Parish church of Waldenstein
The Roman Catholic parish church of Waldenstein is located in Waldenstein in the municipality of Waldenstein in Lower Austria . The parish church of St. Michael and pilgrimage church belongs to the deanery Gmünd in the diocese of St. Pölten . The church is a listed building .
history
The church was built on the site of a former castle chapel. The originally Romanesque church with an east tower was built over by a Gothic church with a west tower. The church was a vicariate church in the 14th century and was called a parish church around 1390. The church was incorporated into Zwettl Abbey from 1319 to 1745 . The church was rebuilt in the 15th century. There was a fire in 1564. After 1833 there was a pilgrimage. In 1837 the church was rebuilt. In 1892 there was a renovation. In 1965 the church was rebuilt.
architecture
- Church exterior
The church is raised in the southeast of Waldenstein and is surrounded by a cemetery with a renewed wall. The nave, which is essentially Gothic, has arched windows from the 1st half of the 19th century. The nave expands into a sprawling transept with a subsequent choir with a three-sided end, both from the renovation in 1965, with remains of the buildings from 1837 and the remains of the former Gothic two-bay choir from the end of the 14th and the beginning of the 15th. Century were included. This was followed in 1965 by two-storey extensions as sacristies and oratorios, which also include single-storey with sacristy and confessional chapel at the end of the choir. The transepts have porches. On the north side, a Gothic pointed arch tympanum with a rosette of the former sacraments niche has been preserved. Presumably after the fire of 1564, the square west tower with round arched sound windows and a cornice was built in the second half of the 16th century. It is framed by stone from the 2nd half of the 17th century. The bell helmet is baroque.
- Church interior
The nave was converted into a two-aisled, three-bay hall under a ribbed vault on two octagonal pillars and wall brackets in the 15th century. In the west yoke is a Gothic cross-ribbed organ loft over two chamfered pointed arch arcades. In the east yoke, the vault ribs are reduced to three beams. This is followed by a transversely oblong yoke between drawn-in round arches under a sail vault from 1820 on the site of the former Romanesque east tower, which was dismantled. This is followed by the large transept from 1965 on the site of the former Gothic choir. The transverse arms have flat cell covers. After the round apse arch the arched apse from 1837 follows.
The stained glass around 1892 shows busts of Sts in two medallions. Ludwig and Andreas Avellinus and the legend of the statue of grace by Grünberg. A glass painting from 1965 in the transept shows supplicants for Maria.
Furnishing
The late classical high altar from 1844 shows the grace figure of Mary with child in an arched niche between double columns. The figure of grace is a modified replica of the figure of grace with the hoe in the arm from the Cistercian monastery Grünberg in Bohemia, which has been venerated in the Franciscan Church in Vienna since 1607 after miraculous help in the Turkish campaign of 1603 . The replica was documented in 1679, was in the Franciscan Church in Klosterneuburg from 1713 to 1784, and was revised in 1833 or a new copy was dedicated to Waldenstein. The high altar has crowning angel figures with the guardian angels Michael and Raphael from the 3rd quarter of the 18th century and vase attachments in Rococo style.
A baroque crucifix is from 1729. There are carved figures of Peter and Paul from the 3rd quarter of the 18th century. There is a remarkable Man of Sorrows from the beginning of the 18th century, an Archangel Raphael from the beginning of the 18th century and a Johannes Nepomuk from the 3rd quarter of the 18th century. There is a group of stone figures from the 1st half of the 17th century. The font is from 1965.
There are bells from 1765, 1766, 1792 and 1815.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria north of the Danube 1990 . Waldenstein, parish church St. Michael, pp. 1231-1232.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 43 ′ 41.9 ″ N , 15 ° 1 ′ 11.9 ″ E