Parish Church Witzelsdorf
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The Roman Catholic parish church of Witzelsdorf is located in the village of Witzelsdorf in the Eckartsau municipality in the Gänserndorf district in Lower Austria . It is consecrated to Saint Martin and is located in the Marchfeld deanery in the vicariate Unter dem Manhartsberg of the Archdiocese of Vienna . The building is under monument protection ( list entry ).
Location description
The church stands at the northern exit of the village on a slightly elevated site. The former fortified church is surrounded by a cemetery.
history
The parish was founded at the beginning of the 13th century. In 1755 the parish was rebuilt. Originally the church belonged to the district of the Passau parish of Gerlos, which was abandoned around 1400 and was the oldest parish in the area of today's Machfeld. After that the parish belonged to the Lilienfeld Abbey .
architecture
Church exterior
The church is a late Romanesque and early Gothic fortified church. The Romanesque nave dates from the middle of the 13th century. It was raised in baroque style . The west facade is kept simple and has arched windows. There are Romanesque arched windows on the nave. The nave has a mighty gable roof . The Romanesque choir is rectangular. A mighty Romanesque east tower rises above it . The Romanesque masonry extends to the sill on the third floor. The sound windows were added later. The tower is crowned by a four-sided pyramid helmet. The early Gothic choir from around 1300 adjoins the church tower. This has narrow one- and two-lane Gothic windows with three-pass tracery and Romanesque three-quarter columns with shield capitals instead of the buttresses. A sacristy and an entrance porch have recently been added to the south . In the north there is a Romanesque round arch portal with a strong rounded bulge.
Church interior
The Romanesque nave has a flat roof and shows baroque plastered fields from the first half of the 18th century. There is a surrounding cornice below the ceiling. The former Romanesque choir square is slightly elevated and vaulted with ribs . It rests on Romanesque consoles in the west corners and on early Gothic consoles in the east corners. The one-yoke choir ends in the 5/8 end. Above it is a ribbed vault with chalice capitals, which rests on bundles of three pillars on serrated consoles. In the choir there is a sacrament house and a small sessio niche on the south wall.
Furnishing
The high altar is a columnar altar from the first half of the 18th century. The altarpiece shows St. Martin. It was painted in the 20th century. The side figures represent Saints John the Baptist and Elizabeth . They were created in the 18th century. In the separation image is Trinity shown, the image was created in the 18th century.
The side altars are slightly curved column altars from the mid-18th century. The left side altar sheet is a picture of the needy help from the second half of the 18th century. The side figures represent Saints Leonhard and Florian . Saint Catherine is shown in the extract . The right side altarpiece shows Mary with child. In the extract is a picture of God the Father. On the altar there is a figure of St. Margaret of Cortona .
The remarkable pulpit dates from the third quarter of the 18th century. Figures of the apostles Peter and Paul are depicted on the basket , as well as a relief of the resurrection of Jesus. There is an apostle figure on the sound cover. In the church there is also a crucifix from the 16th century, a Baroque figure of St. Joseph from the 18th century and pictures of the Stations of the Cross from the second half of the 19th century.
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Weir system
The fortification around the church was first mentioned in a document in 1444. A rectangular churchyard wall with a curved south wall runs around the church. In the southeast corner there is a round arched gate with beveled stone walls. On the inside there is a tube for a transom. Next to the gate is a late baroque chapel from the 18th century.
literature
- DEHIO manual. The art monuments of Austria: Lower Austria. North of the Danube. Witzelsdorf. Parish church hl. Martin. Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.), Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-7031-0585-2 , p. 1298 f.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Lower Austria - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. (PDF), ( CSV ). Federal Monuments Office , status: 23 January 2019.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h DEHIO manual. The art monuments of Austria: Lower Austria. North of the Danube. Witzelsdorf. Parish church hl. Martin. Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.), Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-7031-0585-2 , p. 1298 f.
Coordinates: 48 ° 9 ′ 11.5 " N , 16 ° 50 ′ 8.6" E