Stillfried Parish Church
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The Roman Catholic parish church Stillfried ( patronage : St. Georg ) in the Lower Austrian market town of Angern an der March is a former fortified church with a medieval core. The parish Stillfried belongs to the deanery Gänserndorf in the vicariate Unter dem Manhartsberg of the Archdiocese of Vienna . The church is a listed building ( list entry ).
history
The Stillfried parish has existed since around 1045. From 1325 to 1788 it was incorporated into the Mauerbach Charterhouse . The church was first mentioned in a document in 1241.
architecture
The former fortified church, visible from afar, is located high up in the area of an early medieval fortification and is surrounded by a spacious cemetery with a circular wall.
- Exterior
The core of the parish church is medieval . The compact west tower presented comes from the second half of the 13th century, the nave , the choir and a chapel in the south from the first half of the 14th century. In 1669/1670 the tower was converted to Baroque style , with the addition of a sound storey with arched windows and a pyramid helmet.
A slightly recessed, polygonal choir with baroque arched windows adjoins the elongated nave with high, baroque lunette windows. To the south are the sacristy and chapel, followed by baroque extensions at ground level with a vestibule and low buttresses . The additions to the north of the nave and in the choir area are more recent.
The church is surrounded by a well-fortified curtain wall with loopholes . This comes from the 16./17. Century and is opened to the south by a portal.
- Interior
The four-bay nave bears barrel vaults over a richly cranked cornice with stitch caps over belt arches on sturdy pillars. The three-part, curved organ gallery has a wooden parapet and bandwork decor . It was made in the first half of the 18th century. The triumphal arch is rounded. The somewhat narrower, slightly raised, one-bay choir with a five-eighth end has a barrel vault with stitch caps and a circumferential profiled cornice. In the south is the sacristy with a ribbed vault and rosette keystone as well as a two-part, Gothic session niche from the 14th century.
Adjacent to the choir is a Marienkapelle, the former manor's chapel, which originally formed a two-bay room with the sacristy to the west, which is now divided by a wall. Above the Gothic cross ribs on consoles, the chapel has heavy foliage stucco from the end of the 17th century and in the vault spandrels fresco medallions with scenes from the life of the Virgin, on which the temple passage of Mary, a representation in the temple as well as the Annunciation and the Wedding, framed with putti heads , are depicted . The fields were enriched with bandwork in the first quarter of the 18th century. In addition to rich stucco decoration with putti, a stuccoed heraldic cartouche from the end of the 17th century, held by putti, can be seen towards the nave. A rococo tombstone on the wall is marked “1775”; opposite a tombstone with crucifixion relief with "1717".
The first floor of the tower has a heavy cross-band vault on consoles from the second half of the 13th century and a profiled, Gothic south portal. In the vestibule there is a priest's tombstone marked “1304”, a coat of arms tombstone marked “1627” and building inscriptions from 1669.
Facility
The high altar from the third quarter of the 18th century is a low columned altar with an altarpiece of St. Martin , side figures of the apostles Peter and Paul , the eye of God in the excerpt and a tabernacle flanked by adoring angels . The baroque side altar in the Marienkapelle is a rich columnar altar from the first quarter of the 18th century. In a central shell niche he has a figure of the Sacred Heart from the 19th century, side figures of Sts. Josef and Joachim and, in the extract, a dove of the Holy Spirit crowned by a canopy and framed by putti.
The baroque pulpit dates from the end of the 17th century. Your basket rests on Tuscan columns . In picture fields between the columns are oil paintings of the Holy Family and St. To see Martin and Sebastian.
The church also has baroque figures of St. Barbara, Katharina, Rochus and Sebastian from the first half of the 18th century. In front of the neo-baroque Holy Sepulcher altar from the end of the 19th century is a Baroque image of the Madonna in the protective cloak from the 17th century. Further furnishings include pictures of the Stations of the Cross from the first half of the 19th century, a Romanesque font from the end of the 13th century with a baroque figure of the Redeemer from the 18th century, an oil painting from the first half of the 19th century with depictions of the Entombment of Christ (copy after Titian ), baroque pews and a baroque vestry cupboard from the 18th century.
The organ of the church was built in 1909 by Franz Capek .
literature
- DEHIO Lower Austria north of the Danube . Berger, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-85028-395-3 , pp. 1126f.
Web links
- Entry on Stillfried parish church in the Austria Forum (chapter sacred buildings)
- Stillfried fortified church on Burgenkunde.at
Coordinates: 48 ° 24 ′ 49.9 ″ N , 16 ° 50 ′ 16.5 ″ E