Parish Church Waizenkirchen
The Roman Catholic parish church Waizenkirchen is located in the market town of Waizenkirchen in the Grieskirchen district in Upper Austria . The church, consecrated to Saints Peter and Paul , belongs to the Deanery Peuerbach in the Diocese of Linz . The church is a listed building .
history
The originally Gothic church fell victim to a fire in the 18th century. After the reconstruction took place from 1738 to 1748. Today's late baroque church with Gothic components was restored in 1987.
architecture
The five-bay nave is followed by a retracted four-bay choir with a three-eighth end, the nave and choir have lancet barrel vaults. The five-bay south aisle (1739) has square vaults . The four-axis, two-bay, two-storey west gallery has a Gothic vault in the substructure, the ribs have been removed. The tower in the southern choir corner has an onion helmet (1739). The sacristy has a mirror vault.
Furnishing
The high altar from 1891 and the side altars are neo-baroque. The high altar picture Peter and Paul was painted by Martin Johann Schmidt (1799); it was restored in 1953. There are other alternating pictures by Schmidt, picture Resurrection of Christ (1800), and picture Nativity with the reference Mart. Joh. Schmidt, last painting, died June 28, 1801 in the 83rd year . The pictures Adoration of the Magi and Outpouring of the Holy Spirit are works of his school. The left side altar shows the picture Mariahilf von Schmidt (1775). The right side altar shows the image of St. Sebastian around 1700 in the manner of the Caravaggio School. The cross altar in the south aisle bears a crucifixion group with plastic figures of the crucified and Sorrowful Mother of God from the second quarter of the 18th century, the other figures are new. In the choir are six life-size baroque saints from the second quarter of the 18th century. Schmidt probably painted the two oval pictures of Saints Johannes Nepomuk and Johann Carl in the choir.
Figurative gravestones and heraldic gravestones date from the 16th to 19th centuries. Noteworthy is a stone from Endres Ammander 1564 with an inlaid ore plate with a crucifixion relief on the outside of the church.
literature
- Waizenkirchen, parish church of St. Peter and Paul. Pp. 355-356. In: The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Upper Austria. By Erwin Hainisch , reworked by Kurt Woisetschläger , prefaces to the 3rd edition (1958) and 4th edition (1960) by Walter Frodl , sixth edition, Verlag Anton Schroll & Co., Vienna 1977.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 19 '47.3 " N , 13 ° 51' 26.1" E