Parish Church of Totzenbach
The parish church of Totzenbach is located to the west in the town of Totzenbach in the market town of Kirchstetten in the St. Pölten-Land district in Lower Austria . The Roman Catholic parish church , consecrated on the feast of All Saints' Day , belongs to the Neulengbach deanery in the diocese of St. Pölten . The church and the cemetery are under monument protection ( list entry ).
history
The Gothic church was built in the third third of the 14th century. In 1374 a parish was founded with Hans von Totzenbach. In 1683 the choir was partially destroyed in the Turkish War and in 1699 was given a flat ceiling. The ridge turret received a tent roof in 1756. The southern porch and the sacristy annex were built in the 18th century. 1901 was a renovation. 1981/1982 was a restoration.
architecture
The staggered nave and the long choir are uniformly Gothic. The nave shows itself with buttresses under a high uniform gable roof. The smooth western front has a buttress in the middle. The centrally placed square roof turret under a tent roof is clad with copper. The low aisles have choirs which close polygonally at the height of the triumphal arch. The long choir with a polygonal end has the same ridge height as the nave and a higher eaves than the nave and shows two-lane pointed arch windows with circular and three-pass tracery, which was later ignored. The war memorial from 1957 for the fallen of both world wars is on the choir.
The interior of the nave shows itself as a three-aisled staggered hall, the four-bay central nave has a ribbed vault on polygonal wall templates, the two-axis west gallery in the central nave is vaulted with ribs and has a late Gothic spiral staircase around 1500 in the west bay of the south aisle. The central nave is open with low pointed arches to the much lower and narrower aisles. The three-bay side aisles are vaulted with cross ribs and each have a one-bay choir with a five- eighth end after a constricting triumphal arch . In the southern vault of the choir there are vegetable keystones with the Totzenbacher coat of arms in relief . The main choir was given a flat ceiling (1699) after the vault was destroyed (1683). To the south of the choir is a Gothic seating niche with tracery with a round and cloverleaf frieze on the segment-arched lintel, opposite is a Gothic ogival sacraments niche with dazzling branches and the original rosette grille as well as another exposed niche and a bricked-up ogival opening.
In the porch of the portal, a stone relief Fourteen Helpers with the donor couple David Trauttmansdorff and his first wife Barbara Zenger von Schneeberg with a former predella is partly fragmented around 1520 and walled in in 1929, as well as the stone relief Ölberggruppe from the end of the 15th century.
Josef Pitza (1953) painted the ceiling frescoes 14 helpers in the choir. The ornamental stained glass is from 1889.
Furnishing
The high altar is a columned retable from the beginning of the 18th century, it shows the high altar image of Mary and All Saints, the upper image of the Trinity , and carries the statues Peter and Paul , the statues originally stood on the sacrifice portals, which were demolished. The left side altar bears a crucifixion group from the first half of the 18th century on the altar table. The right side altar with a simple table structure and an Adikula attachment was rebuilt by Franz Friedl (1948) and bears a copy of the Altötting statue of Mary from the mid-18th century.
The hanging pulpit with sound cover was built in the middle of the 18th century and shows a parapet painting of Four Evangelists from the 19th century. The massive octagonal font is from the end of the 14th century.
The organ was built by Franz Meindl in 1875. Josef Pfundner (1950) cast three bells .
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria south of the Danube 2003 . Totzenbach, Parish Church of All Saints, pp. 2344–2345.
Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 15 " N , 15 ° 48 ′ 28.7" E