Weitersfelden parish church
The Weitersfelden parish church is located in Weitersfelden in the market town of Weitersfelden in the Mühlviertel in Upper Austria . The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Ulrich belongs to the deanery Unterweißbach in the diocese of Linz . The church is a listed building .
history
Around 1300, a wooden church is assumed to be the site of the church as a manorial church to secure the influence and rights of use of a landlord. According to document book VIII / 285, Ulrich von Capellen acquired the forest office of Weitersfelden. A year later on July 25, 1353 he bought the "Gut zu Waydersfelden, the freyes Aigen is with everything that goes with it, be it Kichlehen, Urbar, the Verlehnd-Gut, Wälder, Forst, Wissmath, Fischwayd ,gericht and Vogthey etc." So clearing work was done here much earlier than 1337 and the church loan suggests an already existing own church. Weitersfelden is already listed in the Lohnsdorfer registers as a full parish with baptism and burial rights. The date of the founding of the parish in 1337, brought by Dechant Frühwirt through a festival, does not stand up to scientific scrutiny, but can be seen in a completely different light in the light of the latest research results. Weitersfelden already fulfilled the four characteristics of a full parish in the Lohnsdorfer matriculations: own church, own pastor, own parish and legal independence from another parish. The Lohnsdorfer register, the oldest surviving list of benefices of the former bishopric of Passau, which reflects the status of the second half of the 14th century, already ranks Weitersfelden among the full parishes. The hypotheses of Rudolf Zinnhobler and Ludwig Riepl about the development of the Weitersfelden parish as a stately individual church are largely backed up by this evidence. Neither of them believed that the Weitersfelden parish was a branch church of the mother parish in Naarn or Gutau, as many historians and local researchers claimed. There were local fires in 1706, 1784 and 1853 that always affected the church. For the first time there is a simple sketch of the church with onion dome in 1718 in an Aist regulation plan . A charcoal drawing from 1886 shows the church with a pointed helmet tower.
Church building
The church stands on a step to the north of the street in Weitersfelden and was initially surrounded by a cemetery. The cemetery was moved to the south of the village in 1801. In 1972 the old, wide flight of stairs from the street to the south portal of the church was redesigned and made slightly narrower. The old granite staircase gave a view from the market square to the pierced pointed arch gate of the church. This main entrance gate is provided with a curved walling, so that a protected entrance area is created. This brick canopy is popularly known as the "donkey's back". On the old, wider outside staircase, plays such as "Jedermann" and history games "Weitersfelden at the time of the founding", "Ritter Haym der Bauernschinder" and contemporary plays were performed.
The choir is from the middle of the 14th century. The nave walls in the north, west and east contain the remains of a previous building. The basic reconstruction of the thus square nave by an extension to the south took place around 1500. The late Gothic nave as an approximately square two-bay, two-aisled room with centering star rib vault over a central support, concrete support since 1971/72, is remarkably unique for the Mühlviertel. The church tower from the 14th century was renewed in the end of the 19th century in the upper area. From 1971 to 1972, according to the plans of the architect Anton Zemann, the nave was extended to the west and a sacristy was added. The western extension, which was the same width as the nave, required the dissolution of the western nave wall, with two pillars now standing at the end points of the ribbed vault and the historical western wall in the middle area from the height of the gallery. The late Gothic triumphal arch connecting the nave to the choir is now asymmetrically situated due to the extension of the nave to the south. The one-yoke choir with five- eighth end is vaulted with two round keystones and baroque in a polygon with stitch caps. The tower with a structure of two zones stands in the southern corner of the nave and choir. To the east of the tower and south of the choir is the sacristy extension, analogous to the choir with a polygonal closure.
Facility
The neo-Gothic furnishings from 1878 were removed again in 1933 and partially built into the chapel in Knaußer. The furnishings were renewed in 1933 in the Baroque style. Weitersfelden was one of the first parishes to remove the so-called Brettlgotik between 1933 and 1936. Dean Franz Frühwirth collected baroque figures of saints from the whole diocese and designed the high altar as a baroque picture wall with the sculptor Artur Rauch, which remained unchanged until the general renovation of the parish church in 1972.
