Holy Trinity (Rosenau Castle)

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Entrance to the church

The Roman Catholic parish church of the Holy Trinity on the west side of Rosenau Castle in the town of the same name in Lower Austria was consecrated in 1739 and elevated to a parish church a year later. She belongs to the Deanery Zwettl . The baroque central building has a cross-shaped floor plan. The older castle chapel is integrated into its eastern arm . The cross arms and the sacristy were added in 1767–1768. Planning and execution fall during the reign of Count Leopold Christoph von Schallenberg , who at the same time had the adjoining Renaissance palace redesigned in the Baroque style. The church is a listed building .

Exterior

The nave is at the same height as the castle and has slightly lower symmetrical cross arms with beveled corners in the north and south. The choir with a slightly retracted round apse and adjoining, rounded sacristy is about the same height as the aisles. The facade is structured by a plaster structure and offset arched windows. The southern transverse arm is accessible through a flat arch portal, which is surrounded by arched niches with figures of St. Mary and Joseph from around 1768 is flanked.

There are six baroque statues made of sandstone on the staircase to the portal, which was newly constructed in 1968. The statue in front on the left represents Rochus of Montpellier , the right Teresa of Ávila ; in the middle, Anthony of Padua and Felix of Valois ; above Franz von Paola and Donatus von Münstereifel .

Interior

Despite the different construction phases, the interior shows a uniform, baroque spatial effect.

The east arm integrated into the castle has a groin vault . It is opened to the castle courtyard through a rectangular portal. The single-arched organ loft, arched under the stab cap, with curved parapet, is decorated with stucco . On the sides of the nave, opposite each other, there are two galleries with swinging flat arch openings and bulging parapets made of stucco marble with shell-shaped approaches. The crossing with beveled corners under a flat dome connects the aisles. The transverse arms are vaulted by barrels of needle cap, somewhat narrower than the dome and beveled at the corners. The rectangular choir has a groin or dome vault and a semicircular apse. On the east wall there are two wide galleries with curved parapets and rocaille-decorated approaches. The rooms are structured by pilasters with composite capitals and richly profiled entablature with a stuccoed frieze. They feature various Masonic and Christian symbols.

On the ceiling paintings in the dome the glorification of the name of Mary and the glory of St. Leopold pictured; the fresco above the organ, an 'angel concert' from around 1739/1740, is attributed to the baroque painter Paul Troger .

Facility

High altar of the church

The late baroque furnishings from the construction period include two corresponding side altars and two pulpits made of stucco marble. The high altar is a sarcophagus altar with a structure with angular pillars, a volute with the coat of arms of the Schallenberg family, an altar leaf St. Trinity , side figures of John and Moses and putti on the top. The tabernacle is flanked by figures of angels. The two corresponding side altars have wall retables with volute framing, side figures of angels and putti as well as altar leaves from around 1900. On the left altar leaf is depicted Christ on the Mount of Olives, on the right Mary with child after Raphael. Both pulpits have curved parapets and shell inlets. A relief Conversion of St. Pauli can be seen on the north , and Moses in the battle of Raphidim on the south . The volute gables of the pulpits have oval medallions with portraits of the evangelists.

The organ - a work by Leopold Breinbauer from 1895 - has a baroque case from the second half of the 18th century.

Further furnishings include baroque figures of the hll. Leopold and Florian, a copy of Maria Taferl's miraculous image , a baroque dining rack with a coat of arms of the Schallenberg-Gilleis family and bells by Ferdinand Vötterlechner from 1743 and 1759.

literature

Web links

Commons : Holy Trinity  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Archives for Rosenau Castle. In: ZCrux - small monuments around Zwettl in the Waldviertel. TZ-COM, accessed on August 22, 2012 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 36 ′ 4.2 "  N , 15 ° 3 ′ 47.8"  E