Windhaag parish church

Parish Church Windhaag near Perg

The parish church of Windhaag , consecrated to St. Mary Magdalene , was the monastery church of the former Dominican convent Windhaag until 1782 and is located in the center of Windhaag near Perg in the Perg district . In some cases, the church also serves as a venue for concerts, for example as part of the Danube Festival .

geography

The parish church Windhaag is the parish church of the Roman Catholic parish Windhaag / Perg in the dean's office Perg in the region Mühlviertel in for the state of Upper Austria competent Austrian diocese of Linz in the ecclesiastical province of Vienna .

This is done within the church administration with the parish number 4476 and has 1,096 Catholics, referring to the municipality of Windhaag bei Perg except the towns Karlingberg and Kuchl mill that the parish Perg belong and the village of Kemet, which the parish Muenzbach heard distribute .

The parish is responsible for the administration of the Windhaag local and parish cemetery. The former Windhaag Portiunkula Church, attached to the Windhaag vicarage, serves as the funeral hall .

The parish belong to the cadastral Windhaag bei Perg next to the main town Windhaag the villages Asching and Holzmann , in the cadastral Altenburg the villages Altenburg, Forndorf , Freidorf , Hochtor and Pragtal .

The parish is part of the pastoral care area of Perg , to which the parishes of Allerheiligen, Münzbach, Pergkirchen, Perg and Windhaag belong.

Neighboring parishes are All Saints' Day in the Mühlkreis , Münzbach , Perg , Pergkirchen and Rechberg in the Perg deanery and Bad Zell in the Pregarten deanery .

history

History of the parish

The parish of Windhaag / Perg was established in the course of the Josephine reforms on March 6, 1784, by transferring the parish rights of today's branch church , consecrated to St. Bartholomew , to the church of the Dominican convent of Windhaag , which was dissolved at the time .

History of the parish church

The parish church of Windhaag was built between 1685 and 1693 at about the same time as the Windhaag monastery and was consecrated on October 6, 1693 by Passau's bishop Johann Philipp von Lamberg . In the course of the Josephine reforms , the monastery was closed in 1782. Since then eleven pastors have worked in Windhaag. In 1849 the originally slender baroque spire burned down after a lightning strike and was replaced by a lower spire. In 1917, four of the six bells had to be delivered. The Magdalena bell remained in Windhaag and the Three Kings bell in Altenburg. In 1949 the full bells were restored by purchasing four bronze bells.

Building

The church is a manageable hall church with a 45 meter high tower on the west side. The main portal on the south side leads to a two-bay vestibule, from which doors lead into the bell house, the lower cloister and the single-nave six-bay church. The church is supplied with daylight through two rows of windows one above the other on the south side.

The former choir room for the nuns is located in the western part of the church on a gallery that stands on four slender granite columns. The three-bay chancel in the eastern part of the church is lower than the nave, indented to the side and has a straight choir closure.

On the north side of the nave there are upper and lower cloisters, which were structurally united with the church after the monastery was closed.

Interior decoration

Above the portal is a baroque wooden statue of the patron saint from around 1690.

The two high altar pictures were painted by Johann Wolfgang Dallinger when the church was being built around 1690, show scenes from the life of Maria Magdalena and were last restored in 1984 by Friedrich Fuchs.

The right side altar is dedicated to St. Agnes of Montepulciano (1268-1317). The tabernacle from 1913 was made by Georg Wagner. The existing tabernacle was placed in the left side altar, consecrated to St. Dominic.

One of the saints in the church is a late Gothic Madonna created by Hans Leinberger around 1510, which the Prager family had already acquired for the former palace chapel . The other sculptures of the saints date from around 1700. In 1984 the apostle crosses painted on the south and north walls were discovered and refreshed.

On the north wall of the nave there is the pulpit and the depiction of Our Lady of Sorrows from the 1st half of the 18th century.

A number of priests from 1706 to 1738 are buried in the church. According to the Book of the Dead, 75 Dominican women died between 1676 and 1830 and were originally buried in a nun's crypt in the lower cloister. Behind the Holy Sepulcher, built in 1910 on the east wall of the lower cloister, a painted iron door with an inscription bears witness to the nuns' former monastery dungeon.

Web links

Commons : Parish Church Windhaag  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Parish Windhaag / Perg on the homepage of the parish Windhaag near Perg

literature

• Josef Honeder (Rector of the Episcopal Gymnasium Petrinum from 1991 to 1996): Church leader Windhaag near Perg and Altenburg. Windhaag parish near Perg (publisher), Grein, around 2000.
• Eckhart Oberklammer: Parish Church of St. Maria Magdalena. In: District of Perg - Art and History. Linz 2010, p. 270 ff

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Parish finder  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Parish 4476 queried on March 15, 2014.  
2. ↑ Parish Windhaag / Perg in the culture atlas Doris - Land Oberösterreich, query topic parishes (add on the map boundaries of parishes and cadastral parishes)
3. ↑ Statistics Austria: Ortverzeichnis Oberösterreich 2001, Vienna 2005, District Perg, pp. 205ff PDF queried on November 6, 2011.

Coordinates: 48 ° 17 ′ 0 ″  N , 14 ° 40 ′ 49 ″  E