Parish church of St. Wolfgang near Weitra
The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Wolfgang bei Weitra is located in the village of St. Wolfgang bei Weitra in the municipality of Weitra in Lower Austria . The parish church of St. Wolfgang, the patronage church of Zwettl Abbey, belongs to the Gmünd deanery in the diocese of St. Pölten . The church is a listed building .
history
In the beginning of the 15th century a church was donated by Thomas Schaller von Purkendorf, lord of the castle of Weitra, and his brother Johannes. The choir was consecrated on November 6, 1407 . In 1408, Bishop Georg von Hohenlohe from the Diocese of Passau confirmed the church as a branch church of the parish church Großschönau . The pilgrimage church received a pilgrimage house in 1447 , donated by the Brotherhood of the Assumption of Mary . Christoph von Prag, Protestant lord of Engelstein Castle, closed the church around 1570/1580, had parts of the furnishings removed and in 1583 appointed a Protestant preacher . In 1617 the church became Catholic again, the pilgrimage was not newly established. The church was raised to a parish church with Abbot Rainer Kollmann in 1765 and incorporated into Zwettl Abbey . There was a fire in 1877. In 1975 a monthly pilgrimage day was set up again. 1979 was a restoration.
architecture
The church stands dominantly on a step in the east above the place. In the north of the church there is a cemetery. The broad, three - aisled late Gothic hall church with a long choir stands on a high, profiled plinth to compensate for the terrain. The exterior shows itself with old plaster. The nave was closed in a polygonal shape in the side aisles and has pointed arch portals with multiple profiles in the west and south, with the southern portal framed by a shoulder arch gate. The simple west facade has three round tracery windows . The ridge turret with a pointed gable helmet was built after the fire of 1877. The three-bay choir with a five -eighth end - drawn in to the width of the central nave - has rectangular niches in the southern buttresses, some with fluted pointed arch frames. The two-storey sacristy attached to the north of the choir is from the construction period. The buttresses of the church are divided into three parts by a surrounding coffee cornice and cornice pieces. The windows of the church are tracery windows with two and three lanes.
The three - aisled, four - bay hall construction of the nave has naves of the same width, with the eastern bays being raised in three steps in front of the choir, and the side aisles to the east close with an incomplete five-aisle closure and lead to the central nave and the retracted triumphal arch. The nave has ribbed vaults with round keystones over eight-sided pillars, which pierce the koff cornice. The vault rests in the side aisles on polygonal wall templates or on circular services. The late Gothic organ loft is vaulted with cross ribs and, after a change of plan, has two parapet oriels on independent octagonal supports with the indication 1764 LF. The triumphal arch is as high as the choir. The choir has a ribbed vault with heraldic keystones over round services with coil capitals that extend to the coffin cornice . The gray coloring of the architectural structure has been renewed. In the choir is a rectangular sacraments niche in a profiled pointed arch frame with a wrought iron door from the 15th century and a flat arched closed and profiled seating niche . On the north side of the choir is a portal to the two-storey, two-bay, cross-rib vaulted sacristy and the above oratory. The church has a granite slab floor, partly covered with an old screed in the nave.
The wall painting in the choir, uncovered in 1979, shows the adoration of the kings in a marbled frame from the second third of the 16th century on the north side and shows 14 scenes from the life of St. Wolfgang, and two coats of arms of the donors, around 1430, and to the side the sacrament niche angel and St. Wolfgang sitting in a painted tabernacle from the 15th century. To the south, the wall painting shows Herod's farewell to the kings, their arrival before Mary and Jesus, around 1430, and St. Wolfgang. The stained glass in the choir was moved to Zwettl Abbey and remains are still in the tracery.
Furnishing
The high altar built in 1692/1694 - filling the end of the choir - by the carpenter Balthasar Threyer is a three-axis broken, richly acanthus-covered, unmounted wooden structure and bears late Gothic carved figures of the saints Erasmus, Wolfgang and Nicholas around 1490. The excerpt shows the baroque image of the Coronation of the Virgin flanked by the carved figures of Maria and Johannes Evangelist around 1490 in a baroque revision and an image of Mary with child around 1770/1780. The two side altars in Rococo style with angel figures from 1767 show the altarpiece of the Crucified from the 17th century on the left and the altarpiece Death of St. Josef by the painter Martin Johann Schmidt (1766). On the north wall is the high altar from 1760/1770 with the altarpiece Glorie des St. Nikolaus von Martin Johann Schmidt (1768) and bears the figures Florian and Donatus, an attachment picture and reliquary tablets. The Bernhard altar in the sacristy, a work by Balthasar Threyer (1692), shows the altarpiece of St. Bernhard kissing the Man of Sorrows. The classical pulpit is from 1785.
A crucifix was made around 1500. The eight-sided baptismal font made of red marble shows a coat of arms above the chapter on a twisting shaft and the year 1514. The granite holy water stoup and the chamfered offering are Gothic.
The positive organ with the figure Salvator was created by Ignaz Gatto the Elder (1765).
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria north of the Danube 1990 . St. Wolfgang, Parish Church of St. Wolfgang, Pfarrhof, pp. 1024-1026.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f Entry on St. Wolfgang, community Weitra in the database Memory of the State of the History of the State of Lower Austria ( Museum Niederösterreich )
Coordinates: 48 ° 40 '17.3 " N , 14 ° 52' 54.3" E