Parish church Ternberg
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The Roman Catholic parish church of Ternberg is located in the center of the municipality of Ternberg in the Steyr-Land district in Upper Austria . It is consecrated to Saints Peter and Paul and, together with the parishes of Laussa , Losenstein and Reichraming, forms the Ternberg Pastoral Care Association in the Weyer dean's office in the Linz diocese . The church building is a listed building .
location
The east-facing church building is located in the center of Ternberg and can be reached directly from the west via the Enns bridge . The church square is bordered on the north and south by a paved street with residential and commercial buildings and bordered in the east by the main street running in north-south direction.
history
The Ternberg Church was first mentioned in 1110 as the Church of St. Vitus in Terniperch . At that time the church property of the monastery Garsten and with today Garsten Abbey closely connected that in 1082 the Styrian Margrave Ottokar II. Was established. His grandson, the Styrian Margrave Ottokar III. , confirmed this in 1143 by naming it as the Church of St. Veit in Dernberc .
During a restoration in 1884 it became clear that the church had only consisted of the current presbytery since its construction . When the side altars were removed, well-preserved plasterwork was discovered, from which one could conclude that the western church wall had stood at this point. During the Gothic period , the church building was expanded more and more.
In 1309, the aristocratic Steyr citizen Cuntz von Stegen donated two goods to the church for holding a mass. Since then there has also been talk of the Dernberg parish . Pastor Hyeronimus was mentioned in 1464 as the first pastor living in Ternberg, who is also considered a great benefactor of the parish. The precious glass windows in the choir room date from around this time.
With the pastor Anton Brundorfer, the Reformation found its way into Ternberg around 1550. He represented the teachings of Luther and took up the office of Abbot von Garsten in 1559 as a married cleric. This means that profound changes have taken place in the church building. It was expanded to its present height in 1557 and the late Gothic reticulated vault or egg vault was built. The year 1557 on the elevator tree under the roof indicates the new roof. The old arched windows on the south side, which are now walled up, testify to the constant structural extensions and elevations of the church at that time.
Due to the migration to Garsten and the Thirty Years' War in the first half of the 17th century, there were constant changes of pastors.
The rectory at Ternberg, first mentioned in 1449 , the Schöckhof located in Breitenfurt, was exchanged in 1649 for the estate at Haslach between the rule of Steyr and the Garsten Abbey . Attempts were also made to move the rectory closer to the church, so in 1652 the Peilsteingut (now the old rectory ) was dedicated to it. Around the same time, reports testify to a rectory fire in which marriage, death and baptismal records were lost. After Gotthardt Paltinger rebuilt the parsonage in 1656 and another parsonage fire, it was rebuilt in its present form by Pastor Cajetan in 1741.
Due to the Counter-Reformation at the end of the 17th and beginning of the 18th century, the interior of the church was redesigned in Baroque style . In 1688 a new high altar was erected under the pastors Viktorin Wascher and Coelestin von Hohenwarth. At this time at the latest, the two apostle leaders Peter and Paul became the church patrons, at an earlier unknown point in time, St. Vitus was replaced as patron by St. Simon and St. Judah.
An engraving by Reslfeld towards the end of the 17th century shows that the church tower was raised by 10 meters in 1752 and covered by a pear-shaped gable roof. After a lightning strike in 1839, the tower roof got its current shape in 1879.
In 1829 the cemetery, which up until then had extended around the church, was relocated to its current location due to unpleasant smells.
Pastor and first mayor of Ternberg Wolfgang Forster began renovating the altar and pulpit in simple black and gold from 1850 to 1852. In favor of insignificant neo-Gothic work, the side altars and pulpit were replaced in 1884 under Pastor Karl Pölzl.
In 1948 a four-bell bell was installed in the church tower.
The neo-Gothic interior of the church was fundamentally redesigned and modernized in 2008 and 2009 according to plans by the architect Thomas Pauli and a concept by the artist Leo Zogmayer . As part of the modernization measures, the gallery was set back a few meters and covered with white panels that bear the music of a hymn.
architecture
Exterior description
The church can be accessed via two portals that are named after the two church patrons. The west portal with a Gothic archway and a modern door made of oak wood, also called `` Petrustor '', has been the main entrance to the church for centuries. On the glass doors of the located on the south side, so-called '' Paul Gate '', which is used as output port after the church services, to find verses from the Song of Songs of the Apostle Paul in his first letter to the Corinthians .
The baroque church tower with a baroque helmet from 1757 and a sundial stands in the southern corner of the choir.
On the eastern outer wall of the choir there is a rococo wrought iron cross from the third quarter of the 18th century.
Inside description
The one-bay Gothic choir has a ribbed vault and a 5/8 end. It was built in the 14th century. The four glass paintings in the leaded glass windows in the chancel are of great art-historical importance. They date from the second half of the 15th century and show four "holy bishops", including St. Berthold, the first abbot of the Benedictine Abbey of Garsten, St. Nicholas and St. Wolfgang.
The four-bay nave is single-nave and has a ribbed vault with retracted struts . The Gothic west gallery above the entrance area is three-axis and rests on a ribbed vault. On the gallery is the organ .
Furnishing
The baroque high altar was built between 1688 and 1690 by Marian Rittinger , who worked as a sculptor and lay brother in Garsten Abbey . After several redesigns, the current appearance of the altar dates from the 19th century. The altar sheet with a depiction of the " Resurrection of Christ " was made by Johann Karl von Reslfeld, the house painter of the Garsten Abbey, in 1689.
From an originally multi-part group of figures from the 18th century, which also included a canopy and figures of Saint Barbara and Saint Catherine, only the statue of Our Lady with the child was left in the church as part of the last redesign measures.
On the north wall of the nave opposite the Paulustor there is a crucifixion group and the epitaph by Thomas Schrappacher from 1628.
The ambo, the people's altar, the priest's seat, the lecture cross and the seating were made from wood according to a uniform design concept with clear geometric shapes. Each of the chairs has a small metal plate with a reference to a Bible passage in the New Testament .
Bells
After three bells had to be handed in for war purposes in 1917 , new bells were purchased in 1923. Of these, too, three had to be removed again in the Second World War in order to be melted down. Since 1948 there has been a ringing of 4 bells with the mood fis-ahd in the church tower of the parish church Ternberg , which were made in the Upper Austrian bell foundry St. Florian .
literature
- Erwin Hainisch; Kurt Woisetschläger; u. a .: Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria: Upper Austria, Ternberg . 5th edition. Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1971, p. 343 .
- Katholische Pfarrgemeinde Ternberg (ed.): A good place for God's word . Wagner, Linz 2015, ISBN 978-3-903040-05-2 .
Web links
- The parish Ternberg on the website of the Diocese of Linz
Individual evidence
- ^ Upper Austria - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. ( Memento from June 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) . Federal Monuments Office , as of June 28, 2013 (PDF).
Coordinates: 47 ° 56 ′ 45 ″ N , 14 ° 21 ′ 24.5 ″ E