Parish Church Schleissheim

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Catholic parish church of St. Gallus in Schleissheim
inside view
Left side altar

The Roman Catholic parish church in Schleissheim is located in the municipality of Schleissheim in the Wels-Land district in Upper Austria . It is consecrated to St. Gall and belongs to the Deanery Wels-Land in the Diocese of Linz . The building is under monument protection ( list entry ).

history

The church is mentioned for the first time in 1399.

architecture

Church exterior

The church is a late Gothic hall church. The church tower with two buttresses has a pointed spire . The north and south portal are two-bay.

Church interior

The late Gothic hall church has three bays. Above it is a ribbed vault . The two-bay choir is drawn in and vaulted with mesh ribs . The choir closes at 3/8. The sacrament niche is late Gothic. In the left and right chancel window there are stained glass from around 1400. On the left, the "Saint Nicholas in the ship" is depicted, on the right, " The Visitation of Mary ". In the sacristy there is a coat of arms disk with the Grienthal coat of arms from 1583.

Furnishing

Remains of Gothic winged altars have been incorporated into the neo-Gothic side altars. In the shrine on the left side altar, a three-dimensional seated Madonna statue is depicted. It is a poor work from the middle of the 14th century. The clothes and the child were added later. On the inside of the wings are reliefs of the "Visitation", " Annunciation ", " Christmas " and the "Adoration of the Magi ". Four female saints from around 1520 are painted on the outside of the wings. In the relay shrine under the figure of the Madonna is a group of "Saint Anna selbdritt " from the beginning of the 16th century. On the outside of the wings, “Christ Misery” and “Our Lady of Sorrows” are depicted. Angels from around 1520 holding coats of arms are depicted on the fixed wings.

In the shrine on the right side altar there are figures of Saints John the Baptist and Erasmus from the beginning of the 16th century. The other statues are more recent. On the fixed wings there are paintings of Saints Leopold , Stephanus , Sebald and Lorenz from 1520. In the relay shrine there is a group of figures that comforts Saint Leonhard , the prisoner. The group of figures is from the beginning of the 16th century. "Christ on the Mount of Olives" and "Crucifixion" are painted on the inside of the wings, while "Christ's misery" and the "Sorrowful Mother of God" are depicted on the outside of the wings.

On the west gallery hangs a picture of St. Gall by Josef Stainer from 1762. There are also remarkable Renaissance tombstones with figural reliefs for Hans Dietmar von Grienthal († 1599) and Andreas von Grienthal († 1597). On the outer wall are superbly crafted heraldic gravestones from around 1600. A Roman relief stone on the southwest corner of the sacristy depicting a "snake-strangling Hercules boy" comes from a larger tomb.

Bell jar

The bell was cast in 1638.

literature

  • DEHIO manual. The art monuments of Austria: Upper Austria. Schleissheim. Parish church hl. Gallus. Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.), Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1977, 6th edition, p. 307.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Upper Austria - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. ( Memento from June 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) . Federal Monuments Office , as of June 21, 2016 (PDF).

Coordinates: 48 ° 9 '39.4 "  N , 14 ° 4' 37.4"  E