Schwanenstadt parish church
The Roman Catholic parish church Schwanenstadt is located south of the town square of Schwanenstadt in Upper Austria . The church consecrated to the Archangel Michael belongs to the deanery Schwanenstadt in the diocese of Linz . Because of its size, it is sometimes called "Dom an der Ager". The church and the former cemetery area are under monument protection .
history
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The Schwanenstadt parish was first mentioned in 1291 and was then referred to as the center of a large and old main parish, to which the later independent parishes of Atzbach , Rüstorf and Desselbrunn also belonged. It probably goes back to the 8th century, when the first parishes came into being in the course of the Agilolfing monasteries of Mondsee and Kremsmünster and the reorganization of the dioceses. In addition to the settlement history of the place, the patronage of St. Michael in the Carolingian period.
The oldest reference to an earlier church is under the choir located crypt , which dates from a stone building dating from the 11th or 12th century. This Romanesque church was probably a three-aisled basilica . The church was badly damaged in the market fire in 1554 and rebuilt as a three-aisled hall church while retaining the walls of the nave and the late Gothic presbytery. In 1681 the choir was rebuilt in baroque form, whereby the old Gothic buttresses were taken over. The tower was destroyed in a fire in 1814 and rebuilt in a new form in 1829.
Since the church was viewed as too small and not very representative, a three-aisled new building in neo-Gothic style was built under the priest Johann Georg Huber from 1900 to 1902 according to the plans of Paul Hochegger under the execution of the architect Matthäus Schlager . Only the buttresses of the apse and the lower part of the tower remained from the previous building. The foundation stone was laid on September 16, 1900 and the inauguration on July 19, 1902 by Bishop Franz Maria Doppelbauer . The construction costs were 600,000 crowns .
description
architecture
The church has an internal area of around 960 m², the external length is 52 m and the largest width 35 m. The inner central vault has a height of 17 m and with the steep church roof the church measures 29 m. The church tower with the steep pointed spire is a landmark of the city and is around 80 m high. On the southern outer wall is a badly damaged late Gothic relief with a scene from the Mount of Olives from the end of the 15th century. Outside the choir are tombstones from the 16th to 18th centuries.
The three-aisled hall church consists of a six-bay nave and an adjoining choir with a 3/8 end. The transept is at the height of the second nave yoke. The vault is supported by massive round granite columns.
Furnishing
The uniform neo-Gothic furnishings were created in the workshop of Ludwig Linzinger from 1902 to 1907 .
The high altar from 1906 in the form of a shrine shows in the middle part a life-size carved representation of the Last Supper , flanked by the figures of St. Sebastian and Florian . In the burst are the statues of the three archangels , in the middle the church patron Michael, flanked by Gabriel and Raphael .
The two side altars are designed as winged altars . The right side altar from 1907, the Trinity altar, shows a carving of the coronation of Mary by the Holy Trinity, the left side altar from 1902, the Mary Altar, shows a statue of Mary between two angels. On the predella under the shrine there is a Gothic relief of the Entombment of Christ from around 1500.
On the right side wall is a late Gothic crescent moon Madonna created around 1470 . Twelve baroque statues of apostles from around 1750 from the high altar of the old church were attached to the pillars.
The pneumatic organ with 37 registers is a work by Josef Mauracher from 1905 and is considered to be his largest and also his last work. The organ was restored in the 1990s.
Bells
The bells drawn in during the First World War were replaced in 1920 by steel bells that could remain in the tower during the Second World War. In 1977 donations made it possible to purchase a new bell with five bronze bells with a total weight of 4800 kg, which were cast by the Perner bell foundry in Passau.
literature
- Schwanenstadt, parish church of St. Archangel Michael. Christian Art Places of Austria, No. 217, Verlag St. Peter, Salzburg, 1st edition 1992
- Schwanenstadt, parish church St. Michael. S. 314. In: The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Upper Austria. By Erwin Hainisch , reworked by Kurt Woisetschläger , prefaces to the 3rd edition (1958) and 4th edition (1960) by Walter Frodl , sixth edition, Verlag Anton Schroll & Co., Vienna 1977.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Schwanenstadt parish: History of the city parish church ; Retrieved July 6, 2016
- ↑ Schwanenstadt then and now - Festschrift for the 300 year celebration; August 1927 ( Online, page 36 )
- ↑ Schwanenstadt parish: city parish church from the inside ; Retrieved July 6, 2016
Coordinates: 48 ° 3 ′ 16.4 ″ N , 13 ° 46 ′ 30.9 ″ E