Wolfsbach parish church
The parish church of St. Veit is a Roman Catholic church in the market town of Wolfsbach in the Amstetten district in Lower Austria .
history
A Carolingian hall church without a tower, probably from the 9th century, could be detected in the archaeological investigations in 2011. The pastoral care group Wolfsbach is mentioned in documents as early as 823 together with that of Aschbach . Both are therefore equal original parishes from the start. In 1109 a canon monastery was founded in the Wolfsbach parish, in 1112 the Benedictine monastery Seitenstetten , which in 1142 handed over the Wolfsbach parish to Bishop Reginbert von Passau . The massive west tower was erected in the 15th century, and today's chancel was consecrated in 1456. In 1486 there was a fire in the church, probably in the course of Matthias Corvinus' war . Finally around 1500 the nave was expanded into a late Gothic hall. In 1517, Seitenstetten Abbey was incorporated into the parish.
Structurally, the church was baroque in the 18th century and re- Gothicized with Matthäus Schlager from 1908 to 1909 . The last restoration of the interior of the church took place in 2011, the last exterior restoration was in 2003.
architecture
The church is surrounded by a cemetery and is slightly elevated in the center of Wolfsbach. The late Gothic hall church with an exposed west tower and a retracted polygonal choir has some later additions. The facade is uniformly plastered and shows two-lane neo-Gothic tracery windows between stepped buttresses with renewed cover plates. The nave under a gable roof has extensions on both sides and in the south a groin vaulted entrance porch under a pent roof with a late Gothic profiled pointed arch opening.
Inside the vestibule is a simple portal to the gallery from the construction period 1908/1909 and a triple-barred shoulder portal with a rich neo-Gothic door leaf as the main entrance to the nave under the gallery.
In the north of the nave there is a simple extension from the construction period 1908/1909 with a stone-walled portal. The south aisle has a late Gothic windowless triangle closure.
On the north aisle to the east is the two-storey sacristy extension from the construction period 1908/1909 with pointed arch windows with wrought-iron tracery bars. There are also small arched portal porches from the construction period 1908/1909 in the north and south. In the corner of the nave there is a neo-Gothic polygonal stair tower. The late Gothic choir with a five-eighth end under a steep roof has a masonry dormer window from 1833 in the east and a surrounding cornice on the polygon.
The late Gothic tower, which is square at the bottom and octagonal at the top, is closed to the west and otherwise has irregularly arranged pointed arch windows and nostrils with push-in grilles. Sound windows with tracery are installed above the tower clock. The tower closes with a squat, neo-baroque helmet with a hooded lantern over the onion hood from 1833.
The interior of the church has rich ribbed vaults and newly uncovered seating and reliquary niches from the late Gothic period. The marble tombstone of the knight Wolfgang von Meilersdorf is reminiscent of a great sponsor of the late Gothic church construction. Beautiful statues and the organ case from the Baroque period have been preserved, the rest of the furnishings (windows, doors, altars, pulpit, stations of the cross, dining grilles , church chairs, eternal lights) were renewed in 1908/09 and represent a beautiful neo-Gothic ensemble.
In 2011 the interior of the church was thoroughly renovated and the sanctuary was liturgically reorganized. Folk altar and ambo made of white Albanian marble by Josef Colz take up the form of the late Gothic vaulted sails of the church interior and the "V" as the first letter of the church patron Vitus.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria south of the Danube 2003 . Wolfsbach, parish church St. Veit, pp. 2727-2729.
- Jacobus table: St. Veit in Wolfsbach . Church leaders. 2012.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 4 ′ 45.3 " N , 14 ° 40 ′ 8.8" E