Parish Church Weiten
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The Weiten parish church is slightly elevated in the southwest of the market in the market town of Weiten in the Melk district in Lower Austria . The Roman Catholic parish church , consecrated to the martyr Stephen , belongs to the Deanery Spitz in the diocese of St. Pölten . The church and the cemetery are under monument protection ( list entry ).
history
The parish was founded by the Diocese of Passau in the middle of the 11th century and was mentioned in a document in 1120. The parish was incorporated into Vilshofen Abbey from 1432 to 1804 .
The church was restored inside in 1956 and outside in 1970.
architecture
The Gothic staggered hall with an older Gothic choir above a gate passage with a smaller free-standing west tower is surrounded by a cemetery and a wall in the south and west, in the north there is the rectory, in the east there is a mortuary from 1985, in the south-east the municipal office from 1971.
- Church exterior
Due to the terrain, the nave from the first half of the 15th century stands on a stepped base under a steep hipped roof and has buttresses in unplastered ashlar masonry and two-lane pointed arched windows with tracery and two side portals with richly cross-barred cloaks to the north and to the south, shoulder-arched and south-facing 1500.
The west front is slightly recessed in the central nave width below the arched arcades at the height of the eaves line and is slightly sloping from the line and is probably a Romanesque core from the 11th century, in the basement there is a partly bricked-up pointed and arched window, both with Gothic tracery , on the upper floor there is an arched door between two oval windows with fighters and a wedge from the first half of the 19th century.
The strongly recessed choir from the second half of the 14th century has a roof turret and includes a passage under a barrel vault in a high base zone and has high pointed arched windows in the profiled walls with a remarkable two- and three-lane tracery, has buttresses from the base and sill cornice, the four eastern buttresses on multi-stepped plinths, with statues adorned with foliage and canopies as well as crowning stone pillars, some of which are placed over a corner. The choir was initially not overlooked by the nave, which is why the west front of the choir is visible from the attic as a visible side and includes a pointed arch window between two rectangular windows framed by the house and also a profiled former roof cornice and a profiled vertical cornice framing the side.
A sacristy is added to the choir to the south, the so-called old chapel to the north, both have a pent roof, from the first half of the 15th century, with unplastered corner blocks and two- and three-lane tracery windows, in the east of the sacristy the pointed arch window is walled up. The south front of the sacristy shows a poorly preserved fresco of Christophorus from the 15th century which was uncovered in 1970.
The two-storey west tower stands slightly over the edge of the enclosure wall, the lower storey from the second half of the 15th century has powerful pillars and small slotted windows, the upper storey from the 19th century has pointed arched sound windows and clock gables and has a hipped roof.
In the north of the choir there is a rectangular lighthouse under a saddle roof with clover-leaf-shaped tracery in the triangular gable. Next to it, above a polygonal base in a niche crowned by a stone canopy with eyelashes and branches, is a half- length Ecce Homo from the mid-15th century.
- Church interior
The nave as a three-aisled, four-bay staggered hall has chamfered pointed arcades on octagonal pillars between the central nave and the side aisles or on polygonal consoles in the east. The floor and the vault are documented from 1727, the central nave has barrel vaults with stitch caps, the side aisles have groin vaults over belt arches over richly profiled warriors. The gothic west gallery is vaulted in the middle with round arches and at the sides with pointed arches and has a baroque bulge made of wood with a richly carved top from around 1700, in the north-west a built-in staircase with a spiral staircase and a shoulder arch portal with profiled walls lead to the gallery. The east wall of the north aisle is opened with a chamfered pointed arch for the chapel extension, the chapel extension has a ribbed vault on consoles with a keystone from the second half of the 15th century, the south wall of the chapel is deeply arched with a rectangular niche in a profiled frame.
The triumphal arch is drawn in, round arched in Baroque style, over the warriors and stuccoed, with pilasters covering the beveled Gothic pointed arch up to half the height. After the triumphal arch, there is a two-bay choir with a five-eighth end with cross-ribbed vaults with keystones running from stepped consoles at the level of the surrounding cornice. The choir has tracery windows with richly profiled soffits that completely dissolve the wall at the end of the choir. The sacrament house has a gable with tracery and pinnacles, crab, tendril and cruciform decoration with an iron grille with rosettes and star decoration from the 14th century. In the north and south walls there are session niches each with three pointed arches in a rectangular frame with different consoles and tracery shapes. The pointed arched sacristy portal in a profiled frame is from the 15th century, the sacristy extension has a ribbed vault with keystone over consoles with tendril ornaments and a partially walled tracery window in the east.
The wall paintings in the choir were exposed in 1956. In architectural housings, they show Margarethe and Barbara, Anna selbdritt and Elisabeth in the south, Maria with child and a female saint with a donor couple in the north, who were ascribed to the 'Master of Thunau' around 1370/1380, and in the north Ulrich and Dorothea around 1420 later partly destroyed by a wall grave in 1586, and to the side of the sacrament house an altar shrine imitating Mary with the child and Stephen with flanking angels from the end of the 15th century, in the session niches there are remains of a Gothic tendril painting.
The stained glass in the original glazing as work of several extensive cycles of different workshops from 1370 - the main studio around 1380 - to around 1420 are preserved in the choir in six windows with over seventy panes, then two panes from 1506, then coat of arms medallions from the late 16th century. Restorations were carried out in 1873/1874 and from 1984. The cycles show the Passion of Christ, the life of Mary, the legends of Saints Catherine, Cosmas and Damian, Stephanus, Nikolaus and Peter, standing male and female saints as single figures and in pairs, mercy seat, man of sorrows, protective cloak and radiant wreath Madonna, enthroned Johannes Evangelist, St. Worry, architectural disks, donor disks, notably those of the ‹Katharina von Streitwiesen›.
There are numerous notable funerary monuments.
Furnishing
The high altar around 1640 is a mighty aedicule structure with a high extension and sacrificial passage portals and shows the altar leaf stoning of Stephen between winding columns.
The organ was built by Franz Capek in 1912.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria north of the Danube 1990 . Weiten, parish Weiten, parish church St. Stephanus, with floor plan, rectory. Pp. 1263-1266.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 17 '27.8 " N , 15 ° 15' 49.9" E