Parish church Unterweißbach
The parish church Unterweißbach is in the village of Unterweißbach in the market town of Unterweißbach in the district of Freistadt in Upper Austria . The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Nikolaus belongs to the deanery Unterweißbach in the diocese of Linz . The church is a listed building .
history
The Romanesque branch church of the parish church of St. Jakobus in Schönau im Mühlkreis was officially elevated to a parish church in 1334. In 1382 the lords of Ruttenstein were the pastor's representatives. The parish church received an indulgence in 1501 . In 1556 the Ruttenstein dominion was pledged to Greinburg and since then the patronage has been with Greinburg. Church fires are named for the years 1704, 1724, 1766 and 1862. The church was surrounded by a cemetery until 1787. The north wall and parts of the west and east walls of the nave are Romanesque. The choir and probably the tower were built in the second half of the 14th century. From 1500 to 1510 the church was extended, raised and vaulted by a side aisle in the south. The former Gothic sacristy was expanded in 1719. A new spire was put on in 1872 and a staircase was added to the west. In 1954 an extension was added to the north and in 1995 a confessional room was added to the north of the nave. Restorations were in 1936, 1970 and 1995/1996.
architecture
The parish church is dominant in the highest position of the market town and has narrow forecourts in the south and east and is structurally connected to the parish hall in the north. The decorative detail design of the church makes the hall church a remarkable example of the latest Gothic. The vault design in the nave, named with Freistadt architecture around 1500/1510 , is analogous to the choir of the parish church St. Alexius in Hellmonsödt , the choir of the parish church Hirschbach im Mühlkreis and the choir of the parish church St. Leonhard in St. Leonhard near Freistadt . Constricted einjochige light emerging from the central axis of the northern nave choir with five-eighth circuit was then located on the center axis of the Romanesque nave. The tower in the southern corner of the choir has mighty walls. The two-storey sacristy is built into the northern corner of the choir. The 1954 annex adjoins the sacristy to the west. A double-barreled staircase was built on the west facade.
During the renovations in the 20th century, the exterior of the church was kept stone-visible. A profiled eaves cornice runs around the entire building. Gothic components are built in above the bases and on the buttresses. On the nave, the buttresses are spur-shaped in the upper area, the surfaces have a frame structure, and the buttresses in the north are simple. The western, ogival west portal from the second half of the 14th century was moved to its current location in 1996 and has a neo-Gothic door from 1900. The late-Gothic south portal from the beginning and first quarter of the 16th century is remarkably dense and round-arched and analogous the type as in the parish church of St. John the Baptist trained in Bad Zell . The church has two-lane late Gothic tracery windows with partly renewed tracery and the soffits profiled on the south side. The church has other younger windows, arched and rectangular, from the 17th and 19th centuries. The choir has two-lane pointed arch windows.
The church has a gable roof over the nave. Above the choir is a lower hipped roof and a turret with a pointed helmet. The roofs are rafter roofs with a lying and standing chair. The roof structure in the choir is marked 1881. The tower has a sloping cornice above the base, analogous to the choir, and the remains of a Gothic red joint painting on the southeast corner. The tower portal has a skylight and a door with iron plate fittings from the 16th century. The bell chamber has arched sound windows from the 18th or 19th century and a pointed helmet.
On the south side of the church are three remarkable wrought-iron, decoratively designed grave crosses with latticework, rocailles, auricles and flower tendrils by the art locksmith Karl Kaufmann from the 18th century behind a stone balustrade, which was transferred here as a former dining grille from 1763. To the east of the choir is a crucifixion group from 1913.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Mühlviertel 2003 . Unterweißbach, parish church St. Nikolaus, Pfarrhof, pp. 898–901.
Coordinates: 48 ° 26 '8 " N , 14 ° 46' 55" E