Parish Church Thernberg
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The Roman Catholic parish church of Thernberg is located in the center of Thernberg in the market town of Scheiblingkirchen-Thernberg in Lower Austria . The parish church of the Immaculate Conception of Mary , incorporated into the Reichersberg monastery, belongs to the Kirchberg deanery in the Archdiocese of Vienna . The church is a listed building .
history
A Laurentiuskirche near Thernberg was presumably consecrated around 865. After 1147 it was consecrated by Archbishop Eberhard von Salzburg together with the Scheiblingkirchen parish church . The benefice was at the Reichersberg monastery . In the 13th century the church became a branch of the Bromberg parish church . In 1782 the church was elevated to a parish church and in 1783 it was again incorporated into the Reichersberg monastery . In 1789 the interior of the church was rebuilt with a reorientation to the west. The ashlar masonry was uncovered in 1940/1946. In 1977, Gothic wall paintings were uncovered.
architecture
- Church exterior
The parish church and the rectory stand to the west and form a triangular square with the former manor on the opposite side, with a feeder stream to the Schlattenbach remarkably preserved as an open channel, which is crossed to the main portal with a four-step staircase and bridge. The uniform Romanesque square building from the mid-12th century is unplastered. The nave , the choir square and the strongly recessed apse show corner pilasters and pilaster half columns on high bases in front of flat wall templates. The former narrow Romanesque arched windows in funnel embrasures were walled up and used as figural niches and next to them late Baroque segmented arched windows were inserted. The Romanesque windows have been preserved in the apse. The apse has a three-dimensional, two-tiered round arch frieze on concave consoles with two cube capitals . The Romanesque wall crown has been removed, but still shows a spoil with a chessboard frieze. Since 1798, the main portal with an iron-plate wing door has been located at the apse of the apse. The west facade shows a round arched Romanesque high entrance. In the south wall in the area of the oratory above the sacristy is a fragmented Romanesque relief stone with grapes and ears of wheat . In the eastern front of the nave there is a pilaster-structured niche with the figure of St. Koloman . The gable walls of the nave have a notch window in the attic to the east and west. In the nave niches are the statues of Saints Leopold, Leonhard, Monika and Antonius Eremit by the sculptor Alma Motzko (?) From the 1930s. The additions to the nave, in the south-west the plaster band structured sacristy under a pent roof, in the south-east a gallery staircase, are from the end of the 18th century.
The mission cross stands on an upturned cube capital as a pedestal, which was built in the middle of the 12th century.
- Church interior
The high two-bay Romanesque nave is followed by a retracted barrel-vaulted front yoke to a retracted choir square with a lower apse that has not been retracted. In 1798 the main portal was moved into the apse and a gallery with a swinging parapet was built into the choir square . The eastern Langhausjoch now has a flat ceiling and shows a relief Eye of God in a simple stucco mirror . The western nave yoke shows a steep, crossed ribbed vault made of vaulted stones above three-quarter columns on corner pilasters with smooth cube capitals. There is a warrior relief showing a bird with a leaf, a corner capital with volutes with a leaf and a braided band warrior. The western and eastern nave yoke are constricted with a strongly constricting belt arch , with the Romanesque models partially preserved in the east yoke. In the south wall of the west yoke is the former Romanesque, heavily damaged main entrance with cube capitals, which now provides access to the sacristy that was added at the end of the 18th century. In the north wall of the west yoke is the former staircase to the attic as a rectangular portal.
The wall paintings in two phases around 1300 and around 1400 were uncovered in 1977 and are only available in remnants. The north wall of the nave shows the figural representation of the Annunciation as an enthroned and standing figure with four image fields and 10 medallions with animals and mythical creatures on the belt arch and fragments of figures, frames, stencils and marbling in the apse area. On the south wall on the western yoke in the attic of the sacristy is the monumental late medieval depiction of St. Christophorus.
The stained glass depicts the Holy Family and Saints Joseph, Antonius and Aloysius.
Furnishing
The baroque high altar was built in 1754 for the former Altöttinger chapel of the Edlitz parish church and transferred here in 1785. The altar as a broad reredos framed with volutes and columns bears the statues Bernhard and Francis from the construction period. The central niche figure Maria with child is late Gothic around 1450. The post-baroque lunette picture God the Father as Creator of the World - donated by Archduke Johann of Austria - from the 1st quarter of the 19th century was painted by the painter Karl Russ . The sarcophagus-shaped altar table and tabernacle were created in 1935 based on a design by the architect and cathedral builder Karl Holey . The simple pulpit was built around 1800. Two further panel paintings Baptism of Christ and Maria Immaculata are by the painter Karl Russ. A brass plate on a pew reminds of the visit to church by Emperor Franz I in 1811. In the sacristy there is a remarkable secessionist lavabo signed Georg Klimt and Karl Holey from the 1st quarter of the 20th century. There are notable red marble tombstones dating from the 16th century.
There is a bell from 1656. Christof Packendorff (1756) cast a bell.
literature
- The Marienkirche Thernberg. Festschrift on the occasion of its 850th anniversary. 1147-1997.
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria south of the Danube 2003 . Thernberg, Parish Church of the Immaculate Conception of Mary, pp. 2337–2339.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Parish Thernberg. The development of the Christian parish Parish Thernberg
Coordinates: 47 ° 39 ′ 41.7 " N , 16 ° 10 ′ 36.3" E