Parish Church of Saxen

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Catholic parish church of St. Stephen in Saxen
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The parish church of Saxen stands in the middle of the village in the market town of Saxen in the district of Perg in Upper Austria . The Roman Catholic parish church consecrated to Saint Stephen belongs to the Grein deanery in the diocese of Linz . The church building is under monument protection ( list entry ).

history

History of the parish

In the document Confirmatio Ludovici Pii , written in 823, Emperor Ludwig the Pious left the Passau bishop two churches in Saxen ( in Saxinum Basilicas duas ) in addition to the settlements in Ried and Naarn . The second church could be Hofkirchen bei Saxen or Andreaskirche in Mitterkirchen or the baptistery in Arbing Castle . Together with Naarn in Machlande and Ried in Riedmark, Saxen was one of the three original parishes in the lower Mühlviertel . The area of ​​this main clearing parish comprised the lower Machland and the Strudengau north of the Danube and thus essentially the eastern part of today's Perg district . The mother parish of Saxen extended from the Danube to today's Freistadt district and in a west-east direction from the Naarn valley or later the Deiminger Bach to the Yspertal in the Waldviertel .

In 1147 the parish went to the former Augustinian canons of Säbnich , Waldhausen Monastery, to which it was incorporated in 1399.

In 1688, Pastor Ignaz Ritter created a news book about the status of the parish and the customs and practices in the course of the year, in which the traditional Allerheiligenstriezel is mentioned for the first time.

After the Waldhausen Abbey was abolished in 1786, the assets went to the Religionsfonds. In the 19th century the parish of Saxen became independent again.

History of the parish church

A wooden church can be assumed for the year 823. The core of today's north aisle presumably contains remains of Romanesque walls. The former burial chapel from the middle of the 14th century forms the eastern part of the south aisle, which was built 200 years later. The choir dates from the first quarter of the 15th century (supposedly 1421). Around 1520/1530, the old burial chapel was expanded to create a two-aisled nave. According to the keystone with the coat of arms of Perger von Clam , who ran it from 1524 to 1550, the vault was built after 1524, allegedly by master builder Michael Hafner. The tower was built in the middle of the 15th century.

The tower with a pointed helmet was raised in 1855. In 1969 a sacristy was added. In 1952 the interior was restored, in 1975 the exterior with the nave and choir, and in 1979 with the tower.

architecture

The remarkable two-aisled five-bay asymmetrical late Gothic nave hall is stylistically related to the parish churches of St. Johann am Wimberg and Schönau and, in Lower Austria, with St. Valentin and Mank . The south aisle with a three-eighth closure was a former burial chapel. The nave is vaulted with slightly ogival lancet barrels on slender octagonal pillars, underlaid with a mesh rib configuration with cassettes and rhombuses, which in part disregard the vault formation.

The richly designed south portal forms a keel-arched vestibule. Next to the simple northern portal is a Gothic sandstone sculpture that is unique in Upper Austria. The bearded head of a crouching monk could represent the client who probably came from Waldhausen Abbey.

Furnishing

Two Gothic glass panes from the time the choir was built in the second quarter of the 15th century have been preserved in the choir windows. The two 70 x 30 cm glass paintings depict the “ Beheading of John the Baptist ” and “ Christ on the Mount of Olives ” and are stylistically related to the six glass panels on St. Martin in the Mühlkreis and the six panels in the parish church in Euratsfeld . The composition of the beheading is artistically impressive, giving the scene a scene and movement.

The baroque high altar from 1680 is a columned retable with a blown volute gable and a column-framed extract . The high altar painting Martyrdom of St. Stephanus painted Clemens Beuttler (around 1680), the reverse with crucifixion , signed Maischberger 1857, is the alternating picture for Lent. The extract of the defense speech of St. Stephanus is from Clemens Beuttler. The side figures show Peter and Paul , the top of the excerpt is the figure of St. Michael.

The close connection with the Clam rulership is evident from the objects within the church that were brought here after the church and crypt in Hofkirchen were abolished in 1784. Below is the tombstone of Johann Leopold Clam, whose 23-line inscription pays tribute to the curriculum vitae and the merits of the grandson of the “first clamer” Johann Gottfried Perger , who died on September 11, 1727 in Linz .

The organ was created by Josef Breinbauer in 1855 with a three-tower neo-baroque case with a seven-field front, the round central tower is higher, and there are angels on the side towers. The organ was restored by the Upper Austrian Orgelbauanstalt St. Florian with Helmut Kögler in 2003/2004.

Bells

In the war year 1917, three of the four bells had to be removed from the tower and delivered for war purposes. The largest of these bells bore the inscription “ Franz Ser. Hollederer in Linz 1849 ”, another the text“ Johann Hollederer poured me in Linz 1839 ”. In 1922, thanks to a grain collection carried out in the community, two new replacement bells made of bronze for 60,000,000  Austrian crowns were procured, which were consecrated with great solemnity on the second Sunday of Advent. In 1941, the new bells had to be removed from the tower again, only the 15th and 16th. The small bell cast in the 19th century was spared again.

On Sunday, June 12, 1949, the consecration of three new and the old cast bell took place:

  • the large bell with the image of St. Stephen weighs 525 kg and is 0.96 m in diameter.
  • the Marienglocke with the picture “ Maria with the child ” weighs 312 kg, diameter 0.81 m.
  • the bell with the image of St. Anthony of Padua and St. Leonhard von Limoges weighs 217 kg, diameter 0.74 m.
  • the smallest bell was made from the metal of the old, damaged bell from the 15th and 16th centuries. Century cast. The death bell with the image of St. Joseph of Nazareth and weighing approx. 125 kg has been in the cemetery building since 1965.

In 1958, the largest bell for bells was also purchased from the Upper Austrian bell and metal foundry in St. Florian . The 1038 kg "Bummerin" with a diameter of 124 cm was brought to the church on December 8, 1958 from the square in front of the train station in a festive procession. In 1963 an electric bell system was installed on 4 bells.

In spring 2012 the bell chair was completely renewed by the company Schauer-Sachs from Salzburg .

See also

literature

  • The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Mühlviertel 2003 . Saxen, Parish Church of St. Stephen, with floor plan, rectory, pp. 801–803.
  • Benno Ulm: The Mühlviertel. His works of art, historical forms of life and settlement. In: Austrian art monograph. Volume V, Salzburg 1971, 2nd revised edition 1976, pp. 20, 200-202.

Web links

Commons : Pfarrkirche Saxen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Benno Ulm 1976, p. 201.
  2. ↑ Benno Ulm 1976, p. 20.
  3. ^ Richard Kastner: Customs and customs in the Saxen rectory. In: Upper Austrian homeland sheets. Volume 1, Issue 3, Linz 1947, p. 267, full article, p. 266–268, online (PDF) in the OoeGeschichte.at forum: “On All Saints Day, the children come to get holy stritzel that can be bought at the bakery. Each receives a stritzel worth 1 penny and nuts and apples "
  4. ^ The stained glass in the parish church in Saxen. In: Christian art sheets . Volume 67, Linz 1926, pp. 7-9, online at ANNO .
  5. ↑ a b c d Florian Oberchristl: Bells of the Diocese of Linz. Verlag R. Pirngruber, Linz 1941, p. 481.
  6. ↑ a b c d e f Konrad Streicher: The sad and happy story of the Saxner bells. Saxen 2012.

Coordinates: 48 ° 12 '28 "  N , 14 ° 47' 26.1"  E