St. Michael (Burgschleinitz)
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The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Michael in Burgschleinitz in Lower Austria consists of a Romanesque nave, baroque from 1728 , a late Gothic west tower and a retracted, early Gothic choir. In the 12th century it served as the Lords von Schleunz's own church . In 1223 it was the seat of a deanery . Later it was incorporated into the Horn deanery . The church, like the adjacent cemetery with its Gothic charnel house , is a listed building .
Exterior
The lower part of the nave sides consists of Romanesque stone-faced brick masonry from the 12th century. The regular quarry stone layers from the vault zone with three baroque arched windows each originate from the renovation between 1728 and 1732. The northern counterpart to the Romanesque arched frieze with accompanying notched band on the south side was destroyed by an extension. The church has a grooved, baroque eaves cornice . On the south side there are three walled-in Romanesque arched windows with grooved walls ; the window on the right has a stop groove. The Romanesque south portal is also bricked up. This has semicircular columns with cube capitals and an inner stone frame with a triangular gable. Above that there is a round arch with ashlar stones in the arch field. A round window can be seen on the west wall, made from one block.
The one-bay choir with five-eighth closure was built towards the end of the 13th century. It has buttresses with a gable top and a water hammer. The three pointed arched choir windows have red lines on the reveals. The arched window in the south comes from the Baroque era.
The late Gothic tower consists of cut and quarry stone masonry with local stones and regular ashlar layers in the middle zone. It was raised in the baroque era and equipped with arched sound windows and a bell roof. On the south side it is broken through by overlapping windows and in the west by a cross hatch. Above the tower portal, which is equipped with a profiled garment, there is a multiple kinked cornice roofing on volute consoles and with a rosette-set wedge and a figure of St. Michael over defeated devil.
To the north of the choir is a two-storey extension with a monopitch roof, partly Romanesque outer walls, a bricked-up arched window and a profiled, stone-clad window from 1774. To the north of the nave there is a barrel-vaulted, single-storey extension with a lateral connection to the sacristy and a gable wall drawn over the ridge richly framed baroque arched windows with angels' heads and garland decoration in the arched field. Above it is a straight profiled roof and a broken basket arch gable with a profiled suspected aedicule top with a shell and a pietà from the 17th century. On a pedestal in the northern corner of the tower stands a group of figures, Anna teaches Maria, dated 1758 .
Interior
The square vault of the nave rests on a three-part cornice with beveled corners and has lunette fields with three arched windows each from around 1730 and oval medallions in the crown and in the spandrels . The three-axis west gallery has a groined vault on square pillars with profiled capitals. A brick parapet with pilaster strips dates from the first half of the 18th century and the wooden gallery grille from the end of the 19th century.
The choir is increased by two levels. Its polychromed ribbed vault rises above fluted consoles and has rosette-like polychromed keystones. The roots and crowns of the vaulted caps are decorated with vegetable paintings from the second half of the 15th century. On the south wall and on the southeast slope, fragmented frescoes from the end of the 14th century were uncovered in 1909. The depiction shows the Annunciation to the Shepherds and a saint martyrdom, which probably shows the story of Erasmus of Antioch . The frescoes have been partially destroyed by installing baroque windows. On the north side of the choir and the nave, a stone-walled portal leads to the sacristy or an anteroom from around 1730. On the south side, the nave opens outwards through a bricked-up Romanesque portal with a round arched coronation from the second half of the 12th century. A glazed oratory in the north of the choir, on a wide flat console with garland decoration, plaster field decoration in the inner reveals and vase attachments dates from 1774. The groin-vaulted basement of the tower was built towards the end of the 14th century. Inside there is a baroque rectangular portal. The sacrament niche with iron plate doors and wrought iron decorations on the east wall of the choir was made in the second half of the 18th century. The newer glazing of the choir with an ornamental window in the south is marked with 1908.
Facility
The high altar , built towards the end of the 19th century, is a neo-Gothic winged altar with a canopy . Its stucco marble side altars with flanking columns, vases over blown beams and stone altar niches have altar pictures by Josef Kessler from 1858 with depictions of the shepherds and St. Sebastian . The folk altar on a bevelled baluster and bulbous bowl dates from the first half of the 17th century . The wooden pulpit was made in 1774 and is decorated with gilded festoons and leaf decorations, scales and rosettes on the basket. On the cover is a putto with a book. The baptismal font , a bulged bowl on a baluster, dates from around 1600 and the pews from the second half of the 19th century. In the hall there is a drum-shaped offertory box , which is labeled "..84" and can probably be dated to the late 17th century. The holy water stoup dates from 1730. On the north wall of the nave is the tombstone of Sebastian Bierbaum von Zogelsdorf and Barbara, which is decorated with a keel-arch frame with looped tracery on bases, scrollwork coats of arms and inscriptions in scrollwork framing. Above the coat of arms is a priest bust from 1565. A sarcophagus with a volute top with a relief of the Mount of Olives scene in a flat arch frame and a Memento-Mori inscription , marked 1732, rises on a volute top in the side room of the sacristy .
The bell was made by Jakob de Romet in 1708. The organ is a work by Gregor Hradetzky from 1933.
literature
- DEHIO Lower Austria north of the Danube . Berger, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-85028-395-3 , pp. 86f.
Web links
- Entry on St. Michael (Burgschleinitz) in the Austria Forum (chapter sacred buildings)
Coordinates: 48 ° 36 ′ 21.1 ″ N , 15 ° 48 ′ 55.3 ″ E