Parish church Puchberg am Schneeberg
The parish church of Puchberg am Schneeberg is in the south of Burggasse in the market town of Puchberg am Schneeberg in the Neunkirchen district in Lower Austria . The parish church consecrated to Saint Vitus belongs to the dean's office Neunkirchen in the vicariate under the Vienna Woods of the Archdiocese of Vienna . The church is a listed building ( list entry ).
history
In 1264 a church was mentioned in a document. In 1350 a parish was named. From 1549 there were bailiff rights to Johann Baptist Freiherr von Hoyos . On April 22nd, 1945 the church burned down due to the effects of the Second World War . In 1948/1949 the church was rebuilt according to the plans of the architect Rudolf Sedlaczek. In 1977 the outside of the church was restored. In 1986 the tower was restored. In 1993 the interior was restored.
architecture
The late Gothic church has a higher choir, a lower nave, and a prominent west tower. The additions were made later.
The exterior of the church shows Gothic buttresses stepped in the east and south, the south-eastern buttress gives the year 1526. The initially two-aisled choir has been preserved under a higher half-hipped roof. The western entrance bay with a spiral staircase has a reinforced shoulder portal from the second half of the 15th century. The west tower from the fourth quarter of the 15th century, four-storey tapered over cornices, received a renewed wedge roof in 1956. The tower shows key and slot notches, some with noses, the round-arched sound windows have a ribbed base profile, the west portal is a late Gothic ribbed pointed arch portal with the entry 1808 Hoyos , in the north of the tower there is an anniversary and renovation inscription Emperor Franz Joseph I 1898. It gives a priest's tombstone to Johan Michael Gratl in 1758.
The interior of the church was significantly changed by the reconstruction in 1948/1949, in particular by the flat wooden ceiling and the timbered gallery with paneled parapet. Two wide pillar arcades connect the main nave to the side aisle under a double arched coffered ceiling and a large front picture of the legend of St. Vitus by the painter Hans Alexander Brunner from 1958. A retracted triumphal arch opens the main nave to the polygonal choir under a flat ceiling. The tower ground floor has a preserved star rib vault partly on heraldic shield consoles, one console mentions 1498. Godi Hirschi created the abstract stained glass in the choir in 2002.
Furnishing
The larger than life crucifix was made in the third quarter of the 18th century. The Madonna statue was created in the fourth quarter of the 19th century. Paul Ocsenasek named the Way of the Cross in beaten sheet metal in 1955.
The organ was built by the Upper Austrian Organ Builders in 1982 .
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria south of the Danube 2003 . Puchberg am Schneeberg, parish church St. Vitus, rectory. P. 1755.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 47 ′ 8.9 ″ N , 15 ° 54 ′ 49.6 ″ E