Pressbaum parish church

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West view of the parish church with the rectory built in 1881 (left) and the war memorial (right)

The parish church Pressbaum is a Roman Catholic parish church in the center of the Lower Austrian town of Pressbaum . It was built as the Kaiser Franz Joseph Jubilee Church , is consecrated to the Holy Trinity and belongs to the Purkersdorf Dean's Office of the Archdiocese of Vienna .

The church with its special style is an important monument in the sacred architecture of Lower Austria and is a listed building .

history

In the course of the Josephine church reforms , Pressbaum, which previously belonged to the Purkersdorf parish , became an independent parish in 1783. From 1906 the current church was built according to plans by the architects Max Hegele and August Rehak and consecrated in 1908 to celebrate the 60th year of Emperor Franz Josef's reign . The neighboring old, small baroque church from 1730, which was dedicated to the plague saints Rochus of Montpellier , Sebastian and Rosalia , was demolished in the same year.

description

inside view

The south-east facing hall building with the north facade tower is built in the secessionist style (Art Nouveau) . Simple, stylized pointed and round arched windows as well as buttresses on the longitudinal walls evoke associations with medieval architecture.

The hall church has a four-bay nave with a transept and a retracted choir . Are the choir across house like the sacristy as well as a wedding chapel grown. On the west side of the nave there is a protruding semicircular Lady Chapel. The gable façade is staggered by an imaginary vestibule with a balustrade and thus loosened up. The secessionist furnishings planned by the architects were partly changed into neo-Gothic forms, in particular the high altar and pulpit, and some objects from the old parish church were also taken over.

Web links

Commons : Parish Church Pressbaum  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Dehio-Handbuch: Lower Austria, south of the Danube, part 2, p. 1738f; Berger publishing house, Horn / Vienna 2003
  2. ^ Parish Pressbaum: History ; Retrieved June 19, 2017
  3. ↑ Max Hegele. In: Architects Lexicon Vienna 1770–1945. Published by the Architekturzentrum Wien . Vienna 2007.

Coordinates: 48 ° 10 ′ 44.1 ″  N , 16 ° 4 ′ 40.1 ″  E