Parish Church St. Oswald (Lower Austria)
The parish church of St. Oswald stands on a hill in the Kirchweiler St. Oswald in the municipality of St. Oswald in the Melk district in Lower Austria . The Roman Catholic parish church consecrated to St. Oswald belongs to the deanery Maria Taferl in the diocese of St. Pölten . The church and the cemetery are under monument protection ( list entry ).
history
A parish was mentioned in a document in 1160. In 1619 a document was recorded that the church was looted by imperial horsemen .
The Romanesque fortified tower church with a Gothic choir was converted to Baroque style. The church suffered fire damage in 1613, 1732 and 1872. In 1973 the church was restored outside and in 1977 inside.
architecture
The church on the southern outskirts with a sloping terrain to the west, south and east had a defensive church function and borders the local square in the west and north, the rectory is in the east, the cemetery is in the south.
- Church exterior
The undivided - essentially Romanesque - nave under a gable roof has arched windows, in the north-west corner of the tower there is a mighty supporting pillar. The side portals have associated vestibules, the south vestibule is from the 17th century, the north vestibule from the 19th century.
The slightly indented choir stands on a surrounding stone plinth from the end of the 15th century, the buttresses on the choir have water hammer and partly unplastered brickwork and some small base reliefs with rosette and wheels, at the end the choir has two-lane pointed arched windows with fish-bubble tracery, the eastern pointed arched window walled up. In the south of the choir is the late Gothic sacristy with corner blocks with an anteroom extension to the east that was modified in 1858. Between the sacristy and the southern porch there is an intermediate wing of a former Holy Sepulcher chapel as today's confessional chamber.
The presented mighty west tower is a five-storey Romanesque square building block with narrow slit windows, the recessed upper storey, which was added in 1739, has round-arched sound windows and clock gable and has a pyramid roof from 1873. On the north side of the tower is a niche with the figure of St. Oswald by the sculptor Karl Gollner 1975.
- Church interior
The nave is a three-bay hall space under a groin vault on stepped wall pillars with cover plates from the first quarter of the 17th century. The west gallery is vaulted under the groin and has a swinging parapet with an organ base from the 18th century. Under the gallery there is a narrow, deep passage to the tower ground floor.
The pointed triumphal arch is slightly drawn in. The two-bay choir with a five-eighth end is the same height as the nave and has a ribbed vault on high round consoles. The shoulder arched sacristy portal has a modified ridge vault with stitch caps. A late Gothic sacrament niche is covered by the choir stalls.
The figural stained glass created by the Franz Götzer company in 1919 shows the Annunciation in the choir, the handing over of the keys to Peter, the four evangelists and in the nave the birth of Christ, the Last Supper, Moses, Abraham and angels.
Furnishing
The high altar from 1623 with an early Baroque wall structure with baroque sacrificial portals has an altarpiece flanked by columns and a small attachment above the projecting entablature in the blown gable. The high altar, renovated in 1905, shows the image of St. Oswald in front of the cross and in the upper image of the Assumption of Mary, both from the second half of the 18th century. The high altar bears the statues Peter and Paul around 1620 in shell niches, above the sacrificial passages the figures of two bishops around 1700 and simultaneous figures of Oswald and Leopold. The cafeteria is the tombstone with a pole cross of Friedrich on the Lehenhof ancestor of the Isper family from the second half of the 14th century.
The organ and the case with two angels making music were built by Anton Pfliegler in 1781, the organ was given a new work by Matthäus Mauracher in 1922 .
There are two gravestones with rich ornamental frames and representational representations of chalices, angels and skulls for Pastor Bartholomäus Marini and Pastor Simon Antonius Marini 1773, the latter documented by the sculptor Franz Wittmann.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria north of the Danube 1990 . St. Oswald, parish of St. Oswald, parish church of St. Oswald, with floor plan, rectory. Pp. 1022-1023.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 16 ′ 4.9 " N , 15 ° 2 ′ 23.2" E