Parish Church of Spitz
The Roman Catholic parish church of Spitz is in the market town of Spitz in the Krems-Land district in Lower Austria . The parish church consecrated to St. Mauritius belongs to the Deanery Spitz in the diocese of St. Pölten . The church is a listed building .
history
The church consecrated to Saint Mauritius was originally also consecrated to Saint Godehard and is located in the eastern part of the village on Kirchenplatz. A chapel was mentioned in a document in 1163. It was incorporated into the St. Florian Monastery and until 1239 a branch of St. Michael in the Wachau . From 1222/25 onwards a parish church was named a pastor in a document. From 1238 to 1803 the parish church was incorporated into Niederaltaich Monastery . The late Gothic hall church under a high gable roof with the main portal in the presented west tower has a long choir bent out of its axis under a slightly higher gable roof. A medieval, formerly fortified enclosure wall, partly as a lining wall with stepped supporting pillars and partly with large, uncut stone blocks, has been preserved.
architecture
- External church building
The late Gothic church building consists of a nave and a retracted long choir with three-lane pointed arched windows with richly varied tracery and stepped buttresses. The four-storey west tower with a local stone structure has a steep hipped roof with a small roof house . The lower two tower floors are from the beginning of the 14th century with a presumably Romanesque wall core, in the bell floor there are two-lane tracery windows from the 16th century. A head sculpture is walled in over the beveled pointed arch portal of the tower. The main portal of the vestibule in the tower from the end of the 15th century is basket-arched in a pointed arches richly profiled with pear rods, in the tympanum there is a three-passport with crab decoration, the portal to the nave is a chamfered two-passportal. The tower ground floor is vaulted with ribs and a keystone with a profiled rosette and mask face from the beginning of the 14th century. On the north and south sides of the nave there is a late Gothic light house with a keel arch crown from around 1500. The retracted two-bay choir with five-eighth end is from the 1st quarter of the 16th century, the south-western buttress is marked with H. Wilhelm Paldauv 1694 , one buttress with 1547 , has a stone cross on the ridge at the transition to the nave, a crypt window, and a late Gothic niche with a ribbed vault between two buttresses. In the south of the tower is the donor and burial chapel of Wolfhard von der Au and Anna Murstetter , with a pent roof and pointed arched window, before 1395. Century. To the north of the west wall is a shallow two-storey extension with small Gothic windows, a staircase and a former healing chamber. On the south side of the nave is a gable-independent staircase with small rectangular windows from the 15th century that extends to the eaves. On the south wall of the nave there are remains of a crucifix fresco and next to it a donor couple from the 1st third of the 16th century. There are gravestones Sigmundt Ler. 1603 with wife 1612, Niclas Zalbinger 1532, 1422, around 1500, Wolfgang Kernstockh 1521 and Martha 1521, Michel Ern 1486, Margret around 1500.
- Inner church building
The richly structured three-aisled, four-bay late Gothic nave was built in several sections with the direction of construction from west to east from the 14th century to the 1st quarter of the 16th century. The cross-rib vaulted side aisles are open to the central nave with pointed arches. The central nave has a ribbed vault on octagonal pillars and relief keystones with the coats of arms of Spitz and Niederaltaich. The eastern three-aisled yoke is somewhat widened and not quite in the axis, it was built in the 15th century to 1517, is separated from the western nave and the choir by retracted arches and has a parallel net rib vault in the northern nave yoke, a star rib vault with a coat of arms in the central nave yoke with 1517; the southern nave yoke, which is shortened because of the sacristy adjoining it to the east, has a warped, star-ribbed vault with a painted coat of arms in relief with crossed raft hooks; The square sacristy has a ribbed vault from the 2nd half of the 15th century. The three-aisled gallery building before 1438 is vaulted with cross ribs in the side aisles, in the central nave with mesh ribs vaulted has a richly structured parapet with tracery in double quadrangular shapes and a two-axis organ foot each, in the middle part there are blind niches with apostles' figures, some with keel arches.
A retracted pointed arch triumphal arch with 1406 and 1506 forms the transition to the choir, which is also raised in the floor, with a sharp bend to the north. The choir is vaulted with net ribs with painted coats of arms Zollern , Kirchberger , with colored head sculptures at the intersections of the ribs, the pierced, partially crossed ribs rest on bundled services. The services are presented with statue canopies with crossed keel arches, as well as pinnacles and crab decorations, the consoles have lush branches and foliage. The session is in a richly profiled arched niche. Under the choir is a lower church with vaulted rooms.
