St. Stephan (Rieggers)

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Rieggers parish church

The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Stephan in the Lower Austrian village of Rieggers is slightly elevated on the Angerrand and is surrounded by a former cemetery. Rieggers was already a vicariate in the 13th century and has been a parish since the end of the 15th century. She belongs to the Deanery Zwettl . The former Romanesque choir tower church was rebuilt into a Gothic hall church in the first half of the 15th century and changed to Baroque style in the second half of the 18th century . A Romanesque charnel house nearby was demolished at the end of the 18th century. The listed church was thoroughly renovated in 2003-2006.

Exterior

The nave, which is essentially Romanesque, received arched windows in the second half of the 18th century. On the north side you can still see Romanesque windows and a massive buttress, which is believed to be dated to the 15th century. The dominant Romanesque tower rises on the east side. Its arched windows were created at the end of the 18th century and the crowning pointed helmet probably in the 19th century. The Gothic choir (1st half of the 14th century) is polygonal and has buttresses as well as a bricked-up Gothic tracery window in the east and renewed pointed arch windows on the north and south sides. Today's sacristy building south of the nave - with a three-sided end and pointed arched windows - was originally built as a chapel. Adjacent to this is the old sacristy, which is now used as a vestibule. It is essentially Romanesque and was later extended. To the north of the tower is a chapel extension from the second half of the 18th century with arched windows.

Interior

The nave was rebuilt in the first half of the 15th century to its current form as a three-aisled, four-bay hall with ribbed vaults over slender eight-sided pillars. A three-aisled and two-bay western gallery rises on pillars. Its western yoke has a late Gothic net and cross-ribbed vaulting, while the eastern yoke with its square vault was only added in the 18th century. A pointed triumphal arch leads from the nave to the equally wide choir, which has a three-eighth end and a ribbed vault with a round keystone. The tower ground floor has a ribbed vault with a round keystone and probably dates back to the 13th century. On its south side it is connected to the single-bay and cross-vaulted sacristy by a Gothic door with a flat cloverleaf arch. On its north side there is a wide opening to the square vaulted, baroque north chapel. The old sacristy / today's vestibule and the oratory above are vaulted with a stitch cap.

In 1954, remarkable Gothic wall paintings from the second quarter of the 14th century were uncovered on the choir wall and the arches: On the northern pillar St. John and Stephen; in the arches medallions with prophets and sibyls ; on the choir wall Christ and the twelve apostles, although this image was partially destroyed by a fire and the enlargement of the window.

Also noteworthy are the stained glass marked "1924" depicting St. Peter and Paul .

Facility

The neo-baroque high tabernacle altar is decorated with a baroque figure of St. Stephen and side figures of Sts. Joseph and Johannes Nepomuk from the second half of the 18th century; the neo-Gothic side altar with a baroque figure of Mary and Child from the beginning of the 18th century and late baroque side figures of St. Donatus and Florian. Like the high altar, the pulpit is a neo-baroque work. In 1880 the church received an organ from Josef Breinbauer . Other furnishings include a figure of Sorrows of Sorrows from the second half of the 18th century, an eight-sided Gothic baptismal font from the 15th century and a grave slab in the side chapel on the reliefs of two crowned nappies and the name "Schallenberg 1651" are.

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  1. ↑ Rieggers parish church shines in new splendor. In: zwettl.at. City of Zwettl-Niederösterreich, November 17, 2006, accessed on September 16, 2019 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 38 '1.3 "  N , 15 ° 4' 16.8"  E