Walterskirchen Parish Church
The Roman Catholic parish church of the Annunciation in the southern district of Walterskirchen in Lower Austria belongs to the Poysdorf dean's office . It is surrounded to the south and east by a cemetery and a baroque cemetery wall. It is a Gothic , essentially Romanesque stacked church with a retracted choir and north-west tower.
history
The parish of Walterskirchen has probably existed since around 1200. It was first mentioned in a document in the 14th century. From 1785 she was sovereign. The originally Romanesque building from the beginning of the 13th century (?) Probably had a two-aisled nave. In the 14th century, the choir was added and the central nave and the south aisle were vaulted.
Exterior construction
The nave with Gothic buttresses and baroque lunette windows lies under a deep saddle roof . Romanesque masonry and two Romanesque arched windows were exposed on the west and south walls . The west of the two windows is walled up. The simple gable front has a Gothic pointed arch portal from the first half of the 14th century, flanked by two towering buttresses. To the north of this is the slightly protruding church tower from the 15th century with sound windows and a pointed, octagonal stone helmet from the 19th century. The choir with a polygonal conclusion from the first half of the 14th century has buttresses and pierced with windows, presumably in 1900 within the gothic ogival jambs reduced and segmentbogig were completed. The east of these windows is walled up. On both sides of the choir there are extensions that are essentially late Gothic, with pent roofs and baroque lunette windows. In the south there is a walled-up portal from the beginning of the 16th century with a reinforced, shoulder-arched robe.
Interior
The three-aisled nave of the church is essentially Romanesque. The central nave and the southern aisle have four bays with a Gothic cross rib vault, probably from the end of the 14th century, on partly grooved , partly relief consoles . The plate keystones are knocked off in the eastern part of the aisle. The north aisle has three bays. Instead of the first yoke is the ground floor of the tower. The north aisle has a net rib vault on short approaches , towards the nave on consoles, and on the west side a figural relief. The nave is open to the side aisles in ogival arcades on eight-sided pillars. In the width of the central nave, a baroque organ gallery rises above a barrel vault with stitch caps in the west . The two-bay choir from the 14th century is slightly drawn in and bent to the southeast. It has a ribbed vault. This vault is six-part in the western part and rests on elongated, partly grooved consoles. Its keystones are decorated with sun and rosette motifs. To the north of the choir is a small, square-vaulted , baroque side chapel, which is connected to the aisle by a retracted round arch. South of the choir is the sacristy with a square vault over belt arches. In the choir there are stained glass depicting Saints Elisabeth and Joseph, marked 1905.
Facility
The baroque high altar fills the entire east wall of the choir. It has a column retable on a high base with a curved extension over entablature from the second half of the 18th century. The round-arched altarpiece with a representation of the Holy Family and the Annunciation was created at the end of the 17th / beginning of the 18th century and is flanked by figures of Saints Peter and Paul from the beginning of the 18th century. The free-standing, baroque altar table with a mighty, baroque tabernacle structure in tempietto form with adoring angel figures from the 19th century dates from the second half of the 18th century. The right, baroque side altar has a pilaster-framed wall retable from the middle of the 18th century and a revised altarpiece teaching Anna Maria to read . The altar in the north chapel has a wall structure in classicist forms from the end of the 19th century with figures of Saints Mary and Joseph . A late Gothic carved figure of the enthroned Mary with child was made at the beginning of the 15th century. The pulpit from the end of the 18th century is decorated with classical decor. The organ with a neo-Gothic case was created by Franz Ullmann in 1858. Other furnishings include the classical pews , the choir stalls and the confessional from the end of the 18th century, a stone baptismal font on a baluster base from the same period and a marble holy water font from the beginning of the 16th century with a basin in geometric relief. The bells were cast in 1630 and 1760.
Tombstones
The inventory of the church includes numerous tombstones . These include: in the choir a heavily worn red marble grave slab with a coat of arms from the 16th century, in the north aisle a heavily worn, red marble grave slab from the 16th century and an epitaph for Pastor Johannes Neuhold from 1722 with putto and mourning figure reliefs ; in the south aisle the red marble epitaph for Katharina Herpfenburg († 1617) and Margaretha Herpfenburg († 1622) with relief and coat of arms of the sisters, set in 1622, a tombstone by Franciscus Chat (?), inscribed 1690, furthermore Maria Regina Unmuothin († 1655), Johannes Chonradus († 1655), Mittermaier († 1687) and a white marble slab by Maria Sabina Mandellin from 1663.
See also
literature
- DEHIO Lower Austria north of the Danube . Berger, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-85028-395-3 , pp. 1239f.
Web links
- Description of the church on the website of the Poysdorf deanery
- Entry on the parish church of Walterskirchen in the Austria Forum (chapter sacred buildings)
Coordinates: 48 ° 39 ′ 7.8 " N , 16 ° 40 ′ 14.8" E