St. Katharina (Langenzersdorf)
St. Katharina is the Roman Catholic parish church in the Langenzersdorf community in Lower Austria . It is an early Gothic church that was later converted to Baroque style.
history
Langenzersdorf originally belonged to the Klosterneuburg monastery parish. The church in Langenzersdorf was first mentioned in documents in 1323, and in 1326 it was elevated to a parish church. In 1403 it was incorporated into Klosterneuburg Abbey . Renovations to the church were necessary several times, for example in 1683 after a fire, in 1709 after a flood, in 1749 after an earthquake and also in 1756. Renovations were carried out by Karl Schömer in 1900–1902, in 1926 and 1960.
Building description
The Katharinenkirche is a three-aisled staggered basilica under a uniform roof and dates from the early 14th century. The central nave is pulled forward a little and has a simple facade with bricked-up pointed arched windows. In addition, at the transition to the south aisle, there is an octagonal stair tower with an onion helmet from 1902, which is, however, essentially medieval. A pointed arch window is still visible on the south aisle, otherwise the church today has round arched windows. In 1708 a Lady Chapel was added to the south aisle. A three-storey tower from 1708 rises up from the single-bay choir, which is also essentially medieval. After a fire in 1817 the tower was renewed. The bell storey with the clock gable is late baroque, the rich onion helmet from 1902. The adjoining sacristy also dates from around 1708. On the outside of the church there is a half-length figure of a Man of Sorrows from the beginning of the 16th century and tombstones, including a classicist tomb with a mourning figure from 1828.
The four-bay central nave of the church was redesigned in Baroque style after 1683. It has groin vaults over belts on pilaster strips and round arched pillar arcades. The organ gallery in the western yoke shows a neo-baroque wooden parapet. The western yokes of the three-bay aisles still have ribbed vaults, while the other bays have baroque square vaults . The south aisle was built around 1300, the north aisle as a symmetrical addition in the 1st quarter of the 14th century. The former Gothic choir was changed around 1700 to a square choir bay with a semicircular apse and stucco (around 1740/50).
The high altar, which was added to the apse around 1710/13, is based on a design by Matthias Steinl , and was changed around 1749. The altarpiece shows the beheading of Catherine of Alexandria and is a copy of the original painting by Johann Georg Schmidt that was destroyed in 1749 . A Mariahilf - miraculous image is as a front screen on the high altar . The side altars date back to 1720. In the north aisle of the beheading revered as a saint is on the altar Saint Barbara represented, plastic side figures show Sebastian and Rochus of Montpellier , a Sarkophargschrein the hl. Leopold . In the south aisle the altar has a figure from the 17th century depicting Mary with the child, alongside side figures of the legendary parents of Mary, Joachim and Anna, and console statues of St. Leopold Leopolds and his wife Agnes . Further altars from the mid-18th century are on the wall of the north aisle and in the Marienkapelle. The pulpit with richly carved decoration also dates from the middle of the 18th century. A series of pictures with canonized people from the Augustinian order in the central nave is marked 1766. A large oil painting from the beginning of the 17th century shows Catherine in front of the Madonna and Child. It was acquired from the Liechtenstein Collection in 1926 and was attributed to Annibale Carracci . Other pieces of equipment are late baroque.
During the general renovation in 1901 and 1902, the tower was given a new, baroque-style helmet; since the fire in 1817, a pyramid-shaped helmet had formed the top. The top of the tower cross is 39.8 m above the ground. At about the same time, a new sacristy was added to the tower in the southeast . The stucco work on the ceiling of the sacristy comes from the Langenzersdorf ceramist Eduard Klablena . In 1926 the electric light was introduced. In April 2006 the church received a new way of the cross with figures from Val Gardena in South Tyrol.
Bells
The oldest, still preserved bell dates from 1721. It weighs only 40 kg and is the train bell (death bell). This richly decorated bell bears the image of Mary accompanying the dying on one side and the image of St. Dismas .
The bells had melted during the fire of 1817. New bells were purchased in 1862 and 1902, and these were confiscated and melted down during the First World War. In 1921 and 1926 new bells were hung in the tower, which fell victim to the Second World War in 1942. In 1950, the new bells that have been preserved to this day could be purchased.
literature
- Evelyn Benesch, Bernd Euler-Rolle , Claudia Haas, Renate Holzschuh-Hofer, Wolfgang Huber, Katharina Packpfeifer, Eva Maria Vancsa-Tironiek, Wolfgang Vogg: Lower Austria north of the Danube (= Dehio-Handbuch . Die Kunstdenkmäler Österreichs ). Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna et al. 1990, ISBN 3-7031-0652-2 , p. 648-649 .
- 900 years of Langenzerdorf. History and local history Edited by Franz Karl Schwarzmann, with contributions by Josef Germ and Erich Gusel. 2008
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Coordinates: 48 ° 18 ′ 30.8 ″ N , 16 ° 21 ′ 41.8 ″ E