Weitra parish church
The Weitra parish church is located in the town of Weitra in the municipality of Weitra in Lower Austria . The Roman Catholic parish church of Sts. Peter and Paul belong to the deanery of Gmünd in the diocese of St. Pölten . The church is a listed building .
history
The parish law with the patronage of St. Peter and Paul were transferred here from Alt-Weitra at the beginning of the 13th century. The Romanesque single-nave church with an east tower dates from the beginning of the 13th century. In 1439 the tower yoke on the east side was vaulted and a Gothic choir was added to the east and a Barbara chapel was added to the north. In the 3rd quarter of the 15th century, the nave was extended to a three-aisled hall space and the central nave was vaulted. A south-facing Holy Cross Chapel was built south of the tower yoke in 1760/1761 as a foundation by Franz Josef Keufel von Ullberg. The church was surrounded by a cemetery until 1792. A restoration took place in 1974/1975.
architecture
The church stands in the north of the walled city within a spur-like expansion of the largely preserved medieval city fortifications of Weitra . West of the parish church is a steep drop to the Lainsitz river . The church originally served as a fortified church to additionally secure the nearby city wall. The church stands in the middle of a partly ring-shaped church square.
- Church exterior
The basilica-like nave with a late Gothic elevated central nave has pressed two-part pointed arched windows around 1505. The lower side aisles with buttresses have a circumferential coffin cornice on the south side and cornice pieces on the north side and two and three-lane tracery windows on the south side. On the south side, a baroque porch porch was built in front of a Gothic-barbed shoulder arch gate in the 2nd yoke from the 15th century. In front of the 4th yoke there is the addition of a Gothic rectangular chapel with bricked-up tracery windows in the south and a baroque flat arch window in the west. The north aisle has pressed pointed arch windows and a partially walled two-lane tracery window. The simple west facade has a three-lane tracery window in the middle and a tracery oculus on the south aisle. The west portal is a pointed arch gate and has a baroque porch with a stair tower to the north. The tower has been preserved in Romanesque style up to the ridge height of the nave, the bell-shaped storey, which was added in 1505, has two-lane tracery soundproof windows, above it is a baroque cornice with a bent pyramid roof from 1878. The south side of the tower is the transversely directed rectangular Baroque Holy Cross chapel from 1760/1761 , it has a southern apse and shows a structure with pilaster strips and flat arched windows under oculi. On the north side of the tower and choir is the built-on longitudinal two-bay Barbara chapel with five-eighth closing around 1439 with two-part buttresses and two-lane tracery windows.
The two-bay choir with a five-eighth closure before 1439 has buttresses, which are divided into three parts by a circumferential coffin cornice and cornice pieces or on the south side with tabernacle niches. The choir has two-lane tracery windows, walled up in the east and changed to Baroque in the north. On the south side of the choir is a fragment of a fresco Annunciation around 1439, a stone relief Christ on the Mount of Olives around 1500, a coat of arms grave stone for Berchtold Wagner 1500, a priest's grave stone 1602. At the apex of the choir is a baroque, almost square sacristy from 1755 with pilaster structures and arched windows.
There are inscription tombstones and a priest's tombstone on the city wall.
- Church interior
The porch from the 18th century has a groined vault with stucco ridges. The three-aisled basilica nave has a central nave with an originally flat-roofed Romanesque hall. In the undivided side walls, walled-up arched windows as well as Romanesque ashlar masonry above the aisle vaults can be seen. A Romanesque arched gate has been preserved in the second aisle yoke on the south side. To the side aisles are unevenly wide, low, pointed arcades. A late Gothic elevation of the central nave was made around 1505 with a ribbed vault on consoles and lancet caps over the high lancet windows. The three-axis cross-rib vaulted west gallery over fluted arched arcades on eight-sided pillars has a base attachment in the parapet. The neo-Gothic gallery upper floor made of wood with tracery parapet is from the 2nd half of the 19th century.
Furnishing
The high altar is a work by Johann Walser from the year 1749. The altar sheet of a side altar was painted in 1747 by Martin Johann Schmidt . In 1904, Josef Rifesser created the neo-Gothic altars in the Barbara Chapel.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria north of the Danube 1990 . Weitra, parish church of St. Peter and Paul, pp. 1272-1274.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 42 ′ 9 ″ N , 14 ° 53 ′ 34.3 ″ E