Parish church Puchenau
The Puchenau parish church - also known as the new Puchenau parish church - is located in the municipality of Puchenau in the Urfahr-Umgebung district near Linz in Upper Austria . The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Andreas belongs to the dean's office Linz-Nord in the diocese of Linz . The church is a listed building .
history
A church with Casa Dei ad pochinauua was documented in 827 . A separate pastor was mentioned in a document in 1321. The patronage of St. Andreas was mentioned in a document in 1497. The church loan went from the diocese of Freising to the Puchheimers and in 1348 to the sovereigns, was with the Schaunbergers from 1383 to 1461, with the Liechtensteiners from 1461 to 1593 and with the Jörgers from 1593 to 1625. Then the parish was incorporated into Wilhering Abbey and looked after by Cistercian fathers. The incorporation was recognized by the Bishop of Passau in 1714.
After the old parish church on the banks of the Danube was no longer sufficient for the growing community, planning for the new building a few hundred meters further north began in the 1960s. The old church is now used as a cemetery church.
The new parish church Puchenau was designed by the architect 1975/1976 Roland Rainer built and bishop on October 3, 1976 Franz Zauner ordained .
architecture
The entire complex consists of the New Parish Church and the Old Parish Church (today the cemetery church), the parish hall, youth rooms and kindergarten, the parsonage and a cemetery on the south-eastern outskirts.
The new church building has a special place in Roland Rainer's work. He reflected historical models of central Armenian churches , such as St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow or the Aachen Palatine Chapel with the intention of universal historicism.
There are three octagonal central rooms of different sizes and heights, which are illuminated from above with light towers. The large octagon as the main room is joined to the east by the small octagon as a baptistery and to the north by the middle octagon as a weekday chapel. The walls show themselves exclusively through the color and laying of the masonry made of old hand-cut bricks.
Inside the church, the chapels are connected to the main room, but each room has its own effect. The main room has an octagonal or circular staircase on the floor, trough-shaped towards the center, where the altar table is slightly eastward from the center.
Furnishing
The furnishings, designed by Roland Rainer, are made of white marble with gilding. Waltrud Viehböck and Arthur Viehböck created the tabernacle . A late baroque crucifix probably from the third quarter of the 18th century is in the weekday chapel. The Way of the Cross made of enamel reliefs was created in 1978.
The organ in a plexiglass case with second manuals and 15 registers was built by the Upper Austrian organ building institute St. Florian (1982).
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Mühlviertel 2003 . Puchenau, Roman Catholic Pastoral Care Center St. Andreas, pp. 622-627.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 18 ′ 40.7 ″ N , 14 ° 14 ′ 24.5 ″ E