Parish church Weißenkirchen im Attergau

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Catholic parish church of St. Margaretha in Weißenkirchen im Attergau

The Roman Catholic parish church Weißenkirchen im Attergau is located in the municipality Weißenkirchen im Attergau in the district of Vöcklabruck in Upper Austria . It is consecrated to St. Margaretha and belongs to the Frankenmarkt dean's office in the Linz diocese . The building is under monument protection ( list entry ).

history

The first documentary evidence of a church building comes from a letter of indulgence for the parish St. Georgen im Attergau (1299), whereby the church was originally named after its patron saint St. Margaretha im Wald. The parish church is a late Gothic building by master builder Stephan Wultinger.

architecture

Church exterior

The south portal is richly barred and has a stonemason's mark. A barrel-vaulted vestibule is built in front of the portal . The gate to the sacristy is Gothic. The west side of the tower, the weather side, was covered with cement panels due to the exposed location of the church.

Church interior

The nave is a hall church in the form of a "one-pillar church". The nave has two aisles and two bays. Above it is a mesh rib and star rib vault that rests on a roughened round column. The year 1514 is on the keystone. The choir is retracted and vaulted with mesh ribs. It closes in a 3/8 close. On the keystone are the maker's mark and the year 1512. The late Gothic ornamental frescoes in the choir vault were whitewashed during a renovation in 1951.

Furnishing

The neo-Gothic high altar was made by the Attersee sculptor Josef Hochrainer in 1890. The two neo-Gothic benches in the chancel match this. Biblical representations are shown on the baroque pulpit: on the front the image of a sower in the old peasant costume of the Attergau, on the side the catch of fish, on the altar side the appearance of the resurrected man (here depicted as youthful and beardless) in front of the disciples in a landscape that resembles the Attergau is similar.

literature

  • DEHIO manual. The art monuments of Austria: Upper Austria. Weißenkirchen im Attergau. Parish church hl. Margaretha. Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.), Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1977, 6th edition, p. 366.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Upper Austria - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. ( Memento from June 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) . Federal Monuments Office , as of June 21, 2016 (PDF).

Coordinates: 47 ° 56 '59.2 "  N , 13 ° 25' 2.9"  E