St. Pankraz (Reinprechtspölla)
The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Pankraz in the Lower Austrian town of Reinprechtspölla is a Baroque-style building with a Romanesque core in the Horn deanery . The complex is surrounded by a baroque cemetery and, like the adjacent rectory , is a listed building .
history
The Reinprechtspölla parish existed before 1213 and was originally incorporated into the Klosterneuburg monastery. The nave of the church building, which supposedly emerged from a former castle chapel , was redesigned in Baroque style in 1706 and expanded to include a shallow transept and a choir with a northern sacristy between 1735 and 1737 according to plans by Donato Felice d'Allio under the direction of the builder Leopold Wißgrill . The masters Gabriel Steinböck and Johann Caspar Högl provided stone carvings . Tower, church and rectory were rebuilt in 1756 and renovated in 1853. In 1910 the nave was raised and vaulted. The architect Robert Kramreiter built the baptistery north of the main building in 1937 .
Exterior
The complex is accessible from the south through a square arched portal from around 1600. This has curbstones and a high wedge stone , chain slots and a walled-up door. A baroque gable niche with lateral volutes , vases and a figure of Maria Immaculata dates from the 18th century .
The north and south outer fronts have high, recessed arched windows with monastery bars and the choir has semicircular windows. On the south side there is a stone-walled portal, the door leaves of which are decorated with figural reliefs by the sculptor Hermann Musger from 1959. The transept is supported in the west by two struts from the beginning of the 20th century. A tower from 1756 rises above a barrel-vaulted passage, which serves as a vestibule to the west portal in the basement. Its three-storey structure with plastered fields, cartridge windows and coupled round-arched sound windows is crowned by a steep pointed helmet from 1910. A cartouche with a coat of arms of Klosterneuburg can be seen above the arch of the entrance , which is referred to as Provost Berthold, with "BPZ 1756".
The sacristy has windows with profiled stone walls. It has a tent roof . The baptistery has neo-Romanesque domed windows with twisted columns and basket capitals.
Interior
The single-aisled and two-bay nave with a double pilaster structure from around 1706 has, instead of the former flat ceiling, a needle cap barrel with double straps and a surrounding cornice from 1910. The choir and transept have barrel cap barrels on pilasters and circumferential, profiled entablature from around 1735. On a wide one The west gallery rests on the drawn-in barrel with side stitch caps. Above the sacristy is an oratory, accessible from a flight of stairs, with stone-framed, profiled windows with saddlebacks. The wedge stone bears a crowning coat of arms cartouche. The wedge of the sacristy portal with tendrils and rosettes and flame vases from around 1700 is labeled "JKPC". In the choir there are vault paintings with a depiction of the Last Supper and the three divine virtues, which were probably made by Karl Wallenberger around 1735, but were heavily painted over in 1908.
Facility
The high altar was made in the middle of the 18th century and renovated in 1937. Its baroque wall structure with flanking Corinthian columns and pilasters is adapted to the apse. The Christ monogram " IHS " looks down from the entablature in a cartridge attachment from a glory . The altarpiece , restored around 1873, depicts the Assumption of St. Pankraz . In the lower area the martyrdom of the saint and a vedute of the church can be seen. The altarpiece is flanked by figures of angels and figures of Saints Leopold and Florian from the third quarter of the 18th century. An earlier altarpiece of St. Augustine from the second half of the 17th century is now on the north wall of the choir. The side altar has a rococo tabernacle flanked by angels from around 1735 and a portrait of the holy clan from the second half of the 17th century. The stucco marble pulpit dates from the second quarter of the 18th century and has a good shepherd figure on the sound cover . In the choir and in the nave there are consoles (one of which is labeled "Johannes Schmalbeck and Anna Maria 1683") with figures of Maria Immaculata and Saints Paul (?), Barbara, Theresa, Johannes Nepomuk and Antonius von Padua . Other figures of Saints Sebastian and Rochus are in custody.
Further furnishings include a wooden pietà from the mid-20th century, the torture of St. Catherine on three reliefs from the second half of the 18th century, pictures of the Stations of the Cross from around 1900, a Rococo tombstone by Bernardus Webersinck from 1754 and a baptismal font with an inscription from the 16th century. In the sacristy there is a figure group of Mary with Jesus and John by the sculptor J. Rada from 1952.
The organ was made in 1969 and replaces the one from 1897.
Former cemetery
The tombstones, some of which are in relief, at the former cemetery are labeled with “1722”, “1761” and “1772”. A wrought iron cross, which rests on a stone base, dates from around 1700. Another wooden cemetery cross dates from the end of the 19th century. Larger-than-life figures of Saints are on the cemetery portal. Johannes Nepomuk and Franz Xaver from the middle of the 18th century can be seen. A tombstone from 1638 is walled into the rectory wall.
Rectory
The castle-like rectory, which was redesigned in Baroque style in 1756 by Leopold Wißgrill, is directly adjacent to the church. There are several remarkable pieces of architecture and sculptures in his park-like garden.
Web links
literature
- DEHIO Lower Austria north of the Danube . Berger, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-85028-395-3 , pp. 958ff.
Individual evidence
- ^ Karl Schütz: Austrian organ database . Retrieved August 11, 2012
Coordinates: 48 ° 36 '48.1 " N , 15 ° 45' 29.9" E