Straning Parish Church
The parish church Maria Himmelfahrt is a west -facing Roman Catholic church with a west tower in Straning, a cadastral parish of the market town of Straning-Grafenberg in the Horn district in Lower Austria .
It belongs to the dean's office Sitzendorf in the vicariate Unter dem Manhartsberg and is under monument protection according to the ordinance of the Federal Monuments Office ( list entry ). The church stands a little higher in the center of the village.
history
Parish history
A written message from 1265 shows that Straning is a branch church of the mother parish Eggenburg - Gars . The first documentary mention as vicariate comes from the year 1267. In 1277 a parish was mentioned, which was separated from the mother parish Eggenburg-Gars in 1564.
In 1739 Ludwig Tauchner took over the parish and asked the lords of the sovereign patronage to rebuild the church because the previous church had become too small.
Pastor of Straning and their importance for the parish
| Surname | Effective time | annotation |
|---|---|---|
| Artolph | around 1277 | first pastor mentioned by name |
| Ludwig Tauchner | 1739-1766 | Builder of today's parish church |
| Johann Merluzzi | 1828-1853 | Enlargement of the rectory |
| Dean Johann Wenk | 1853-1881 | Church renovation in 1874 |
| Franz Richter | 1891-1910 | Church renovation inside and outside 1898/99 |
| Canon Josef Ettl | 1938-1952 | Exterior church renovation, purchase of 2 new bells after the Second World War |
| Karl Ploberger | 1953-1958 | Roofing of the church tower with copper sheeting in autumn 1954 |
| Bruno Taubert | 1958-1965 | Manufacture of staircases and arcades |
| Rudolf Brock | 1966-1986 | Installation of the church bench heating and electrification of the tower clock, exterior church renovation between 1982 and 1984 |
| Robert Jaros | 1986-1996 | Renewal of the rectory roof, renovation of the parish hall, redesign of the parish office in 1993, installation of an electric song display in the church in 1994 |
| Jan Jurus | 1996-2006 | Renewal of the rectory facade, renewal of the pavement in front of the church, complete interior renovation of the church between 2003 and 2005 |
| Eugeniusz Warzocha | since 2006 | Renewal of the parish café in 2007, roof repair of the outbuildings in 2007, new loudspeaker system in the church in 2008, renovation of the sacristy in 2009, renewal of the church steps and construction of an access ramp in 2010, opening of a chapel in the church in 2011, repair of the clock tower and the church roof in 2012, complete organ renovation in 2012 / 13 |
Building history
There are no precise sources about the previous building. During the Thirty Years War , the church was ravaged by Bohemian troops in 1621 . The new construction of today's church from Zogelsdorfer Stein according to plans by Leopold Wißgrill was probably started in 1741 or 1742 and was finished by 1752. The church building was financed both from church assets and donations as well as from the private fortune of Ludwig Tauchner, which he owned as the son of a wealthy miller from Grafenberg . The abbot of Altenburg Abbey , Placidus Much , who came from Straning and was acquainted with Tauchner, provided the client with his artists. The consecration of the "Parish Church in honor of the Assumption of Mary" took place on June 18, 1752 by Bishop Joseph Dominikus von Lamberg from Passau .
In 1781, a fire caused by lightning destroyed the tower, which was not subsequently restored to its original height.
Church renovations took place in the years 1874, 1898/99 (inside and outside), in the first half of the 20th century (outside), between 1982 and 1984 (outside) and between 2003 and 2005 (inside). In the autumn of 1954 the church tower was covered with sheet copper.
Building description
Outside
An extended transverse house-like middle section with a centralizing tendency characterizes the rectangular hall building. The building fronts with rounded corners are structured by pilaster strips and pilasters . The two-storey window division with cartouche-shaped round-arched frames are separated by a cordon frieze.
The three-axis east facade with tall, coupled giant pilasters is preceded by a flight of stairs with a side balustrade . The giant pilasters are closed off by Corinthian capitals . The two-storey facade is drawn across the corner into the eastern nave area. In the two side axes of the facade there are niches with figures of Saints Peter and Paul above cartouche windows with wrought iron bars .
Above the portal, which is located in a flat arched niche and marked "1742" in the central axis, is a high central window that extends upwards into the three-part entablature . Above the high parapet there is a front-facing attachment flanked by gable beds with a walled oculus and triangular gable, which is divided by pilasters and crowned by a cross.
