Parish church in Schwertberg

Parish church hll. Philip and James

Crucifix on the choir side of the church

The parish church Schwertberg is located south of the market square in Schwertberg in the district of Perg in Upper Austria's Mühlviertel and is consecrated to Saints Philip and James .

The late Gothic church building from the 15th century had two aisles , was expanded in 1913/1914 to its present size and shape and thoroughly renovated inside and outside in 1985.

geography

The church building is the parish church of the parish Schwertberg, a Roman Catholic parish in the deanery Perg in the region Mühlviertel in for the state of Upper Austria competent Austrian diocese of Linz in the ecclesiastical province of Vienna .

This is managed within the church administration with the parish number 4387 and looks after 4,158 Catholics, who are mainly spread over the municipality of Schwertberg. There are still overlaps between parish and parish boundaries in Aisthofen.

The parish is part of the Mauthausen-Schwertberg pastoral care area .

Neighboring parishes are the parish churches of Mauthausen , Naarn , Perg and Allerheiligen in the deanery Perg and the parishes of Ried in der Riedmark and Tragwein in the deanery Pregarten .

history

History of the parish

In ecclesiastical matters, the area of ​​Schwertberg belonged to the mother parish of Naarn in the diocese of Passau, which was already mentioned in documents in 823 .

On February 19, 1357 declared Bishop Godfrey of Passau on the request of Eberhard I of chapels , the former branch church to church and handed over the men of Windegg the patronage sovereignty . The parish included the Schwertberg market east of the Aist and the villages of Lina , Winden and Windegg .

From 1559 to 1626 there were no Catholic services in the parish of Schwertberg because the lords of Windegg and Schwertberg, united under Hannes IV von Tschernembl, appointed Protestant pastors ( preachers ). In the course of the Counter Reformation , which was operated in the Lower Mühlviertel by Joachim Enzmilner , the re-Catholicization took place . 1630 authentic are Matrikenaufzeichnungen the parish available.

As a result of the reforms introduced by Maria Theresa , the villages of Poneggen and Sand came from the parish Ried in the Riedmark and Aisthofen from the parish Perg to the parish Schwertberg from 1775 to 1777 . In the course of the Josephine reforms in 1785, the localities of Aisting , Doppl and Josefstal were separated from the parish Ried in the Riedmark and parish to Schwertberg and the parish area was completed in its current form.

It was not until 2002 that the owner of Schwertberg Castle relinquished patronage over the parish of Schwertberg.

History of the church

The time and style of construction of the branch church in Schwertberg can no longer be determined.

A late Gothic new building was built around 1500 using a two-aisled nave . The two central aisles of the church are the same height. Octagonal pillars support a ribbed vault . The narrow side aisles are much lower in the front part due to the basilical scheme . From the west wall, the gallery spans onto the nave on both sides with side galleries.

The choir has two yokes and a 3/8 end . Located on the south wall of the choir-a plate with the crest of Tschernembls from before the 1620th

The sacristy was built around 1700 . The statue on the south wall depicts Saint Roch and dates from 1717.

On the outside wall of the church there are tombstones of various personalities, u. a. Daniel Trölß († 1736) and Alix von Habsburg-Toskana and their three daughters.

The Marien side altar (left) dates from 1747 and shows Mary with the baby Jesus from 1886 by Engelbert Westreicher . To the left of the altar is a figure of John the Baptist and to the right of St. Joseph .

The right side altar is dedicated to St. Margaret .

The Anna side altar was purchased in 1750. The altarpiece has a figure niche and is framed by pilasters . In the niche are St. Anne with her daughter Maria , with two prophets to one side. The Anna altar is equipped with changing altarpieces related to the church year .

In 1777 Count Josef Gundaker Thürheim had a crypt built next to the south-east corner of the church. The building has a large basket arch - arcade and a hipped roof . A sundial was painted on the south wall . Inside there is a crucifix from 1730 and several inscription plates from people who died between 1793 and 1909, including Floridus Fromwald (last abbot of Waldhausen Abbey) and Prince Andrei Kirillowitsch Rasumowski (Russian ambassador in Vienna).

The baptismal font with John the Baptist in front of the Anna altar was purchased in 1879.

On the east side of the buttresses- supported apse is a life-size wooden crucifix from the period after 1900.

Pastor Hiptmair had the parish church on the west side enlarged from 1913 to 1914 according to plans by cathedral builder Matthäus Schlager with a three-bay annex in the shape of a cross and a two-aisled extension at window height on the long sides and heightened the church tower .

The windows of the north wall were donated by various people on the occasion of the church expansion and show, among other things. a. the handing over of the keys to Peter, the blessing of the children by Jesus, Jesus after his resurrection with the disciples in Emmaus and St. Sebastian .

On the north wall of the choir, above the opening to the tower, there is an oratorio window in neo-Gothic form with three lanes from 1913/1914.

The high altar was also put together in 1913/1914 from parts of the baroque high altar from 1774. There is a box-shaped above the altar rococo - Tabernacle from 1774, flanked laterally by two angels. In one is relief from the year 1683 with Rocaille - ornamentation seen. The two figures to the right and left of the altar table represent the two church patrons .

In 1924 the organ with two manuals and 15 registers in two separate cases was built by Wilhelm Zika (1872–1955) from Ottensheim.

On the galleries there are pictures of the Way of the Cross by Adolf Wutschl from 1925.

The windows on the south wall were donated by Schwertbergers in the 1930s. a. Christ before Caiaphas, the denial of Peter, the stigmatization of Francis of Assisi .

A renovation of the church and the altars took place between 1956 and 1957 under Pastor Karl Landl. Pastor Johann Stöllnberger had the church completely refurbished, paying special attention to liturgical conditions. Among other things, he had the chancel lifted, the confessionals renewed, the pulpit removed and the people's altar and ambo installed.

Others

• 1689 Carlo Antonio Carlone builds the Kalvarienbergkapelle and Adam Koller, market judge and owner of the brewery , places the order for the construction of the Way of the Cross. The Kalvarienbergkapelle was last renovated in 1989. The Stations of the Cross chapels were given bronze cast pictures of the Stations of the Cross by Jakob Kopp in 1983.
• 1878 Inauguration of the new cemetery. Before 1803 the cemetery was around the church and until 1878 on the slope after the old school.
• 1889 Opening of the parish caritas kindergarten run by the Sisters of the Cross.
• 1950 Consecration of three new bells, only the death bell remained in the parish church in 1941.
• 1968 Establishment of a rectory and rectory with a parish hall
• 1976 Construction of a mortuary together with the community

literature

• Eckhart Oberklammer: District Perg - Art and History. Linz 2010.

Web links

Commons : Parish Church Schwertberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Homepage of the parish of Schwertberg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Catholic parish in Upper Austria - Parish Finder ( Memento of the original from October 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Parish 4387 queried on December 8, 2011. 
2. ↑ Schwertberg in the cultural atlas Doris -Land Upper Austria, queried on December 8, 2011 (switch to the map boundaries of the municipalities and cadastral municipalities)
3. ↑ Statistics Austria: Ortverzeichnis Oberösterreich 2001, Vienna 2005, District Perg, S 205ff ( PDF , accessed on November 17, 2011)

Coordinates: 48 ° 16 ′ 22.8 "  N , 14 ° 34 ′ 55.5"  E