Heidenreichstein parish church
The parish church of Heidenreichstein is a Roman Catholic church that is consecrated to Saint Margaret and is located west of the town square of Heidenreichstein .
geography
The Heidenreichstein parish is responsible for the town of Heidenreichstein with the districts of Kleinpertholz and Wielandsberg as well as the villages of Altmanns , Thaures with Neuthaures, Eberweis , Dietweis and Motten . The neighboring parish in Seyfrieds has been looked after by the parish Heidenreichstein since 1987.
history
History of the parish
The original parish of Heidenreichstein was created at the end of the 12th or beginning of the 13th century through the building of a separate church of the Heidenreichstein manor at the same time. Although in the following centuries the patronage of the church was retained by the sovereign, it was always exercised by the respective owners of the Heidenreichstein rule.
In 1297 Heidenreichstein was considered one of the wealthiest parishes in the Waldviertel , as it was a so-called Zehentpfarre with real estate and its own lower jurisdiction. The branch parishes Rottenschachen, Zuggers and Seyfrieds also belonged to it.
At the beginning of the 14th century, Seyfrieds left the parish and, like Rottenschachen and Zugger's later, became an independent parish. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the parish of Heidenreichstein belonged to the provosts of Eisgarn .
Noteworthy are the pilgrimages on " Good Shepherd Sunday " and on Ascension Day to the pilgrimage church of the "Good Shepherd" in Eberweis as well as the measurement licenses in Altmanns, Dietweis, Thaures and Motten.
History of the parish church
- Building
The parish church of Heidenreichstein emerged from a formerly Romanesque basilica . The church has a late Gothic choir and a nave with a flat ceiling. The presbytery and the southern part of the church with the Gothic portal date from the second half of the 15th century. A two-bay choir with a 5/8 end was added to the Romanesque nave . The star ribs of the vault sit high on button consoles. The church originally had a roof turret in which the bells were housed instead of its own steeple. In 1621 the church and many houses in the village burned down. From 1628 to 1631 the nave of the church was rebuilt.
In 1753 the foundation stone was laid for the construction of the baroque church tower, which was completed in 1755. When building the tower, a Gothic cross-ribbed window was bricked up and two pointed arch windows were replaced by rectangular windows. The tower dome with the tower cross has two transverse beams. The church tower is 42 meters high, making it the tallest structure in Heidenreichstein. The roof was originally covered with wooden shingles, which were later replaced with tinplate that was painted red. In 1792 the tower received a tower clock for the first time and in 1806 a tower cross with a 1/4 bucket ball.
The last major renovation of the parish church took place in 1988, both outside and inside.
- Bells
The oldest of the church bells dates from 1666. In the church tower, completed in 1755, there were four bells weighing 8, 5, 3 and 1 hundredweight. In 1823 all bells with the exception of the old bell from 1666 were cast. In 1886 a broken bell was replaced, but its sound did not match the other bells.
During the First World War , all bells, again with the exception of the old bell from 1666, had to be delivered and the parish church of Heidenreichstein only had this one bell until 1930. The bells purchased in 1930 weighed 709, 281 and 54 kilograms. In 1942, all bells including the old bell from 1666, but only the 54 kilogram death bell, had to be delivered due to the war. In 1946 the bell from 1666, believed to be lost forever, was found in Vienna and brought back to Heidenreichstein. In 1953 the peal was supplemented by three bells weighing 720, 300 and 180 kilograms. The parish church has had five bells since 1953.
- Interior decoration
The parish church of Heidenreichstein has three baroque altars. The high altar was built in 1760. The tumba and tabernacle were renovated in 1839 with contributions from the community. The two side altars replaced the older ones from 1663 in 1764.
The interior of the church was renovated in 1847 and 1848 and received a new way of the cross and two altarpieces for the side altars and a high altarpiece. The three altarpieces are by Ludwig Ferdinand Schnorr von Carolsfeld . A Gothic sacrificial stock and the baroque pulpit with the figure of the “Good Shepherd” are remarkable in the church .
In the church there is also a monstrance ( ostensorium ) from 1512, which is of the finest Gothic work. It is privately owned by the local parish because it was triggered by silver money when it was ordered to be delivered.
- Organs
An organ with 11 registers built in 1768 by an organ builder in Datschitz in Moravia was fundamentally repaired in 1872. The organ built by Franz Capek in Krems in 1904 received a new tin prospectus in 1917 and was overhauled in 1963 by Karl Schönhofer.
In 1989 a new organ with 16 registers was commissioned from the Rieger company from Schwarzach , Vorarlberg , and inaugurated in 1993.
literature
- Erich Geppert, Karl Pichler: 800 years of Heidenreichstein, Waldviertel - culture and history , self-published, Heidenreichstein 2005
- Alfred Wittig and Gerhard Uitz: Festschrift Church and Parish Heidenreichstein , publisher: Parish Heidenreichstein, Heidenreichstein 1993
- Alfred Wittig: Festschrift 50 Years of the City of Heidenreichstein 1932 - 1982 , publisher: Stadtgemeinde Heidenreichstein, Gmünd 1982, with the following articles:
- Alfred Wittig: historical part
- Johann Sidl: Church and Parish
Web links
Coordinates: 48 ° 51 ′ 56.3 " N , 15 ° 7 ′ 18.5" E
Individual evidence
- ^ M. Haja: Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Ludwig Ferdinand (1788-1853), painter. Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815-1950, Vol. 10, Lfg. 50, 1994, p. 416