The width and height of the room is particularly emphasized by the unadorned vaults and arches and the wide corridor between the rows of banks.
A retracted semicircular triumphal arch forms the transition to the groin-vaulted choir bay and the eastern round apse. Two semicircular niches on both sides of the high altar represent the only structural division of the apse, which is closed off by a semi-dome. On the north side of the choir, a door leads into a small rectangular sacristy room.
A door on the north side in the middle yoke of the nave next to the pulpit leads to a small room that originally served as the vestibule of a side entrance. The side entrance was walled up during the renovation in 1984/86 and the room now serves as the location for the Holy Sepulcher .
The half-bay gallery, resting on two pillars, connects to the west side of the nave . It is closed off by a barrel vault and receives its light through a large round window. The parapet has six fields with a breastwork in between and the organ manual . The breastwork has a square viewing hole that allows the organist a direct view of the high altar.
In the tower base adjoining to the west, a spacious anteroom forms the entrance area. A door on the north side of this vestibule leads into a former baptistery, on the south side a door opens to the stairwell, which leads to the gallery and the tower.
Furnishing
Altars
High altar
The high altar from the construction period of the church has a retable structure framed by double pilasters with a segmented arched gable and a crowning cross, which was added later in 1902. A symbol " Eye of God " is shown in the arch of the gable . The altarpiece is 320 by 230 cm in size, comes from Johann Neugebauer , a painter who worked for the Schottenstift, and shows the vision of St. Ulrich in the battle on the Lechfeld , where the church patron prays for the victory of the imperial army over the Magyars and receives a cross from an angel. It has a gilded frame that Abbot Sigismund had made in 1856.
The cafeteria - tabernacle group is flanked by two adoring angels. On both sides of the altar table are two high baroque reliquary obelisks from around 1730, which Abbot Sigismund acquired in 1855 from the abandoned church in Jägerzeile in Vienna.
In 1965, the communion bench between the nave and the choir , which was acquired in 1939, was removed and the people's altar was set up in the choir square .
Side altars
- Abbot Sigismund had the altars on both sides of the front nave yoke built in 1853. A widow from Vienna donated two statues for these side altars in 1904: the Sacred Heart statue on the left side altar is preserved, the Sacred Heart statue on the right side altar is no longer there. In its place there is now the " Mother of God with the blue cloak ", a figure of Maria Immaculata from around 1900, which stood on the tabernacle of the high altar until the church was renovated in 1959.
Two oil paintings by Paul Troger , which were created around 1740, hang above the side altars . They are 260 by 200 cm and represent the death of St. Josef (left) and Maria vom Siege (right). Both paintings were in churches in Vienna until 1857 before they came to Platt and after the church renovation in 1891 at their current location. In 1963 both works were restored and shown at exhibitions in Altenburg Abbey and Rohrau Castle .
- On the right long wall of the central nave yoke is the late historical Marien or Lourdes altar, which was erected on October 15, 1884. It serves as the location for a wooden statue “ Our Lady of Lourdes ”, which was given to the parish on December 25, 1883 by a woman from Vienna “out of gratitude for the wonderful answer to her requests” and which was given on January 31, 1884 was consecrated. The financing for the purchase of the altar came from a local collection and donations from abroad.
Other equipment
The furnishings include two Baroque figures of Saints John Nepomuk and Florian from the early 19th century, which stand on both sides of the triumphal arch.
Above the sacristy door is a canvas painting of the Annunciation from the second half of the 18th century, 320 by 180 cm, and above the door to the Holy Sepulcher in the middle yoke of the nave hangs the resurrection painting marked 1851 by a painter from Platt.
The 14 Stations of the Cross from the middle of the 19th century are each 140 by 70 cm in size and come from the Nazarene School .
The pulpit on the second pillar on the north side is made of marbled wood with early historical decor and was built in the mid-19th century. In the sound cover is a relief-like image of the Holy Spirit as a dove in a halo and in the large field on the front of the pulpit there is a Benedictine cross . Before the church renovation in 1890/91, the pulpit was on the left front wall of the nave with access from the sacristy, where the door is still there.
organ
The pipe work and mechanics of the organ come largely from the baroque organ, which was built in 1794 by Stephan Helmich and Johann Gottfried Malleck for the Ulrichskirche in Vienna, which was incorporated into the Schottenstift . In its place, Josef Loyp built a new organ between 1834 and 1842, leaving the old positive from 1794.
In 1849 Loyp received the order from Abbot Sigismund to equip the church in Platt with an organ that was appropriate in size, but as cheap as possible. For the main work he used the discarded parts of the old St. Ulrich's organ from Vienna and added the positive of the small organ from the old church in Platt, which Josef Silberbauer created in 1796 .
The classical organ case is an imitation of the organ built by Loyp for the Ulrichskirche in Vienna. The two-part main work and the three-part positive are each connected by large triangular gables. The disposition is as follows:
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Bells
A small bell from the old "Ulrichskapelle" was mentioned in a document, which was melted down in 1685 for the purpose of casting a larger bell. In the 1830s there were already two bells that were cast back onto two larger ones. In 1748 a third, larger bell was purchased.
Two bells were lost in a fire in 1811 and a new bell was mentioned in 1812. Another bell was probably cast from the melting material of the two bells that had crashed during the fire, because three bells were soon mentioned again that remained in the "Old Tower" until 1852. That year the rotten belfry broke and the big bell fell.
The new parish church received a belfry , the middle bell was transferred to the tower of the new church and the small bell remained in the old tower as a train bell. The remains of the fallen bell were traded in for three new ones commissioned by the abbot for the parish church in 1853. This gave the church a peal consisting of four bells.
In 1917 the three bells from 1853 and the train bell from the old tower had to be delivered and melted down for armament purposes. The middle bell that remained was traded in after the war in 1923 for three new steel bells, which were consecrated on September 8, 1923. Since no steel bells were confiscated for armament purposes, the peal of Platt outlived the “ metal donation of the German people ” during World War II . The bells are coordinated in A flat major :
| No. | Surname | Nominal | Weight (kg) |
Casting year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The big, Sacred Heart Bell | as 1 | 816 | 1923 |
| 2 | The twelve, heart-Mariae-bell | c 2 | 469 | 1923 |
| 3 | The 911, St. Josef bell | it 2 | 303 | 1923 |
literature
- Dehio Lower Austria - north of the Danube . 1990, ISBN 3-7031-0652-2 .
- Matthias and Herbert Fidesser: The Platter Church . Ed .: Parish of Platt. Self-published by the parish, Platt 1990.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g Matthias Fidesser, community Zellerndorf (ed.): Platt - A Weinviertel village in history and present (1998). ( Memento of the original from October 21, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on February 15, 2015
- ↑ Pfarrverband Zellerndorf on the website of the Archdiocese of Vienna, accessed on February 15, 2015
- ↑ a b Dehio p. 885
Coordinates: 48 ° 40 ′ 17.5 ″ N , 15 ° 57 ′ 57.1 ″ E