Parish church Weißkirchen an der Traun
The Roman Catholic parish church Weisskirchen an der Traun is in the town of Weisskirchen an der Traun in Wels-Land district in Upper Austria . It is consecrated to the feast of the Assumption of Mary and belongs to the deanery Wels-Land in the diocese of Linz . The church building and the cemetery are under monument protection ( list entry ).
history
A church at this location was first mentioned in a document in 1179. The construction of today's parish church in late Gothic style began around 1484 and was partially completed around 1527. In 1575 a sacristy was added. The tower was completed in 1629. This massive bell tower originally had a stone helmet with four graceful side towers, but received an onion helmet in 1807. In 1899 the church tower was designed in a neo-Gothic style and received triangular gables, which house the dials, as well as an octagonal, pyramid-shaped steep roof with a total height of 52 m. In 1916 the five bronze church bells and the copper tower roof were removed. A provisional cover with tar paper existed until 1920, until 1953 the tower roof was covered with wooden shingles.
In 1961 the interior was renovated, the neo-Gothic side altars came off and were replaced by baroque pictures depicting St. George (left) and the birth of the Lord (right). 1968 Baroque high altar of St. Ägydy in Thalheim was here translocated . In 1990 a major interior renovation and redesign of the parish church took place. In 2015 the parish church was extensively renovated and the church tower roof was completely renovated, with a copper covering and the renovated tower cross.
architecture
Church exterior
The church is a late Gothic two-nave hall church. The facade is structured by stepped buttresses . The west tower has a newer pointed helmet , the bell house is vaulted with star ribs. The south and west portal are late Gothic and died out. The richly barred north portal is walled up. There is a painted tracery frieze band around the choir . In the south, the sacristy with scratch-plaster painting from 1575 adjoins the choir. At the end of the choir there are baroque frescoes of the “Passions of Christ”. They were painted by Johann Georg Bergmiller in 1714 and restored in 1954 and partially repainted.
Church interior
The rib vaulted nave has four bays. The vault rests on octagonal pillars with round services . The south aisle has three bays. Above it is a ribbed vault . The retracted, wide choir is vaulted with mesh ribs. The vault in the choir has loop ribs. The choir is closed in 3/8 and was built in 1484. The west gallery is broken three times and rests on a ribbed vault.
Furnishing
The late Gothic stone pulpit base dates from 1554. There is a Gothic baptismal font in the bell house. In the church there is also a coronation group from the old high altar. It was created in the second quarter of the 18th century and restored in 1954. A painting of the crucifixion dates from the second quarter of the 18th century. There is a baroque wrought iron cross in the cemetery.
Bells
In 1922 the parish church received three steel bells with the tones f 1 , a 1 and c 2 . (Böhler, Kapfenberg). The fourth bell (death bell), tone h 2 , dates from 1638 (Fitler, Linz) and originally hung in the Wels forge tower.
literature
- Dehio-Handbuch - The art monuments of Austria: Upper Austria. Weißkirchen an der Traun. Parish Church of the Assumption. Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.) Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1977, 6th edition, p. 367.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ 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).
- ^ History of Weißenkirchen ( Memento from August 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), weisskirchen.at.
- ^ Parish Weißkirchen: Festschrift on the occasion of the renovation work on the parish church. 2015.
Coordinates: 48 ° 9 '51.3 " N , 14 ° 7' 39.8" E