In 1972 the parish church was redesigned after the nave was lengthened. The organ and choir were moved back to the annex, exposing the gothic party room. The altar picture wall from 1933 was no longer put up except for the altar table with tabernacle. The statue of the first patron saint, St. Ulrich, and the second patron saint, St. Martin, date from the 18th century and have been restored in the chancel.
On the north wall we find St. Leopold and St. Christophorus, on the south wall the Saints Heinrich and Florian from the year 1789. The community chronist and community archivist Ludwig Riepl researched the exact origin of the statues. Quite a few interesting details came out of the daylight. The figures of St. Leopold and the extremely rare figure of St. Heinrich come from the summer refectory of the Schlägel monastery. They are said to have belonged to a group of three kings there around 1750. Dechant Frühwirth had the sculptor Rauch from Altmünster create a St. Leopold and a St. Heinrich from the figures of the Three Kings. We find the rare figure of St. Heinrich in the Weitersfelden parish church because the chaplain Heinrich Koller and the then mayor of Weitersfelden, Heinrich Reknagel, financed this figure. Dechant Frühwirth absolutely needed a fourth saint figure for the baroque picture wall.
The baroque altar of Mary has been thoroughly restored. The Madonna and Child (mid-18th century) is flanked by the much smaller statues of St. Sebastina (1680) and St. Roch or James.
The second and left side altar was previously dedicated to the second church patron, St. Martin. This is why it is mistakenly referred to today as the Martini tar and Saint Martin is assumed to be on the altarpiece. But it is a Brixius picture from the former castle chapel of Harrachstal , which was then called Brixenthal. The picture was painted by Wolfgang Andreas Heindl in 1734. A matching image of the Holy Trinity is in the rectory. Baron Johann Georg Adam von Hoheneck had two sons (Leo and Brix) and therefore had an altarpiece with St. Brixius made for the castle chapel. In 1769, Baron Brix von Hoheneck had to sell the rulership of Brixenthal to the Counts of Harrach, who made Brixenthal today's Harrachstal.
When the small statue of St. Anthony (approx. 1750) at the entrance to the choir of St. Elisabeth (beginning of the 18th century) had to give way, it was repositioned on the south wall. On the south wall above the main entrance we find a plastic representation of the Heart of Jesus (half-figure Heart of Jesus in a halo) from the year 1780. The parapet of the gallery is adorned by the four evangelists by Josef Neudecker (1885), who come from the baroque pulpit.
The last interior and exterior renovation of the Weitersfeldn parish church of St. Ulrich was completed in 2012. Bishop Ludwig Schwarz blessed the church and the completely redesigned church square. Dombauhütte Linz professionally renovated the remarkable south portal from 1480. The baroque church furnishings were chemically treated in 2015 due to woodworm infestation.
literature
- Rudolf Zinnhobler: diocese organization. Establishment of the parishes of the Diocese of Passau . In: Ludwig Riepl (Ed.): Weitersfelden. A local history reader and a local history . Plöchl-Verlag, Weitersfelden 1997.
- Ludwig Riepl: rulership and first mention in Weitersfelden . In the S. (Ed.): Weitersfelden. A local history reader and a local history . Plöchl-Verlag, Weitersfelden 1997.
- Dehio Mühlviertel 2003 , Weitersfelden, parish church hl. Ulrich, p. 954ff.
- Ludwig Riepl: The parish church of St. Ulrich and the parish history of Weitersfelden. Foreword from Mayor Franz Xaver Hölzl, greeting from parish administrator Ireneusz Dziedzic, designer Klaus Preining, lecturer Anna Dietscher, church leader, self-published by the parish of Weitersfelden, Weitersfelden 2012.
- Ludwig Riepl: The pastors of the Weitersfelden parish from 1337 to 2000. P. 118–121.
- Ludwig Riepl: Financial situation of the parish of Weitersfelden. Archive, parish property, parish income, pp. 121–124.
- Ludwig Riepl: The parish church of St. Ulrich and the parish history of Weitersfelden. Church leaders, 2012.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rudolf Zinnhobler, see literature
- ↑ Aistregulierungsplan in the archives of the castle Schwertberg
Coordinates: 48 ° 28 ′ 39.6 " N , 14 ° 43 ′ 41.9" E