St. Anna in the field
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The Roman Catholic branch church St. Anna im Felde rises on a hill, surrounded by a stream, southeast of the Lower Austrian village of Pöggstall . The listed church is a late Gothic hall building with a steep roof, high Gothic choir and late Gothic north tower. It belongs to the Pöggstall parish and therefore to the Maria Taferl deanery . It was founded around 1135/1140 by the Kremsmünster Abbey and was first mentioned in a document in 1179. Until the parish elevation in 1330, it was a branch of vastness . In 1810 the parish function was transferred to the former castle church. After that, masses were occasionally read in St. Anna im Felde for about twenty years, followed by several decades of neglect and decay. Efforts have been made to preserve the church again since the end of the 19th century.
Exterior
The appearance of the church is characterized by its quarry stone walls and its mighty hipped roof . The nave is divided by buttresses with water hammer, its two- to three-lane pointed arched windows with rich fish-bladder and three-pass tracery, two richly braced shoulder arch portals from the late 15th century with pillars over diamond-coated and twisted plinths and a two-lane tracery window that breaks through the west wall between high buttresses.
The choir is significantly narrower and lower than the nave and compared to this slightly shifted to the north. Its pointed arch windows lie between buttresses and have rich two-lane tracery. The tower covered by a gable roof was built at the end of the 15th century. It has slotted arched windows and clover arched sound windows in deep soffits. South of the choir is a chapel from the same construction period as the tower, with a pent roof and high, three-lane tracery windows. The sacristy north of the choir, which is also covered with a pult, was probably added in the 17th century and has rectangular windows.
On the east wall of the chapel, a wall painting Christ on the Mount of Olives from the beginning of the 16th century was uncovered and restored in 1929 . On the north wall of the choir there is a fragment of another wall painting, which, however, is partly covered by the sacristy roof. On it is a representation of St. Christophorus from around 1500 can be seen.
Interior
The nave is a flat-roofed hall with a wooden ceiling that was renewed in 1965 and is divided into two naves of different widths by two columns. The torso of the late Gothic west gallery is open across the width of the three naves in three profiled pointed arches. Profiled rectangular portals lead to the former galleries in the north-west and south-west. A pointed triumphal arch leads to the strongly drawn-in, single-bay choir in continuation of the wider nave. This has a five-eighth crown and ribbed vault with two sculptured keystones. The chorus of a high ogival leads sheath sheet to slightly lower south side band, which is curved by delicate star ribs. In the south of the end of the choir there is a two-part session niche with strong tracery; in the north-east a rectangular sacrament niche with a crab-covered triangular gable flanked by turrets and decorated with leaves. The other sloping choirs have arched niches. In the north of the choir, a basket arch portal leads to the tower's ground floor. From there a shoulder arch portal leads to the one-yoke, groin-vaulted sacristy.
The procession of the Three Kings is depicted on wall paintings from the 14th century in the nave; in the choir Christ on the Mount of Olives, Christ before Pilate, crowning of thorns, flagellation and carrying the cross. The paintings are badly damaged.
Facility
Most of the furnishings come from the parish church and were transferred here in the 19th century. The high altar has a neo-Gothic retable with late Gothic relief figures from around 1480: Mary with child , flanked by Barbara and Katharina ; to the side Maria Magdalena and Anna herself third . On the back there is a walled-in marble cornice with a relief coat of arms of Chunrat Höltzler from 1450. The pulpit has a basket divided by columns and a rich pinnacle crowning on the sound cover.
Additional features include numerous notable grave monuments that were transferred from the parish church in 1953.
graveyard
The cemetery surrounding the church was expanded to the south in 1840 and in the 20th century. It is surrounded by a quarry stone wall and accessible through a round arched gate in the northeast. This has a richly profiled wall and a rectangular central attachment with a segmented arched niche.
Web links
literature
- DEHIO Lower Austria north of the Danube . Berger, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-85028-395-3 , pp. 888-890.
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 48 ° 18 ′ 40.5 " N , 15 ° 12 ′ 34.7" E