Parish church Steinakirchen am Forst
The parish church Steinakirchen am Forst is in the village Steinakirchen am Forst in the market town of Steinakirchen am Forst in Lower Austria . The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Michael belongs to the deanery of Ybbs in the diocese of St. Pölten . The church is a listed building .
location
The church stands on a partially filled height above the market square on the church square.
history
A church is believed to have existed even before the Mondsee Abbey came into power in 833. The place is owned by Regensburg, signed with a document from 976, 979 from Emperor Otto II . Around 1100 the parish is accepted and in 1107 incorporated into Mondsee. 1370 Foundation of a chapel, then reconstruction, and from the end of the 15th century to the early 16th century new building according to uniform late-Gothic plans. From 1874 to 1875 new construction of the tower, from 1878 to 1879 widening of the gallery. From 1905 to 1912 a neo-Gothic entrance hall was added. From 1955 to 1956 the baroque furnishings removed in 1905 are restored. In 2015 the outside of the parish church was renovated.
church
Due to the hillside location, the church has an eight meter high substructure and appears closed on the outside, as the forces are diverted inside through the delicate fields of a ribbed vault. The all-round gallery with slim pillars standing close to the outer wall makes the church interior unique. As the first church in the German-speaking area, construction began in 1421, with a statically effective, fully encircling gallery, the Amberg Martinskirche is accepted, which was thus also a model for later churches in Saxony.
organ
The organ was damaged in a fire in 1866 . First they made do with a harmonium , then the organ was makeshift repaired. In 1877/78 a new organ was commissioned from the organ builder Josef Breinbauer in Ottensheim . During transport, the organ fell into the Danube near Linz , so it had to be repaired again and again. On the occasion of the 950th anniversary of the parish in 1929, a new organ with around 1450 pipes was installed in the old case by the Orgelbau Gebrüder Mauracher company .
literature
- Dehio Lower Austria south of the Danube 2003 , Steinakirchen am Forst, parish church hl. Michael, Pfarrhof, pages 2276 to 2278
- Friedrich Schragl : Steinakirchen am Forst. History of the parish and its places . Steinakirchen am Forst 1975.
Web links
- Parish church Steinakirchen / Forst on the website of the diocese of St. Pölten
- Website of the parish Steinakirchen am Forst
Individual evidence
- ↑ New shine for the church . In: NÖN edition Erlauftal . No. 18/2015 , April 28, 2015.
- ↑ Steinakirchen parish ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Page on the Steinakirchen parish church, accessed on September 2, 2009
- ↑ Parish St. Martin Amberg ( Memento of the original from March 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Building history, accessed on September 13, 2009
- ^ Friedrich Schragl: History of the parish and its places ; Pp. 76 and 83
Coordinates: 48 ° 4 ′ 4.1 ″ N , 15 ° 2 ′ 54.7 ″ E