Parish Church of Winden am See

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Catholic parish church of St. Florian in Winden am See
inside view

The Roman Catholic parish church of Winden am See is located in the municipality of Winden am See in the Neusiedl am See district in Burgenland . It is consecrated to St. Florian and belongs to the Deanery Neusiedl am See in the Diocese of Eisenstadt . The building is under monument protection ( list entry ).

Location description

The church is at the southern end of the village.

history

Already before 1453 there was a parish in Winden am See. The old church was destroyed during the Second Turkish Siege of Vienna . Including the masonry of the older church, the church was rebuilt in 1725 by Elias Hügel , master stonemason from Kaisersteinbruch . The church was restored in 1833, 1898 and 1961. See the structural similarity to the St. Lorenz branch church on Mondsee in Upper Austria.

architecture

Church exterior

The church is a baroque building with a broad facade. A coat of arms of the Heiligenkreuz Abbey can be seen above the north portal . Between the two facade towers with pressed onion helmets made of stone is a volute gable with vase decoration . The figure of St. Florian stands in a niche. The choir has moved in and has a 3/8 end.

Church interior

The nave is three-bay and barrel-vaulted with deep stitch caps . The vault rests on flat two-tier pilasters . In the barrel-vaulted tower yoke there is a gallery without supports, but with a curved and paneled parapet. The triumphal arch is broad. The choir yoke is long. Above is a cap vault. On the right side is the sacristy portal . There are inclined pilasters in the apse.

Furnishing

The equipment comes from the construction period. The high altar was created in the first half of the 18th century. It consists of a pilaster wall with entablatures over Corinthian columns. The altarpiece shows St. Florian. The side figures represent the holy kings Ladislaus and Stephan . The side altars are attached to the triumphal arch. They date from around 1740 and have the same structure. The left altarpiece shows the " stigmatization of St. Francis ". It is flanked by figures of Saints Sebastian and Rochus . St. Rosalia is shown lying in the cafeteria . On the cafeteria there is a Byzantine image of the Virgin in an Empire metal frame from the first half of the 19th century. The altarpiece of the right side altar shows St. Teresa of Ávila . It was painted by Johann Länner . The flanking figures represent St. Benedict and St. Norbert . The pulpit is decorated with gold-plated rocailles. A relief "Christ and the Samaritan" is depicted on the basket. A relief of the Evangelists is depicted on the back wall of the pulpit. The sound cover has the shape of an onion helmet. There is a figure of the " Good Shepherd " on it.

organ

The organ was made by Friedrich Deutschmann in 1829 .

literature

  • Dehio-Handbuch - The art monuments of Austria - Burgenland. Winden am See, parish church St. Florian. Edited by Adelheid Schmeller-Kitt with contributions by Friedrich Berg , Clara Prickler-Wassitzky and Hannsjörg Ubl. Verlag Berger, Horn / Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-85028-400-4 , p. 322.

Web links

Commons : Parish Church Winden am See  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Burgenland - 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).

Coordinates: 47 ° 56 ′ 51.1 ″  N , 16 ° 45 ′ 30.6 ″  E