City parish church Gallneukirchen
The Roman Catholic parish church of Gallneukirchen is a listed building in Gallneukirchen in the Mühlviertel . The main church of the city of Gallneukirchen is slightly elevated to the northwest of the market square and is dedicated to St. Gall .
history
As early as around the year 900, a wooden church is believed to have replaced today's church. Presumably, there was a separate parish in Gallneukirchen as early as the 9th century, which had already separated from the mother parish in Linz and is therefore one of the oldest parishes in today's Mühlviertel. The church was first mentioned in 1180 and the parish mentioned in 1125 had a large area at that time. A Romanesque stone church was built in the 12th and 13th centuries, the foundations of which were discovered during the renovation in 2006/07.
Due to the population growth in the region, an early Gothic building was built over the small stone church. The church was completed around 1400 and was the size it is today. The tower of the church was the last to be completed. In 1622 and 1773 part of the church fell victim to the fire. Structural changes followed the fires. After a baroque cross altar was donated in 1730, a new pulpit and a new high altar followed shortly thereafter in 1770. The fire in 1773 affected the church roof and the steeple. Until 1877 the church had a pyramid-shaped emergency roof. In 1890/91 the cemetery, which was previously located around the church, was relocated.
In 1909 a renovation took place with the aim of regotisation. The galleries and the sacristy were built in the Gothic style as early as 1888 and 1892 . In 1909 the renovation continued, so new benches and side altars were purchased, the gallery was extended and a new organ was installed. In the 1950s and 1960s the side altars were redesigned in Baroque style. In the 1970s, the aisle roofs were raised. In 1981 the artist Alois Dorn designed the so-called Gallustor in bronze and a mosaic picture of the church patron. The last general renovation took place in 2006/2007.
Church interior
The church is a Gothic three-aisled , five-bay pillar basilica with a pointed arch window and tracery . The central nave is higher than the aisles and the chancel is inclined slightly to the right. The five-aisled west gallery shapes the space and includes all three aisles and has been in the 14th century style again since the renovation. The side altars were redesigned in 1968, the left is the baptismal altar and the right is the Marian altar. The baptismal altar shows the baptism of Christ in an acanthus frame. The Marien altar shows a baroque figure of Mary .
The pulpit from the 1730s has a sound cover with an angel holding two tablets with the ten commandments. The high altar from 1770 is dominated by the altar painting by the artist Johann Georg Tompke , which shows the church patron Gallus. The structure is in the Rococo style with side figures of Saints Aegidius and Elisabeth . The essay shows the Trinity.
The choir has two bays with a 5/8 end and has a ribbed vault. To the north of the choir is the square tower and the sacristy. South of the choir is the south chapel. To the east of the south chapel is the Ölberg chapel.
The organ is by Leopold Breinbauer and was installed in 1909. The organ has a pneumatic action with two manubriums and 20 stops.
Church exterior
The nave has buttresses and the so-called Gallus Gate from 1981 is located on the western front. The galleries are strongly protruding neo-Gothic additions. The Gothic main portal in the south has a keel- arched reveal . The choir also has buttresses and two-lane tracery windows. The sacristy has round and pointed arch windows.
Steeple
The five-zone Gothic tower has neo-Gothic ogival tracery windows behind which the bells are hidden. The baroque onion helmet dates from 1877, the sundial from 1600.
Of the bells bought in 1773 , only the death bell, the Barbara bell , has survived to this day ; the others had to be given in during the world wars. Today's bells were cast by Oberascher in Salzburg in 1949 .
See also
literature
- Federal Monuments Office Austria (Ed.): Dehio - Upper Austria Mühlviertel . Berger Verlag, Horn / Vienna 2003, ISBN 978-3-85028-362-5 , pp. 197ff
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Coordinates: 48 ° 21 ′ 11 " N , 14 ° 24 ′ 56" E