Parish church of St. Peter in der Au
The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Peter in der Au is located in the market town of St. Peter in der Au in the district of Amstetten in Lower Austria . The parish church Peter and Paul belongs to the dean's office in Haag in the diocese of St. Pölten . The church is a listed building . The late Gothic fortress church is structurally with a walkway bridge to the castle of St. Peter in der Au , respectively.
history
The nearly square nave, a three-aisled hall, closes to the east, in an axis bent to the south, the retracted, polygonal choir from the 14th century. In the southern corner between the nave and the choir is the tower, in the northern corner there is a baroque extension. The church formed a structural unit with the castle in the Middle Ages and was built around 1200 as a private parish by Domvogt von Regensburg Otto V. von Lengenbach. The church is mentioned in a document in 1210, was under sovereign patronage until 1586, then went to the diocese of Passau and in 1785 became the parish church of the diocese of St. Pölten . Around 1770 the church was partially redesigned in Baroque style and restored in 1979.
architecture
- Church exterior
The church is plastered smooth. The late Gothic nave under a half-hipped roof, structurally in poor condition according to the document in 1452, has two-shell masonry on the outside with buttress arcades with two round-arched and four pointed-arched openings on the west and a solid wall on the inside with simple rectangular plug-in lattice windows built in around 1770. The double walls support a closed battlement under the eaves that is only open with key notches. Two late Gothic quatrefoil windows have been preserved to the west on the ground floor. To the north in the west is a baroque Secco painting Christ on the Mount of Olives from 1711 between two buttresses under a pent roof , next to it to the east again between two buttresses is a late Gothic double-barbed shoulder portal with an iron plate door. The portal porch in the south was not added until 1769.
The Gothic choir has stepped buttresses on the polygon. The neo-Gothic tracery windows were installed in the 3rd quarter of the 19th century. Above the buttresses and above a cornice and under a steep hipped roof there is a fortified floor with key notches. To the south in the corner of the choir stands a mighty five-storey tower with rectangular windows, slot gaps and walled-up pointed arch sound windows from the 2nd half of the 14th century. The baroque bell storey was added in 1770 with sound windows overlapping with tower clocks and a remarkably delicate lantern bulb hood. A skylight portal was built in the east of the tower in the first half of the 19th century. In the south of the tower facade, two storeys high, is the wall painting Christophorus around 1490, restored in 1993.
- Church interior
The three-aisled, four-bay nave built between 1490 and 1500 is vaulted and has six octagonal pillars in the middle. The vault with protruding ribs has rib stars with lozenge loops in the central nave, and parietal crosses with proto-Renaissance motifs in the side aisles. The late Gothic west gallery is vaulted with cross ribs and rests on three octagonal pillars, two of which are attached to the hall pillars, and closes off the nave with four beveled pointed arcades. The late baroque parapet of the gallery with bandwork and high oval openings was created around 1770. In the place of a former parapet positive there is a neo-Gothic addition. Benches concealed a well shaft under the gallery. Behind the late Gothic retracted chamfered Arch is a angulation to the south of the Gothic two-bay choir with five-eighth final of the 14th century. The choir has a ribbed vault without a yoke division on neo-Gothic console services with bud capitals from the 3rd quarter of the 19th century. In the north of the choir is the access door to the parallel rib vaulted sacristy from the 2nd half of the 15th century, above are two framed oratorio windows from the beginning of the 20th century.
In the choir in 1874 the Tyrolean glass painting establishment created the glass painting of the neo-Gothic windows with the Hll. Peter and Paul, Herz Jesu and Herz Mariae with canopies. In 1914, a mosaic carpet with secessionist floral motifs was laid in the polygon around the high altar .
Furnishing
The remarkable secessionist high altar from 1912 was designed by the architect Karl Holey and the sculptor Heinrich Zita, who also carried out the sculptural work. The side altars were created in 1928 according to the plans of the architect Hans Petermair and show altar leaves by Martin Johann Schmidt around 1787, Maria Immaculata on the left , key handover to Petrus on the right . The people's altar based on a design by Johann Kräftner senior was created in 1968. The secessionist pulpit was created in 1914 by the sculptor Ludwig Linzinger . The organ was built by the Mauracher brothers in 1927 . The console statues were created by the sculptor Thomas Demetz from 1877 to 1878. Friedrich Staudinger painted the canvases of the Way of the Cross in 1868. The offering box made from a late Gothic column fragment is from the 15th century. A wash basin from the construction period has been preserved in the sacristy.
Churchyard
The churchyard is largely enclosed with originally higher defensive walls and lining walls from the 2nd half of the 15th century. Two key notches and one slot notch have been preserved. The two-storey sacristan's house with a gable roof in the south, in the core from the 15th century, is part of the enclosure of the courtyard. There is a grave tablet for Maria Clara Staudin from the 18th century. On the raised walling in the west with a baroque arched portal and a wrought iron grille from 1954, a war memorial with a stone relief of St. George by the sculptor Kunibert Zinner was placed outside the forecourt .
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria south of the Danube 2003 . St. Peter in der Au, St. Peter in der Au-Markt, Parish Church Hll. Petrus and Paulus, pp. 1956–1959.
Web links
- History about the parish church St. Peter and Paul with many photos from inside and outside.
Coordinates: 48 ° 2 ′ 43.1 ″ N , 14 ° 37 ′ 28.8 ″ E