Sierning parish church

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Parish church hl. Stephan in Sierning

The Sierning parish church is located in Sierning in the market town of Sierning in Upper Austria . The Roman Catholic parish church with the patronage of St. Stephan belongs to the deanery of Steyr in the diocese of Linz . The church is a listed building .

history

The place name was first mentioned in a document in 777 (foundation of the Benedictine monastery Kremsmünster by Duke Tassilo III. ), Based on the donation of thirty Slavs and the land they cleared. A first baptistery from the 8th century is assumed, probably a wooden church.

At the Synod of Mistelbach (dated 985 or 991) was of Bishop Pilgrim in the reorganization of the diocese of Passau , a Sprengel determined he possessed well over the Altsiedlungen Sierninghofen and Frauenhofen and perhaps had here an Episcopal own church , which should be a separate parish. No less than 27 independent daughter parishes of the Traunviertel have emerged from this mother parish , including such important ones as the former Garsten and Gleink monasteries .

In 1785, Schiedlberg and Thanststätten became their own parish ( Thanststätten, today Schiedlberg ). The parish was Passau until secularization in 1805.

architecture

The Gothic three-aisled staggered church has a four-bay nave, the central nave with a ribbed vault. Up to the triumphal arch, the central nave (at that time with a wooden ceiling) goes back to the year 1000. The aisles are from the 14th century. The north rib vaulted side aisle has a five-eighth end. The southern cross-rib vaulted aisle was continued south of the choir with two further rib vaulted yokes and has a three-eighth end. The tower in the north of the west facade has an onion helmet with a lantern.

On the southern exterior of the choir is a stone head from 1487, which was mistakenly believed to be Roman.

Furnishing

The neo-Gothic high altar has a late-Gothic canteen. The cafeteria of the south side altar is from 1288. The north side altar is from 1620 to 1626 and was transferred from the collegiate church of Garsten Abbey and changed. The pulpit is from the 1st third of the 18th century.

The Gothic font is in the choir.

literature

  • Sierning, parish church of St. Stephan. S. 316. 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

Commons : Parish Church of St. Stephan, Sierning  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Notes and individual references

  1. ^ Heike Johanna Mierau: Vita communis and parish pastoral care: Studies on the dioceses of Salzburg and Passau in the high and late Middle Ages. Verlag Böhlau, 1997, p. 443.
  2. ^ History of the parish: Parish church Sierning, St. Stephanus. dioezese-linz.at (accessed July 11, 2018).
  3. ^ Hans Krawarik: settlement history of Austria: the beginnings of settlement, settlement types, settlement genesis . LIT Geographie series , Volume 19, Lit Verlag, Vienna-Berlin 2006, 9783825890407, p. 162.
  4. ↑ a b Benedikt Pillwein (Ed.): History, geography and statistics of the Archduchy of Austria above the Enns and the Duchy of Salzburg . With a register, which is also the topographical and genealogical lexicon and the district map. Geographical-historical-statistical detail according to district commissariats. 1st edition. Third part: the Hausruckkreis . Joh. Christ. Quandt, Linz 1830, p. 420 f ( Google eBook ). 2nd edition 1843 ( Google Book ) - especially on the question of parish rule under Joseph II.
  5. ^ Information from Sierning. sierning.at > Community & Politics> Worth knowing , accessed July 10, 2018.
  6. ↑ Here was born on 7 April 1801 to 10 [pm] early Therese Helm baptized.

Coordinates: 48 ° 2 ′ 39.8 "  N , 14 ° 18 ′ 34.5"  E