The lower choir is surrounded by sacristy extensions with oratorios and the west tower protruding at the level of the cross arms . The two-storey sacristy extensions and the four-storey tower are divided by cornices . The sound floor of the tower has corner pilasters, flat arched sound windows , clock gable and an onion helmet with a lantern and a crowning cross.
To the left of the church is the rococo tomb of the pastor and builder Ludwig Tauchner from 1766.
Inside
The square vaulted cross section centralizes the interior. In the longitudinal axes barrel vaulted yokes lead over to the choir and the narrow vestibule. The segmental arched choir and the gallery yoke are drawn in and square vaulted. There are small vestibules on both sides of the Emporenjoch. A spiral staircase in the southern porch provides access to the gallery.
Above pilasters on plinths there is a circumferential, projecting cranked entablature, the vaults are divided by belts. On the choir, on the Mitteljoch and on the Emporenjoch there are sloping, pillar-like and curved corner formations with pilasters.
There are three arched windows above the entablature and cartridge windows in the cross section. The gallery rises above low pillars with square vaults and has a coffered parapet and a Rococo grille.
A round arched triumphal arch forms the transition to the choir with two side portals to the sacristy extensions and arched windows to the oratorios . Spiral stairs lead from the sacristies to the oratorios. The vaults and window reveals are provided with delicate stucco , in the window reveals there are figures of angels. Cross-oval mirrors are decorated with gold-plated bandwork and putti heads . A dove of the Holy Spirit flanked by angels is depicted in the dome of the choir . In 2011, the small chapel of “ Divine Mercy ” was set up in the southern annex to the sacristy .
Furnishing
The high altar, which is integrated into the architecture of the choir, consists of a column structure in front of pilasters. The large-format altarpiece is marked “ Johann Georg Schmidt 1704 ” and represents “Assumption of Mary”. It was removed in 2004 and completely restored in the Alicja Dabrowska KG workshop in Sitzenberg . The side figures of St. Joachim and St. Anna date from the middle of the 18th century. Angels adoring the tabernacle are on the free-standing altar table .
The columns carry a blasted segmented arched gable with a cartouche in which a verse from the Vulgate is quoted. " VENI DE LIBANO VENI CORONABERIS CANT: C: IV: V: VIII ". The inscription on the cartouche leads with the request VENI CORONABERIS from the altarpiece to the subject of the relief that closes the altar structure at the top: Angels hold an oversized golden crown and indicate the imminent coronation of Mary, which will take place in the presence of the Holy Trinity , which has taken place on cloud banks below the crown.
The rococo dining rack made of Zogelsdorf sandstone is marked with " 1741 ".
The side altars with altarpieces " Christ on the Cross " and " Death of St. Joseph " are constructed in a similar way to the high altar. They are each flanked by a pair of statues of the saints “ Aloysius and Leonhard ” and “ Rochus and Sebastian ”.
Former side altar pictures in a cartouche frame from the second quarter of the 18th century are attached to the triumphal arches, depicting St. John Nepomuk and poor souls .
On the basket of the rococo pulpit are reliefs “ Jesus in the Temple ”, “ Sermon on the Mount ” and “ Jesus in Simon's house ”. The Stations of the Cross and the pews date from the 19th century.
In the nave there are angels with the Christ monogram IHS . Above and on the gallery are symbols of the theological virtues of faith, hope and love . Above the gallery there is also King David with angels playing music and in the middle the Adoration of the Shepherds flanked by the four church fathers . A statue of Our Lady from the middle of the 17th century completes the interior of the church.
In the sacristy there are built-in sacristy cabinets from the second half of the 18th century and a picture of St. John Nepomuk from the same period.
organ
For the previous building there is evidence of an organ in 1734, which was probably taken over. After the instrument was lost in the 19th century, the Viennese organ builder Josef Seyberth built a new organ in 1845. Repairs were made in 1862, 1887, 1925, 1930 and 1960. In the main factory, Franz Capek replaced a register in 1899 and changed the mixture , while a string part was replaced in the Rückpositiv in 1940 and 1986. In 1941 an electric fan was installed. The company Wolfgang Bodem from Leopoldsdorf carried out a comprehensive restoration in 2012/13 for 115,000 euros. Its aim was not to reconstruct the Seyberth organ from 1845, but to repair the existing condition. The restored instrument was consecrated on May 11, 2013 by Abbot Burkhard Ellegast .
