Parish church Poysdorf
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The Roman Catholic parish church in Poysdorf ( patronage : John the Baptist ) is a uniform, early Baroque building, surrounded by remains of the former churchyard wall and accessible from the south via stairs. It is visible from afar due to its location on the 225 meter high church hill in the north of the village. The dean's office Poysdorf belongs to the Archdiocese of Vienna .
history
A branch in Poysdorf is first reported around 1050. This made it Falkenstein's oldest main branch. In the 13th century the community received its own vicar . In the year of the parish elevation (1506), the right of patronage over Poysdorf, together with that of Falkenstein, passed to the Kremsmünster monastery and in 1581 to the rule of Poysbrunn-Falkenstein. The predecessor of today's church was probably also dedicated to John the Baptist. An inscription above the main portal says that the church, built between 1629 and 1635 by the Poysdorf citizens, was consecrated in 1640:
"Ad praepotentis dei honorem et maiorem gloriam ad bssimae VM et omnium SS venerationem sub nomine S. Joannis Baptistae, cui dicatum hoc templum in oppido Poisdorfe, Pys parochianorum sumptibus anno 1629 a fundamentis incoeptum et filiciter ad finem 1640. consecum."
In 1645 the church served as a Swedish base. In 1677 the complex was fortified by a powerful defensive wall with loopholes and a drawbridge to protect it from the Turks . Inside the wall is a cemetery that was laid out after 1677 and was closed again in 1889. In 1685 the church was renovated after a fire. Most of the fortifications from the 17th century were dismantled between 1814 and 1825. The current tower dates from 1864. In 1935 and 1965/66, the exterior of the complex was restored. Interior restorations are reported in the years 1850, 1935 and 1970.
Exterior
The parish church of Poysdorf is a hall building with side chapels and a basilical cross-section, south tower and slightly recessed choir with a semicircular apse. Since the west facade is just on the edge of a sloping ground, no entrance could be made on this side. The facade is not structured in the lower area. Above it rises a triple stepped, pilaster - and cornice-structured volute gable with a stone figure of the Madonna in the middle gable. The side fronts have empty arched niches as well as buttresses and lunette windows in the upper area . The southwestern yoke is designed with a three-axis Tuscan giant pilaster structure and an aedicula portal as a portal front. The portal is marked in the lintel with the year of completion, 1635. It has Ionic pilasters and a split gable with a stone figure of John the Baptist, an iron plate door and an original wrought iron skylight grille. To the left of the portal is the epitaph by Josef Grosshaubt († 1785) with a relief of the raising of Lazarus .
The tower rises in the southern corner of the choir and is crowned by a baroque helmet with a tied off hood. It has Tuscan corner pilasters in the lower area and a stair tower on the west side. The upper floors have arched windows. In the former churchyard wall, numerous gravestones from the cemetery, which was laid out after 1677 and abandoned in 1889, are walled in, some of them with remarkable baroque mercycale reliefs and inscriptions, some from the first half of the 18th century. A tombstone from the beginning of the 18th century has a combined mercy seat and Pietà representation. On the south side are the graves of the Poysdorf pastors. The last clergyman to be buried here was Dechant Leyendecker in 1973. At the stairway to the church there are baroque stone figures of Saints Florian , Antonius of Padua , Franz Xaver and Johannes Nepomuk from the first half of the 18th century - the so-called bridge saints . Their original location, from where they were removed due to a road widening, was on the stone bridge by the town hall.
Interior
The interior of the church is a high, three-bay, stitch-cap vaulted hall with Tuscan pilasters and surrounding entablature , each with three arched openings to barrel-vaulted insert chapels on both sides. The almost square choir has a slightly drawn-in, semicircular apse . On the western side, a two-storey, three-axis gallery from 1780 rises on Tuscan columns . The basement of the tower and the sacristy have groin vaults . At the apse apex, a curved double staircase laid along the curve of the apse foundation leads to the so-called lower church, a crypt that was probably rebuilt in the second quarter of the 17th century. Below is a massive, axially standing central pillar. To the west of this is a two-bayed room with a groined vault on wall pillars with cornice capitals, extended to the north-west by another yoke walled on the west side. The sacristy was built in the second quarter of the 17th century. It is a square room with a stitch cap vault over a belt arch .
