St. Anna (Pöggstall)
The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Anna in the Lower Austrian village of Pöggstall in the dean's office Maria Taferl is a two-aisled , apsidic , late Gothic hall church with a straight end and a neo-Gothic south tower. The listed church is connected to the adjoining castle by a bridge. It was built in 1480 as a castle church and stately burial place under Kaspar von Roggendorf . After the parish church of St. Anna in the field was closed, it was elevated to the status of the main church of the parish in 1810 and St. Consecrated to Anna . Before that she was under the patronage of St. Aegydius .
Exterior
The rectangular building is covered by a double hipped roof. Its circumferential base is tiered in the east, very high in the west and jumps into the moat . The exterior is structured by buttresses and two, three and five-lane pointed arch windows with quatrefoil and fish bubble tracery. From the western rectangular portal, a brick connecting bridge leads over the moat to the castle. In the past there was also a wooden bridge to the gallery. The neo-Gothic, two-storey south tower with pointed arched windows was built in 1810, has a pointed arched blind balustrade and two-lane sound windows with wooden tracery and is crowned by a tent roof. In the north there is a two-storey sacristy extension with a pent roof from around 1480 with barred rectangular windows and in the north-west there is a ground-level extension with a pent roof from the third quarter of the 20th century. In 1964 a wall painting of St. Christophorus from the beginning of the 16th century exposed. Two coats of arms can be seen on the side. In the entrance hall on the first floor of the tower there is a shoulder-arched portal with a crossed bar frame from around 1480.
Interior
The two-aisled and three-bay hall has ribbed vaults on two mighty bundle pillars over low plinths with profiled, pointed arches that are stepped on the east and west walls like a console.
The masonry, ribbed gallery from 1480 takes up half of the west yoke. It is open to the hall in four equally wide, profiled pointed arch arcades resting on eight-sided pillars. Its masonry parapet is divided into square fields. In the middle there is a low tower with a tracery. Above the central pillar there is a profiled, polygonal console and a shallow rectangular niche. Swinging brackets with bar profiles are located above the lateral pillars. The wooden galleries running along the side walls of the nave are structured by rectangular fields and in the north are provided with rich, differently openwork, carved tracery and a painted coat of arms of Rogendorf from the fourth quarter of the 15th century. The galleries in the south are provided with stylized plant ornaments and two coats of arms. A protruding wall pillar rises in the middle of the west wall. A round stair tower with a rectangular portal in a crossed bar frame is attached to the north above the gallery.
On the north side a rectangular portal leads to the barrel-vaulted sacristy . About 1900 three ogival oratory windows with a common sill were built in. In one of the southern nave windows two medieval glass windows that were restored in 1984/1985 have been preserved. The depiction of the two apostles ( St. John can be seen on the right ) dates from 1415, that of St. Wolfgang was created after the middle of the 15th century.
Gallery with organ
Northern gallery
Facility
The high altar is a remarkable late Gothic three-winged altar from the end of the 15th / beginning of the 16th century. It has a rectangular shrine with neo-Gothic tendril carvings from 1841. In the shrine there is a Gothic crucifixion group , consisting of the crucified Christ and Mary and John under the cross. The three kneeling angels who collect Christ's blood in goblets date from the second quarter of the 18th century. This crucifixion group was previously attached to the top of the shrine as an altar crown. The eight saints George, Vitus, Sebastian, Mauritius as well as Florian, Aegydius, Leonhard and Achatius are shown standing on the inside on painted double wings. The pictures outside show four scenes of the Passion of Christ : Christ before Pilate , the crowning of thorns , the flagellation and Ecce Homo . The coat of arms of the Rogendorf family can be seen on the left and right of the painted predella ; on the outside of the tabernacle doors Maria and Johannes, inside Maria Magdalena and Maria Salome .
The two corresponding, neo-Gothic side altars with tabernacle were mentioned in a document in 1847 and changed in 1966.
Statues from different eras stand on consoles. To the east, to the right of the high altar, there is a Gothic Anna-selbdritt group from around 1480, which comes from the top of the high altar of the former parish church St. Anna im Felde. To the left of the altar is a Gothic statue of the Madonna and Child on the crescent moon, which was made around 1500. On the center console of the west gallery is a Sacred Heart statue from the beginning of the 20th century; under the gallery the Hll. Antonius Eremita and Wendelin from the first half of the 18th century, renovated in 1842.
Other furnishings include brotherhood bars in front of the side pillars of the gallery, several (Stations of the Cross) pictures, the choir stalls from 1492, a holy water font from 1659, two lecture poles from the second half of the 19th century and a bell from the 14th century Century.
The organ was rebuilt in 1996 by Sebastian Blank. It has 2 manuals ( Rückpositiv and Hauptwerk) and a pedal with a total of 20 registers and was renovated in 2010 after a fungal attack.
Detail of the winged altar: the crucified
Detail of the winged altar: St. John
Anna-Selbdritt-Gruppe
Mary with child on the crescent moon
literature
- DEHIO Lower Austria north of the Danube . Berger, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-85028-395-3 , pp. 890f.
- Marianne Mehling (Ed.): Knaur's cultural guide in color - Wachau, Nibelungengau, Waldviertel . Droemer Knaur, Munich 1985.
Web links
- Entry on the Pöggstall parish church in the Austria Forum (chapter sacred buildings)
Individual evidence
- ^ Pöggstall (A). Rösel Orgelbau, Saalfeld (Thuringia), accessed on September 23, 2017 (information on disposition and restoration).
Coordinates: 48 ° 19 '4.6 " N , 15 ° 11' 57.4" E