The organ has 19 registers, divided into two manuals and a pedal. The main pipe inventory goes back to Seyberth. The works are distributed over three separate cases, which are designed in the style of classicism . To the left of the window the main work is set up in a cuboid with a large round-arched pipe field, to the right the pedal work in a symmetrical manner. The Rückpositiv finds its place as a parapet in the gallery. Its prospectus is characterized by three rectangular flat fields that are structured by pilasters. The broad central field is flanked on the outside by two towering towers. All pipe fields are decorated at the top with gilded acanthus veils and end with profiled cornice wreaths, which are crowned by attachments. Today's disposition is:
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Bells
All that is known about the ringing before the church fire in 1781 is that in 1621 some bells were requisitioned by Bohemian troops and that when the church burned down, all the bells fell from the tower and melted. After the tower was restored, four new bells were purchased, of which the large one from the Viennese bell caster Johann Caspar Hofbauer from 1783 has been preserved and is used as a death bell. Their inscription refers to the local fire at that time.
On May 3, 1916, three bells had to be delivered as metal donations for war material. After the end of the First World War , the community bought two new bells for a purchase price of 813,000 crowns . They were cast in 1921 by the Berndorfer bell foundry (Lower Austria) and weighed 375 and 175 kilograms. In 1931 two smaller bells were purchased from von Graßmayr in Innsbruck. The tones of the five-note bells were g¹, b¹, d², f sharp², a², the masses 670, 375, 175, 85, 55 kg and the diameters 1.04, 0.85, 0.66, 0.50 and 0.42 m . On April 21, 1942, the four newer bells were also used for armament purposes, only the old death bell remained.
In 1952, the Pfundner bell foundry produced two new bells for 29,421 Schilling , which were consecrated and wound on the Assumption of Mary . They were rung by hand until the bells were electrified in 1966. The triple chime is made of tin bronze and sounds on the minor triad.
| No. | Casting year | Foundry, casting location | Diameter (mm) | Mass (kg) | Chime |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1783 | Johann Caspar Hofbauer the Elder, Vienna | 1,040 | 670 | g 1 |
| 2 | 1952 | Josef Pfunder , Vienna | 840 | 347.9 | b 1 |
| 3 | 1952 | Josef Pfunder, Vienna | 660 | 172.4 | d 2 |
See also
literature
- Dehio Lower Austria north of the Danube 1990 , Straning, Parish Church Mariae Himmelfahrt, p. 1143/1144.
- “700 years of parish pastoral care in Straning 1277–1977 (including the daughter churches that were formerly parochial: Limberg, Niederschleinz) 225 years since the inauguration of the parish church Maria Himmelfahrt zu Straning. June 18, 1752-1977 ”, commemorative publication published by the Straning parish in June 1977.
- Hiltigund Schreiber : “Restoration of the high altar painting Maria Himmelfahrt by Georg Schmidt in the parish church of Straning”. In: “Preservation of monuments in Lower Austria. Volume 34 ", ed. from the Office of the Lower Austrian State Government - Department of Culture and Science, St. Pölten 2005.
Web links
- Parish Straning on the website of the Archdiocese of Vienna , accessed on September 9, 2013.
- Parish Straning on the website of the market town of Straning-Grafenberg
Remarks
- ↑ Is referred to in the Dehio with "1737 to 1752" . However, the client was only in Straning from 1739
- ↑ The inscription reads in German: " Come from Lebanon, come, you will be crowned (Hld 4,8) ".
Individual evidence
- ↑ Historical supplements to the St. Pöltner Diözesanblatt, B VIII, p. 453.
- ↑ Dehio p. 1143.
- ↑ a b Parish Straning on the website of the market town of Straning-Grafenberg
- ↑ Festschrift of the parish of Straning, pp. 18–20.
- ↑ a b c Festschrift of the parish of Straning, p. 27.
- ↑ Festschrift of the parish of Straning, p. 23
- ^ Website of Alicja Dabrowska KG accessed on May 12, 2013
- ↑ The consecration of the organ on May 11, 2013 on the website of the market town of Straning-Grafenberg (PDF; 1.8 MB) accessed on May 13, 2013
Coordinates: 48 ° 36 '38 " N , 15 ° 51' 49" E