Parish church St. Veit an der Gölsen
The parish church of St. Veit an der Gölsen is in the west of the village in the market town of St. Veit an der Gölsen in the Lilienfeld district in Lower Austria . On the Holy Veit ordained Roman Catholic parish church , the Göttweig incorporated part of the deanery Lilienfeld in the diocese of St. Poelten . The church is a listed building ( list entry ).
history
It was founded in the beginning of the 12th century as a richly endowed own church of the Styrian margraves. In 1122 a chapel dedicated to St. Vitus consecrated. In 1162 the church went to the Göttweig monastery with its elevation to parish church. In 1330 a vicarage was donated by the Hohenberger Vogtei owners. In 1473 the master builder Hans Kschässper was probably named for the nave. The late Gothic church tower was expanded in 1685/1687. 1763/1771 was a renovation. In 1830 the cemetery was closed. In 1891 the interior of the church was regotified. In 1968/1970 the interior and exterior were restored, most of the neo-Gothic furnishings were removed. In 1970 the medieval rectory was demolished and replaced by a new building.
architecture
The generously dimensioned late Gothic staggered church from the second half of the 15th century has an older Gothic choir around 1400 and a massive northwest tower of a former fortified church that can be seen from afar.
The nave has fronts plastered using trowel technology, the saddle roof is pulled down over the aisles, the saddle roof hips off to the east, the base is profiled in a late Gothic style. There are late Gothic side portals. The north side aisle with a polygonal end has high stepped buttresses and two-lane pointed arched windows with late Gothic tracery. Under the eaves there are smaller rectangular windows, probably from a former defensive floor. On the south aisle there are two-lane tracery windows and a pointed arched late Gothic profiled portal. To the east in the southern corner of the choir is a two-storey sacristy extension with a polygonal end. At the inner transition from the central nave to the southern aisle, the western front has a high buttress and a portal with shoulder arch opening in an ogival late Gothic profiled frame, above which is a walled-off round window.
The choir with my quintuple under a lower roof has stepped buttresses and two-lane tracery windows.
The square, powerful, defensive late Gothic tower has a massive wall thickness, which protrudes from the line of the north aisle and the western front, a polygonal stair tower is built on the western front. In 1685/1687 the tower was expanded and shows a corner squaring and chamfered loop windows. The bell zone above a profiled cornice has ogival sound windows, the onion helmet that was put on in 1831/1832 was covered with sheet metal in 1970.
The interior of the church is in the nave with a high three-aisled four-bay staggered hall, the north aisle is wider than the south aisle. The higher central nave shows a parallel net rib vault on massive polygonal pillars, the central nave is open to the side aisles with pointed arch arcades. The north nave with square yokes has cross rib vaults and a star rib vault in the polygon closure. The narrower south aisle has ribbed vaults and is divided into chapels with partition walls. The second yoke under a late Gothic net rib vault is walled up to form a vestibule and is opened to the central nave with a shoulder portal, the portal, like the north portal, is provided with two massive late Gothic wide oak doors with wrought iron strips.
The west gallery in the central nave and south aisle, the tower in the north aisle, in the central nave the gallery is vaulted with rich net ribs, at the crossings of the ribs there are painted shields with the coat of arms of Göttweig Abbey, under the southern gallery yoke is a star rib vault. The masonry parapet of the gallery shows tracery with looped ribs.
The triumphal arch is pointed and profiled. The one-bay, somewhat retracted choir with a five-eighth end and a ribbed vault with profiled ribs and round keystones, the vault rests on service consoles that were probably later retracted. In the south wall of the choir there is a two-part session niche with tracery gables and a round-arched piscina .
The late Gothic two-storey sacristy in the southern choir corner, formerly probably planned as a chapel, has a highly irregular late Gothic ridge vault, on the upper floor the vault is unfinished, the inlets and window tracery have been executed. In the north-west corner of the sacristy, a spiral staircase from the time the choir was built has been preserved; the spiral staircase is pushed into the choir wall and was previously protruding from the exterior. There is a late Gothic shoulder portal with a studded door leaf.
The room on the tower ground floor has a simple ribbed vault on consoles, the room is open to the nave with two pointed arcades with massive pillars.
In the church there is painted wall and vault polychromy, which was restored around 1970. The stained glass in the west in a round hatch under the gallery shows a bust of Christ from the 15th century with a portrait of the donor, on the side gallery wall a stained glass shows St. Vitus with the coat of arms of the Göttweiger Abbot Bartholomäus Schönleben 1534. Neo-Gothic glass windows in the nave and choir with the years 1897 and 1899 show figures of saints.
Furnishing
The baroque classical high altar around 1770/1780 has a column structure, sacrificial portals and a canopy extension, it shows the altarpiece Martyrdom of St. Vitus by Andreas Rudroff 1807, and bears statues of angels and the figures of Joseph and Jacob from the beginning of the 18th century. The north altar is a neo-Gothic baldachin altar from 1904, it bears a late Gothic figure of Mary with child from the second half of the 15th century. The south altar is an all soul altar with angel figures, the figures of Johannes and Magdalena. Above the south altar is a remarkable monumental late Gothic crucifix from around 1510/1520, which was ascribed to the school of Martin Kriechbaum.
On the parapet of the side gallery there is a Gothic wooden group of figures of Christ and the twelve apostles around 1370, on the gallery parapet there is a late-Gothic console figure of the Man of Sorrows from the first half of the 16th century.
The organ was built by Franz Capek (1896). Mathias Prininger names a bell in 1687.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria south of the Danube 2003 . St. Veit an der Gölsen, parish church St. Veit, with floor plan, remains of the former defensive wall. Pp. 2064-2066.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 2 ′ 34.9 " N , 15 ° 40 ′ 10.3" E