A shoulder-arched south portal is walled up at the donor's chapel south of the tower. The two oblong yokes have cross ribbed vaults on consoles around the change from the 14th to the 15th century. There is a rectangular sacrament niche with an original wrought iron door. There are remains of a wall painting Crucifixion , St. Christophorus from the 2nd third of the 14th century on the previously unobstructed south side of the tower, now visible in the attic of the Stifterkapelle.
Remains of ornamental panes are preserved in the sacristy window (grisaille) from the 2nd half of the 14th century. The church's colored figural stained glass was created between 1910 and 1916.
Furnishing
The high altar from the end of the 17th century was transferred from Niederaltaich in 1718 and consecrated and renovated in 1724 and designated 1735. The aedicule structure has a split gable, the extension is framed with twisted columns and a segmented gable, with rich acanthus decor. The altarpiece of the Martyrdom of St. Mauritius is named Martin Johann Schmidt , 1799 . The figures of angels, putti, St. Michael are from the end of the 17th century, in the pillared pedestals are the figurines of Saints Ulrich and Urban from around 1730. The three-part tabernacle from the 1st quarter of the 18th century has niche figurines with holy bishops. On both sides of the pillars are sacrificial portals with foliage decoration from around 1700.
The left Marian altar from the 2nd quarter of the 18th century has a structure with inclined pillars and columns on pedestals, has fragments of entablature and a scroll framed excerpt. The altar figures are Saints Joseph and Zacharias, angels, putti, and in the central niche Maria Immaculata are from the 2nd half of the 16th century. The upper image of St. Joseph with child is from the 2nd quarter of the 18th century.
The right St. Nicholas altar from the 2nd quarter of the 18th century is a foundation of the raftsmen, the structure is as on the left. The altar figures are the saints Florian and Maria Magdalena, putti, in the excerpt the figure of St. Johannes Nepomuk, altarpiece St. Nikolaus above Spitz by the painter Ferdinand Mory from 1744. There are two further side altars on the nave pillars with the same structure from 1744, reredos with volute struts on the sides, excerpts flanked by currency. The left Sebastian altar has the figures of Saints Karl Borromeo and Rochus from the workshop of Matthias Schwanthaler, the altarpiece Apotheosis of St. Sebastian and the essay picture St. Thekla was painted by the painter Wolf Körner in the middle of the 18th century. The right altar of Catherine has the altar figures of Saints Maria Madgalena and Margareta, the altarpiece Mystical Marriage of St. In 1751 Katharina painted Anton Hamel, the top picture St. Religious is from the 2nd quarter of the 18th century. In the choir there are the console figures of Saints Benedict and Scholastica from the 4th quarter of the 17th century, the 4 evangelists from the 1st quarter of the 18th century, in the nave there are the console figures of Saints Sebastian and Joseph from the 1st quarter of the 18th century Century. There is the figure of the risen Christ as a gardener around 1500.
The wooden figures of Christ and the 12 apostles in the blind niches in the middle part of the gallery parapet from the 4th quarter of the 14th century are painted in color. In niches on the gallery pillars are two stone figures of Saints Benedikt and Godehard, from Niederaltaich around 1500.
In the chapel is a monumental crucifix from around 1520 with the figures of Saints Mary and John from the early 17th century. There are three images of fasting, the crucifixion by Martin Johann Schmidt from the end of the 18th century, the coronation of thorns and the flagellation from the 18th century. The 14 pictures of the Stations of the Cross were made around 1800. Behind the high altar is a wall paneling with structure in the manner of choir stalls with panel pictures with mainly Old Testament scenes from the 1st quarter of the 17th century. There are late Gothic iron plate doors with vine tendrils from the beginning of the 16th century.
The pulpit from the middle of the 18th century has a curved basket with volute struts, putti and evangelist symbols with the church fathers as a relief, the sound cover with volute top has the crowning figure of St. Mauritius. The choir stalls are from the middle of the 17th century, the communion bench was built around 1730. The pews and vestry cupboards are from the 3rd quarter of the 18th century. The holy water font with a bowl is from the beginning of the 16th century.
The organ case from the 2nd quarter of the 19th century is partly in neo-Gothic form and provided with gold-plated rocailles, today's organ was built by Friedrich Heftner in 1981/82 .
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria north of the Danube 1990 . Spitz, parish church of St. Mauritius (originally also Godehard), rectory north of the church, pages 1104 to 1107.
Web links
Coordinates: 48 ° 21 ′ 57.3 " N , 15 ° 24 ′ 52" E