Furnishing
Most of the furnishings in the church were made in the third quarter of the 18th century and some were changed in 1924. The high altar has an Ionic double columned aedicula with a curved volute extract in green-brown stucco marble and has white-framed, partly gilded figures of Saints Peter and Paul , a Godfather relief in the extract, an altarpiece of the baptism of Christ and a free-standing altar table with a baroque tabernacle , flanked by two kneeling cherubim . The four side altars were partially changed in 1924 and equipped with figures. In the two front niches there are two columned pedicures with pediments and white-framed figures of the Mother of God and Saint Roch on consoles. The altar of Mary is flanked by figures of Antonius Eremita and a pilgrim saint . At the Joseph altar, the altarpiece of which shows Saint Roch, there are statues of Saint Elizabeth and her son, John the Baptist. The altarpiece on the left rear altar shows the stigmatization of St. Francis of Assisi . It is accompanied by figures of the holy imperial couple Heinrich and Kunigunde (or Solomon and the Queen of Sheba ). The representations on the entablature show Saints Scholastica and Catherine. The right rear altar is decorated with a picture of Bernhard von Clairvaux . This was painted in the second half of the 18th century, but was not inserted into the picture frame until 1970. The figures in this sanctuary represent the saints Wolfgang and Boniface . The late Baroque pulpit from around 1770 has rich figural decoration. On the basket is a relief of the Good Shepherd with putti , on the sound cover the Risen One with putti and attributes of the three divine virtues .
On the walls of the choir and nave there are white-framed, baroque figures of Saints Florian, Karl Borromeo, Antonius of Padua , Johannes Nepomuk, Petrus Canisius and Leopold . Opposite the pulpit is a crucifix from the beginning of the 16th century with a portrait of Maria Magdalena from the beginning of the 18th century. A Pietà on the tower ground floor was made around 1700. The choir stalls were made in 1657 and have rich acanthus decor . The church has numerous paintings: a picture of Sebastian from 1732; a votive picture from 1679 with a view of Poysdorf as thanks for being saved from the plague; a picture of St. Apollonia of Alexandria with a chronogram 1729; a drain screen with Stations of the Cross representation denoted by 1766. Other features include the designated 1766 pews , the wrought-iron central part of the communion rail from the first half of the 18th century and a chandelier dating from around 1660. The church bell was cast in 1556 by Michel Dobler.
Organs
The mechanical organ with 21 registers and 2 manuals was built in 1796 by Mistelbach organ builder Wenzel Okenfus. It was converted by Ferdinand Molzer in 1937 into an electro-pneumatic organ with 32 stops and 3 manuals using numerous older components . Between 2014 and 2019, the organ builder Ferdinand Salomon restored the organ to its original condition. 228 original pipes and the original Okenfus keyboard, which were found in the attic of the rectory, could be used.
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* with organ pipes from Okenfus
A smaller choir organ from 1766 used to be above the entrance to the sacristy. It was restored by Ferdinand Salomon in 1984 and is now next to the high altar.
Picture gallery
South view of the parish church
West facade with the volute gable visible from afar
Parish church with a war memorial
Main portal with inscription
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See also
literature
- DEHIO Lower Austria north of the Danube . Berger, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-85028-395-3 , pp. 900f.
- The Okenfus organ . Festschrift for the organ consecration. Organ Committee "Renovation of the Okenfus Organ", Poysdorf 2019
Web links
- Description of the church on the website of the Poysdorf deanery
- Entry on Parish Church Poysdorf in the Austria-Forum (chapter sacred buildings)
Individual evidence
- ^ City parish church Poysdorf (1629 - 1635). Cemetery and defensive wall. In: members.nanet.at. Parish Poysdorf, Organ Committee “Renovation of the Okenfus Organ”, accessed on November 26, 2017 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 40 ′ 12.1 ″ N , 16 ° 37 ′ 41.9 ″ E