Strengberg parish church
The parish church Strengberg is located in the center of the market town Strengberg in the district of Amstetten in Lower Austria . The Roman Catholic parish church , consecrated on the feast of the Assumption of Mary , belongs to the Amstetten deanery of the diocese of St. Pölten . The church is a listed building ( list entry ).
history
In a document in 1031 the founding of a parish or consecration by the Tegernsee Monastery was mentioned , the church was incorporated until the monastery was dissolved in 1803. Originally there was a double patronage of the Assumption and St. Quirinus from Tegernsee .
After a fire in 1507, the nave was rebuilt. In 1629 and 1638/1639 the tower was restored after a collapse or fire. The church was baroque from the second half of the 17th century. In 1952 it was renovated and redesigned by Josef Friedl .
architecture
The late Gothic hall church with a choir has a west tower and a roof turret and younger extensions.
The outside of the church has a roof with beaver tail covering , the façades with irregularly changing structure show a trickle plaster with ribs and ribbons and stone elements.
The late Gothic nave under a steep gable roof has three wide tracery windows with fish bubbles on the south side, between the four south facing buttresses there are three baroque sheet metal arcade niches with grave monuments and in the central axis a late Gothic round arched richly profiled main portal, on the north side the nave has an extension from 1869 with two-zone Pointed arch windows and a porch porch.
The late Gothic choir from 1507 is higher than the nave and has a roof turret from the second half of the 17th century to the west.
The five-storey west tower, which is essentially medieval, has a bell-shaped storey with bifors, cornices, little windows, key notches, and it has a wedge roof.
The neo-baroque vault painting in the choir was painted by Franz Pitza in 1952, in the west the history of the founding of the Strengberg parish and the visit of Pope Pius VI. in Strengberg, in the east Christian virtues. The ornamental glass painting in the nave is from 1869.
Furnishing
The high altar from 1781 has a spatial structure with a prospect-like apsidal cladding with integrated confessionals and the inclusion of the polygon as an apse exposure, the altar closes with an arched curtain along the vault, it also has pairs of steled pillars. The high altar shows the altar sheet of the Assumption by Andreas Streicher in 1919 based on the original by Martin Johann Schmidt that was burned .
The font is from the 12th century. The holy water font was built around 1510/1520.
Franz Meinl built the organ in a case around 1783 in 1837. Johann Max Hagenauer names a bell in 1763. Franz Serafin Hollederer names a bell in 1855.
Funerary monuments
- In the choir: priest tombs Ignat Hainzl 1783, Johann Evang. Stauder 1770, Franz Paumann 1772.
- In the nave: coat of arms gravestones of the postmaster family Öttl with Franziscus Antonius 1723, Johann Qurin 1762, Maria Anna 1770. Priest gravestone Antonius Paur 1731.
literature
- Strengberg, parish church Mariae Himmelfahrt, with floor plan, cemetery. In: The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria south of the Danube 2003 . Pp. 2300-2303.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 34 " N , 14 ° 39 ′ 10" E