St. Bartholomew (Pöbring)
The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Bartholomäus in the Lower Austrian village of Pöbring is a late Gothic building made of exposed quarry stone on a rock terrace west of the Schwarzaubach valley. The listed church was built around 1500. It has a low west tower that barely towers above the steep ridge of the nave.
history
The parish belongs to the deanery Maria Taferl . In the 12./13. In the 19th century, Pöbring was demonstrably a branch from wide. It was mentioned as a vicariate from 1334. In 1784 it was elevated to a parish. According to legend, there was a parish at this location in earlier times, which is said to have been dissolved after a plague epidemic and attached to the Weiten parish. Written evidence for the truth of this tradition is not known.
Exterior
The nave has a profiled base and a high, steep roof with a crested hip in the west and a stone cross in the east. The walls are supported by buttresses with water hammer. Two of them are provided with curved gable roofs on the south side. The pointed arch windows of the building partly have two-lane tracery. Some of them were enlarged in 1797. The church is accessible through two pointed arch portals with richly barbed walls and stone benches to the side. A stone rosette in relief can be seen above the southern portal. The retracted choir with a high, profiled base and a low half-hipped roof dates from around 1500. The west tower presented from the first quarter of the 16th century has an octagonal bell storey, a brick pyramid spire with a gable wreath, narrow slit windows and round-arched sound windows . On the south side of the choir there is also a two-storey sacristy extension from around 1500.
Interior
The nave from around 1500 originally had three naves and three yokes. In 1797 it was redesigned into a short hall room with undivided walls and a flat ceiling. The arched west gallery from the end of the 18th century has pilasters with profiled fighters and cornices. It is open to the hall in arched arcades. Behind the strongly drawn-in, profiled triumphal arch is the drawn-in, two-bay choir with a five-eighth end , the south wall of which is strongly off the axis. Its ribbed vault with keystones is in the front area of fluted and profiled consoles and at the end of round services. On the north side there is a rectangular sacraments niche with a gable and pinnacles in a multi-profiled frame. In the south, an arched shoulder portal with a barbed garment leads to the barrel-vaulted sacristy. A stained glass made by Josef Raukamp from the middle of the 20th century depicts St. Charles Borromeo .
Facility
The neo-Gothic high altar with wing structure is documented from 1867. It has a crucifix sculpture, flanked by painted representations of Mary and John. The two side altars are from more recent times. On the left there is a picture of Saints painted by Franz Maierhofer in 1865. To see Bartholomew.
The organ was built by Franz Capek in 1911. Other features include a pulpit from the 19th century, a painted board figure crucifix from the 18th century, pictures of the Way of the Cross from the 19th century, a small, Gothic sacrificial box that merges into an octagon over a square base, a late Gothic baptismal font and a neo-Gothic confessional from the second half of the 19th century. A remarkable Venetian panel painting can be seen on the south wall of the choir: Madonna between St. Jerome and John the Baptist . The work dates from 1500 and has a Renaissance frame with pilasters on the side in relief.
literature
- DEHIO Lower Austria north of the Danube . Berger, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-85028-395-3 , pp. 886f.
- Friedrich Schweickhardt: Representation of the Archduchy of Austria under the Enns . Volume 4., Vienna 1840, p. 304
Web links
- Entry on Parish Church Pöbring in the Austria-Forum (chapter sacred buildings)
Coordinates: 48 ° 15 ′ 32.9 ″ N , 15 ° 14 ′ 0.2 ″ E