Parish Church of St. Peter im Moos
The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Peter im Moos , also called St. Peter am Moos , in the Lower Austrian village of Muthmannsdorf is partly built in the Romanesque - Gothic style, has frescoes from the Middle Ages and is located about half a kilometer southwest of the town center.
The church is consecrated to Saints Peter and Paul and has belonged to the Neunkirchen dean's office of the Archdiocese of Vienna since September 1st, 2016 . Before that she was part of the dean's office in Wiener Neustadt .
Parish of St. Peter
The founding of the parish is not clearly recorded in a document, but in 1220 the parish was first clearly mentioned in a document. In 1254 Ottokar II handed over the parish to Bishop Ulrich I of Seckau . In 1358 it was exchanged for the Seckau Abbey and in 1662 they sold it with Strelzhof Castle to the Neukloster Abbey in Wiener Neustadt. In 1783, in the course of the Josephine reforms, Muthmannsdorf was separated from Maiersdorf (Hohe Wand community) and raised to the status of an independent parish. Since 1881, when the union of the pins Neukloster and Heiligenkreuz took place, the parish is the Heiligenkreuz incorporated .
The parish includes the cadastral parishes of Muthmannsdorf and Emmerberg (municipality of Winzendorf-Muthmannsdorf ) as well as the cadastral parishes of Gaaden and Stollhof, which belong to the municipality of Hohe Wand and in which the subsidiary church Maria, Queen of Peace (built in 1970) is located.
Building history
The sacred building was essentially built in three construction phases. The square tower, the ground floor of which is now used as the people's sanctuary, was built in the Romanesque period. The exact measurement of the church axis showed a kink , with the axis of the nave aligning with the sunrise on the feast day of Peter and Paul (June 29), while the choir is oriented on the 9th Sunday after Pentecost (July 19) of the year 1136.
The east-facing presbytery , single-bay and with a 5/8 end , comes from the Gothic building era (roof structure dendrochronologically dated 1490). The simple nave dates from the Baroque period and around two thirds of it is built over the foundations of a Romanesque building.
On the north side of the tower is the Karner chapel , also known as the confessional and baptistery, which was originally Romanesque and was rebuilt in Gothic style around 1437. Below the chapel there is an early Gothic ossuary that can be seen through a floor window.
In 1937/1939 the church was renovated and the frescoes in the church tower were discovered. In 1985/1989 the church was restored and excavated. During this restoration, the pews and the people's altar with the ambo were newly acquired and the floor was renewed with Engelsberg marble .
painting
The medieval wall painting in the choir square dates from the middle of the 13th century; it was discovered and exposed in 1939. The center of the frescoes is the Lamb of God and based on this the twelve apostles are represented in four groups of three. On the vaulted feet are the four evangelist symbols man (Matthew), eagle (John), bull (Luke) and lion (Mark) as well as diamonds and medallions with the heads of bishops and saints in the archway.
In the Karner chapel there are frescoes from the end of the 13th century. A scene from St. Martin and bishops are depicted in the entrance arch, angels in the vault and four passion scenes on the north wall .
The glass painting in the nave was made in the early 1940s by the 1st Tyrolean Glass Painting and Mosaic Company Innsbruck , that of the choir around 1905 by the Viennese glass painter A. Seipl.
Facility
From the former baroque high altar, which was removed in 1900, the two console figures of St. Joachim and Anna , who are placed between the Gothic windows in the presbytery . A late baroque crucifix hangs over the stone altar .
The left side altar is dated 1667 and shows the plague saint Sebastian in the central shell niche .
The right side altar is a baroque columned altar around 1700 with a copy of the "Muthmannsdorfer Madonna" (the original was made around 1430 and was stolen in 1968).
The organ was made by the Krems organ builder Franz Capek (1860–1938) at the beginning of the 20th century and has nine registers.
Interior view towards the altar
Interior view towards the gallery
The 13th century frescoes in the choir square
The Gothic sacrament niche in the presbytery
literature
- Church leader St. Peter am Moos
- Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.): Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Lower Austria, south of the Danube. Part 2, Verlag Berger, Horn / Wien 2003, page 1512 f., ISBN 3-85028-365-8
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Erwin Reidinger: Orientation of medieval churches . In: Office of the Lower Austrian State Government (Ed.): Gestalte (n). The magazine for building, architecture and design . N ° 139, March 2013, p. 44 ( noe-gestalten.at [accessed on April 26, 2017]). ZDB ID 2708987-3
Coordinates: 47 ° 50 ′ 4 ″ N , 16 ° 6 ′ 3.8 ″ E