Weigelsdorf parish church
The parish Weigelsdorf is in Weigelsdorf in the municipality of Ebreichsdorf in the district of Baden in Lower Austria . The patronage of St. The Roman Catholic parish church subordinate to Peter and Paul belongs to the deanery Weigelsdorf in the vicariate Unter dem Wienerwald of the Archdiocese of Vienna . The former fortified church and the walled churchyard are under monument protection ( list entry ).
history
Documented before 1282 there was a church. 1340 a parish which was rebuilt in 1783.
The Romanesque / early Gothic choir tower church expanded from a small chapel building from the 12th century. The church was baroque in the 17th century. 1958 was an interior restoration. In 1983 excavations were carried out in the nave and in 1994 in the sacristy.
architecture
At the Romanesque nave there is a southern sacristy and adjoining it the late Romanesque chapel under a gable roof. The smooth western front has a small vestibule in front of a baroque portal. The north wall of the nave shows pointed and arched windows in funnel embrasures. The huge, wide choir tower was probably placed on top of the rectangular choir, the four-storey tower is divided by three Gothic cordon cornices and shows Romanesque ashlar masonry on the ground floor. The choir has two stepped buttresses placed over a corner and an ogival window each in the north and south, the east window is walled up. The tower has small stone-clad windows, ogival sound windows and round pair of loopholes around 1600, it has a classicist pyramid roof. On the east side of the tower there is a flight of stairs leading to the high access to the attic, next to the stairs is the Romanesque round apse of the chapel under a conical roof and with a double funnel arched window. A northern extension under a pent roof includes a staircase. The eaves show three unequal Romanesque / early Gothic eaves stones.
Furnishing
There is a copy of a Romanesque table altar from the 20th century on the choir wall.
Peter Hilzer mentions one bell in 1882. Two bells were cast by the Pfundner bell foundry in 1948.
Spolia
- In the east wall of the choir, remains of two Roman grave slabs with remains of inscriptions and a relief lower part with walking feet.
- In the south chapel and sacristy: Two limestone relief fragments, old early medieval sculptures from Lower Austria from the 9th to 11th centuries, probably from the archway or the choir screen from the previous building.
- Relief from Weigelsdorf
- In the chapel a fragment over a braided ribbon arch and a twisted string stylizing the sun and moon, threatened from below by a dragon-like animal, flanked on the left by a large bird, on the right flanked by a striding horse.
- In the sacristy a fragment of a monk in missionary clothing with a stick in his right hand, above his hat a standard with a lamb, a braided ribbon and twisted cord and the end of a bird's tail.
- Roman grave slab with a fragmented relief of a female figure in a long robe and an inscription for the local Celtic Vodercila, daughter of the Tata.
- Roman tombstone depicting Apollo with a lyre.
- On the outside of the southern churchyard wall, copies of the Roman relief stones, a Roman grave slab and a gemstone.
- Outside a fragment of the Marian column from 1676, destroyed by the Turks in 1685. Grave slab 1684. Boundary stone 1699.
literature
- Weigelsdorf, community Ebreichsdorf, parish church Hll. Peter and Paul, with floor plan, spoilage, lapidarium, rectory. In: The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria south of the Danube 2003 . Pp. 2565-2567.
Coordinates: 47 ° 56 ′ 53 " N , 16 ° 24 ′ 19.9" E