Parish Church of Sonnberg
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The Sonnberg parish church is an east-facing Roman Catholic church in Sonnberg (Lower Austria). It is dedicated to Saints Peter and Paul .
The church belongs to the Hollabrunn dean's office in the vicariate Unter dem Manhartsberg and is a listed building .
Building history
Under canon law, the parish of Sonnberg was part of the parish of St. Agatha-Hausleiten until the Sonnbergers alienated it from the mother parish at the beginning of the 13th century. Church bailiwick and patronage remained with the rulership of Sonnberg, which in return transferred a property near Großweikersdorf and a farm in Oberhollabrunn to the parish Hausleiten . The first written mention of the parish comes from the year 1220. According to legend, it is said to have been founded by Hadmar von Sonnberg after returning from a crusade . In fact, it probably means the alienation of Hausleiten. During the Reformation , the parish suffered the fate of many other parishes and disappeared. Not until 1783 is there another documentary mention of the parish rebuilt by Emperor Joseph II .
The originally Romanesque building from the first quarter of the 13th century was expanded to include a late Gothic tower, a choir and a sacristy in the south. The church is surrounded by the former cemetery. Parts of the cemetery wall are still preserved. After a fire in the middle of the 18th century, the nave was re-vaulted and the core of the late Gothic southern sacristy was extended. In the 19th century, the nave was extended by a choir of the same width and a side chapel was added to the south, which was consecrated in 1842.
The church was renovated in 1840/41 and restored in 1955.
Building description
Outside
There is a gable roof over the nave with rectangular windows. There are scored corner blocks at the two western corners of the nave . The choir has buttresses stepped twice. The southern sacristy, which is essentially late Gothic, has rectangular windows with a fascia frame. A side chapel with a lower shed roof connects to this in the west.
The west tower, which is essentially medieval, has a portal on the west side, double-stepped corner buttresses, key notches and arched sound windows. Above it are a clock gable and a pointed helmet from 1884, which is crowned by a cross over a tower ball. The three free-standing ends of the cross each end in a three-leaf clover. To the right of the portal is a rectangular door that gives access to the stairs to the gallery and the tower.
On the south facade there is a tombstone from 1756, which is labeled " Barbara Reyhofferin ".
Inside
A Romanesque arched portal leads from a small vestibule on the tower ground floor to the nave. The nave has a needle cap barrel with plastered ribs on consoles. A pointed arched window with cloverleaf tracery opens to the attached south chapel .
A round arched choir arch forms the transition from the nave to the choir . A grave slab with a cross relief from the 18th century is walled into each of the bases of the arches . The right grave slab is labeled " Georg Kharrer ", the inscription on the left is illegible.
The one-bay choir with a five-eighth end is the same width as the nave. The vault has grooved ribs on consoles and coat of arms keystones. The keystone of the choir square shows the shield , on the keystone of the apse the coat of arms of the Princes of Dietrichstein is depicted with two vine knives , and floral paintings in the vaulted areas .
A late Gothic shoulder arch portal from the 15th century leads to the almost square sacristy with ribbed vaults and disc keystones. The oratory with baroque stucco mirrors is located above the sacristy .
On the north side of the choir square, opposite the entrance to the sacristy, there is a grave slab " Anna Rueber von Puxendorf with her child " from 1562. Diagonally above it is a rectangular window with ornamental stained glass.
Furnishing
The furnishings of the church include a baroque crucifix from the 18th century on the choir wall, pictures of the Stations of the Cross from 1873 and the people's altar from 1967. On the north wall of the choir square hangs a painting depicting the two church patrons Peter and Paul.
Stained glass window of the apse
There are three glass windows in the apse. The middle one is marked 1914 and shows the two church patrons Peter and Paul. The two flanking, side windows are marked 1902 and each have a medallion in the middle , which is surrounded by vine tendrils. The medallion in the left window shows St. Leonhard and that in the right window shows St. Joseph with the baby Jesus .
organ
The organ dates from 1864. Franz Reusch from Klosterneuburg created an instrument with eight registers . The prospectus is divided into three fields by posts. The three flat pipe fields are closed at the top with gold-plated, openwork tendrils, which are also attached to the side parts of the case.
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Bells
History of bells
The first entry in the parish chronicle, which provides information about the history of the bells, reports on a consecration of bells that Auxiliary Bishop Anton , titular bishop of Helenopolis in Bithynia, carried out on October 24, 1839 in Vienna. At that time he consecrated the "two small" bells for the church of Sonnberg, which were cast from the material of older bells, about which nothing has been handed down. A third bell is mentioned in this entry. Thus from October 1839 the presence of three bells is handed down:
- The existing bell with the inscription: "Franz Josef Settele cast me in Vienna in the year 1772" and a weight of 760 Austrian pounds (425 kg).
- A new one, which was dedicated to St. Florian and is the oldest bell in the church.
- A new one in honor of Maria Hilf , who had recently been cast in Vienna and weighed 131 pounds (73 kg).
In 1859 the big bell cracked and was cast over. In addition, a fourth bell was purchased, about which nothing is known.
On February 27, 1917, two bells and on July 30, the third bell were delivered for war purposes and melted down. Only the "Floriani bell" remained. Since compensation was paid for bell metal in the First World War and invested in a bell fund that was to be used to purchase new bells after the war, it was possible to install a second bell as early as 1920. It was consecrated on June 13, 1920 and weighed 514 kilograms. On May 16, 1935, a small death bell was consecrated.
The two most recently purchased bells had to be delivered on February 11, 1942 as a “ metal donation from the German people ”. This time there was no compensation and no bell fund, so it was not until 1961 that the church had three bells again. The two new bells were consecrated on May 14, 1961.
Bells since 1961
| No. | Surname | Nominal | Weight (kg) |
Diameter (cm) |
material | Timbre | Sound strength | Reverberation (sec.) |
Casting year | Caster |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Big bell | b 1-2 | 336.9 | 86 | Tin bronze | bright | normal | 105 | 1961 | Pfundner |
| 2 | Little bell | g 2-4 | 75.9 | 50 | Tin bronze | bright | normal | 55 | 1961 | Pfundner |
| 3 | Old bell | d 2-4 | 198 | 1818 | Florido |
The big bell bears the inscription "Reginae pacis - Parochia Sonnberg - 1961" (The Queen of Peace - the Parish Sonnberg - 1961) and the image of Our Lady , the inscription of the small bell reads "Patrono morientium - Parochia Sonnberg - 1961" (Dem Petron the dying - the Sonnberg parish - 1961) and it shows the picture of St. Joseph and the old bell is labeled "Gossen in Znaim 1818 - Johann Florido " and bears pictures of the saints Florian , Peter , Paul and John the Baptist .
literature
- Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Lower Austria north of the Danube. Edited by Evelyn Benesch, Bernd Euler-Rolle u. a. Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-7031-0652-2 , p. 1097.
- Diploma thesis " The Lords of Sonnberg and their environment - A ministerial family in the Weinviertel " by Josef Sziderits, accessed on September 22, 2014
Web links
- Parish Sonnberg on the website of the Archdiocese of Vienna accessed on September 21, 2014
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).
- ↑ Diploma thesis Josef Sziderits p. 25 accessed on September 22, 2014
- ^ History of Sonnberg on " Goellersbachpfarren.at ", accessed on September 21, 2014
Coordinates: 48 ° 32 ′ 27 ″ N , 16 ° 3 ′ 30 ″ E