Viehdorf parish church
The parish church Viehdorf stands on terrain that slopes slightly to the north in the center of the municipality of Viehdorf in the Amstetten district in Lower Austria . The patronage of St. The Roman Catholic parish church subordinate to Peter and Paul belongs to the Amstetten deanery of the diocese of St. Pölten . The church is a listed building ( list entry ).
history
According to a document in 1128, the church was a vicariate of the Amstetten-St. Stephan , a priest was mentioned in a document in 1312. From 1577 to 1627 the church was Protestant . In 1775 the church was elevated to a parish church.
The previous Protestant building from the beginning of the 17th century was rebuilt and consecrated in 1749. In 1965/1966 the church was rebuilt according to the plans of the architect Alois Stögerer.
architecture
The baroque hall church with transept-like additions has a choir, which is probably Gothic in its core, and a west tower that has been moved out of the axis.
The outside of the church shows windows with a wedge frame. On the south side of the nave there is a classicist triglyph rustic portal. The choir closes with a three-year ending. The tower, which is essentially medieval, has a baroque bell storey with clock gables under a massive double-hooded helmet from 1875.
The inside of the church shows a rectangular nave under a flat ceiling with a protruding organ gallery from 1965/1966. The broad triumphal arch is rounded. The single-yoke groin-vaulted choir has wide, inwardly kinked wall strips to separate the polygonal caps and longitudinally rectangular choir side chapels with high dividing arches. The baptistery is located on the first floor of the tower. There is a crypt from 1609 under the nave.
The figural glass painting was created in 1951/1957.
Furnishing
The high altar with a three-part structure with a pilaster frame and cranked entablature mentions 1749 in the essay, it shows the altar sheet Peter and Paul from the middle of the 18th century, in the predella zone epitaph of Johann von Greiffenberg 1608 in an oval frame. The free-standing altar table is from 1959.
Josef Breinbauer built the organ in 1862. Bells are named in 1948 and 1949.
Funerary monuments
- In the left side chapel, epitaph Christoff Ferdinand Ernstinger died in 1597 with a particularly finely crafted relief of the Resurrection of Christ in the framed center field with the deceased in front of the crucified. Three epitaphs of the Rißenfels family, Ferdinand Heinrich died in 1762, Emmanuel Heinrich in 1785 and Anna Franziska in 1772.
literature
- Viehdorf, parish church of St. Peter and Paul. In: The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria south of the Danube 2003 . P. 2471.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 9 ′ 1.8 ″ N , 14 ° 53 ′ 36.6 ″ E