Schrattenthal parish church
The Schrattenthal parish church is a late Gothic Baroque Roman Catholic hall church with a west tower in Schrattenthal (Lower Austria). It stands in the northeast corner of the local area and is dedicated to St. Augustine .
The church belongs to the deanery Retz-Pulkautal in the vicariate Unter dem Manhartsberg of the Archdiocese of Vienna . Until September 1, 2016, she was part of the Retz dean's office . The church is a listed building .
Parish and building history
On April 4, 1434, Ulrich von Eyczing bought Schrattenthal and in 1450 had the parish church built, which was originally connected to a St. Mary's Chapel in the south, called “ Our Lady ” since the 14th century , and consecrated to St. Bernardine . In 1452 the Schrattenthal parish was first mentioned in a document, and in 1476 it became an Augustinian canon - provost , which held parish rights from 1479.
In 1495 Martin Freiherr von Eyczing introduced the Brotherhood of the Seven Sorrows in the Probstei . From Holland he brought a tempera picture of the Seven Pains to Schrattenthal, which showed the same picture on both sides on a lime wood panel covered with gold . Placed between the church and the chapel, it could be venerated from both sides. In the Marienkapelle there was a late Gothic statue of Mary with the child, the so-called "Schrattenthaler Mother of God", which is now in the church of the Carmelite monastery in Gmunden (Upper Austria). In 1534 the provost and with it the parish were dissolved.
In 1575, 1621 and 1783 large parts of the city were destroyed by fires. The fire in 1783 also damaged the Marienkapelle so badly that it was demolished. There were extensive renovations of the parish church, which received a uniform late Baroque interior. The devotional image of the Seven Sorrows of Mary was integrated into the high altar. In 1784 the parish was raised again and the church was consecrated again. In 1850 the final change of patronage from St. Bernardine to St. Augustine instead.
Renovations took place in 1826, 1854, 1893 and 1910 and restorations took place in 1957/58 and 1967/68. On November 24, 1986 the foundation wall and the crypt of the Marienkapelle were discovered and uncovered in 1987 during a village renewal project. From the excavated architectural parts, a field altar was built in 2001 in the former chapel room.
In 1989 an extensive exterior renovation took place. Since then, the church facade has again matched the appearance of the respective construction period of 1450 and 1784.
Building description
Outside
The late Gothic west tower with grooved slit windows dates from the time it was built in the middle of the 15th century. It is structured with pilaster strips and has a top floor with clock gables from 1783/84 under a folding roof .
The nave and the one-bay choir with five-eighth end and triple stepped buttresses with prismatic corner pieces also come from the time of construction. The choir has rounded and partially walled Gothic windows with remains of tracery .
Presumably on the site of a north tower that was destroyed in the 16th century, there is a two-storey sacristy extension with a late baroque extension from 1783/84. On the south side, a late Baroque chapel and oratory annex emerged from the former connection to the Marienkapelle .
Inside
The tower hall, which was originally opened to the side by grooved pointed arches, with segmented arched seating niches in the west is closed off by a groin vault .
The nave has a centralizing middle yoke between two short yokes with square vaults from the years 1783/84. The parapet of the choir loft, which is vaulted with a Gothic ribbed vault in the western yoke, also dates from this period . A barrel vaulted chapel with a late baroque oratory is built on the south side. The transition to the choir is formed by an ogival beveled triumphal arch .
A late baroque net rib vault with heraldic keystones on octagonal fluted wall templates spans the choir. In the right choir wall is a session niche with three-pass arches in a barbed frame. A double grooved portal opens up the northern, star-vaulted sacristy annex .
Furnishing
The uniform late baroque interior dates from the period after 1783. The high altar is designed as a three-part architectural lining of the end of the choir with a central extension and including the side windows made of stucco marble. The middle group of stucco depicts the Holy Trinity , flanked by the statues of St. Augustine and St. Bernard. On the tabernacle is the miraculous image of the Seven Sorrows, Mary.
Two side altars are nestled in the corners of the nave. The altar leaves are presumably by Franz Xaver Wagenschön and show St. John Nepomuk on the left altar and St. Francis on the right altar .
On the sound cover of the pulpit is a figure of Salvator mundi .
The furnishings include a carved group " Mercy Seat " from the second half of the 18th century, the Stations of the Cross from the end of the 18th century, a polygonal baptismal font made of Adnet marble from the 15th century, an epitaph with a couple and a crucifix from the mid-17th century . Century, a tombstone made of Adneter marble with a knight figure from the first half of the 16th century and coat of arms gravestones of the Eyczinger from the years 1480, 1504 and 1563. These gravestones were above the crypt in front of the high altar, in which some up to the end of the 19th century important members of the Eyczinger family were buried, set in the ground and attached to the walls of the church in 1879.
organ
The organ with a neo-Gothic prospect was built by Josef Silberbauer in 1796 .
Bell jar
The bell was in 1748 by the bell-founder Ferdinand Angerer in Vienna made
literature
- Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.): Dehio Niederösterreich - north of the Danube . Anton Schroll & Co., Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-7031-0652-2 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Lower Austria - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. ( Memento of May 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) . Federal Monuments Office , as of June 26, 2015 (PDF).
- ↑ a b Dehio p. 1058
- ↑ a b City tour on the Club Schrattenthal website , accessed on May 4, 2016
- ↑ Dehio pp. 1058/59
- ↑ Dehio p. 1059
Coordinates: 48 ° 43 ′ 1 ″ N , 15 ° 54 ′ 36 ″ E