Reichersberg Abbey and Parish Church
The Reichersberg Collegiate Church of the Augustinian Canons - Reichersberg Monastery is dedicated to St. Michael and forms part of the monastery complex in the market town of Reichersberg in Upper Austria . The Roman Catholic collegiate church also serves as the parish church of the Reichersberg parish and in this capacity belongs to the Altheim dean's office in the Linz diocese . The collegiate church is a listed building .
history
One church was consecrated in 1126. After a fire, a new building was built in 1629 with the master builder Christoph Weiß from Ried im Innkreis, which was consecrated in 1644. In 1774 the tower collapsed. From 1774 to 1777 a new building was carried out with the master bricklayer Blasius Aichinger, the tower was moved to the west, so that the nave could be extended. The organ gallery was built with the nave.
architecture
The simple single-nave four-bay nave has a barrel vault with small stitch caps. Four deep side chapels are built on the north side. There are no chapels on the south side because the church building is directly connected to the cloister and an overlying corridor of the convent of the Reichersberg monastery. The retracted one-and-a-half-bay choir has a semicircle. The wall pilasters are flat. The three-axis west gallery looks delicate. The west tower with a dome and lantern shows the indication 1777.
Furnishing
lobby
The church vestibule has a ceiling painting by Christian Wink from 1778. It shows Moses in front of the burning bush. The marble portal was created by the Salzburg stonemason Jakob Mösel (1775). In the entrance area there is the war memorial of the parish of Reichersberg as well as a memorial plaque for the members of the Reichersberg volunteer fire department. The wrought iron gate at the entrance to the collegiate church is from 1765 and was restored and dated 1775.
Longhouse
You enter the nave from the vestibule through the entrance below the west gallery. The niche statue of St. Michael created Josef Bergler the Elder from Passau (1775). Above the Lourdes Chapel is a window of the prelate oratory. Rococo confessional and above it a picture of St. Florian around 1700 in a Rococo frame.
The remarkable baroque pulpit from 1718 in the style of Josef Matthias Götz from Passau was restored in 1955.
A large painting Liberation of Peter from the Caravaggio School hangs in a richly carved frame by Thomas Schwanthaler (1702).
Three rococo confessionals are set into the nave wall. The pews are rococo.
The Stations of the Cross are from 1864. Neo-Gothic statue from 1888
Side chapels
The four side chapels are built on the north side of the nave.
Chapel of St. Augustine
The chapel contains a rococo stucco marble altar by Johann Baptist Modler from Kößlarn, the altarpiece with a depiction of St. Augustine comes from Johann Unruhe (1766). In this chapel there is a remarkable Gothic donor grave stone made of red marble with a full-figure relief of Wernher 1086 with a church model and his wife Dietburga and their son Gebhard under a canopy. It is the original cover plate of a high grave around 1470.
Chapel of St. Joseph
The chapel also contains a rococo stucco marble altar by Johann Baptist Modler from Kößlarn, the altarpiece of St. Josef comes from Rudolf Wernicke (1946) and is a copy of the painting by Martino Altomonte in the episcopal house chapel in Linz.
Chapel of St. Simon and Jude
The chapel also contains a Rococo stucco marble altar by Johann Baptist Modler from Kößlarn around 1760/1765. The altarpiece with the apostles Simon and Judas Thaddäus comes from Kolbinger (1763).
The body of the catacomb saint Claudius has been kept in a shrine on an altar since 1709 . It was raised from the Kalixtus catacombs in 1668 and finally came into the possession of the then Auxiliary Bishop of Passau in Vienna, Johann Joachim Ignaz Count of Aham. After his death, the relics were donated by his heir Johann Franz Graf von Aham for the Aham's crypt chapel in the collegiate church.
The crypt under this chapel served as the burial place of the noble Aham family (last burial in 1881), since a renovation in 1975, the provosts of Reichersberg are buried here.
There is also a rococo confessional and above it the picture of St. Francis from the 18th century.
Chapel of St. Sebastian and Rochus
The chapel contains the Sebastian and Rochus altars made of red marble, created by Jakob Mösel from Salzburg (1775), the altarpiece was painted by Joseph Bergler the Younger (1775). There is also a rococo confessional and above it the image of Christ preaching in the temple from the second half of the 18th century.
Choir
The choir stalls were built around 1700. The picture hl. Nikolaus von Johann Kendlpacher (1700) was transferred here from the demolished Reichersberg Church of Our Lady.
The left side altar in baroque forms around 1840/1850 shows the image of Christ being deposed from the cross . The right side altar as on the left shows the image of the Assumption .
The baroque high altar from 1713 has an early baroque statue of the Virgin Mary from the first half of the 17th century. The tabernacle is from 1834. The altar sheet Engelsturz painted by Karl Rahl (1834) and was partly painted over.
Frescoes
The church shows remarkable ceiling frescoes by the Bavarian court painter Christian Wink (1778/1779), in the nave the picture Order Foundation by Augustine of Hippo with signature and self-portrait of the master and apparition of Archangel Michael on Mount Gargano , in the choir adoration of the name of Jesus and the psalmist David , in the church vestibule Moses loosing his shoes and burning bush .
Organs
The choir organ from 1680 was installed in the presbytery in 1970.
The main organ on the west gallery was built by Johann Michael Herberger (1779), the organ case and the railing of the gallery were created by the sculptor Josef Stöger from Graz. The main organ was restored in 1953/1954 and renewed in 1981 by the Swiss company Metzler Orgelbau .
Bells
Under the bells in the tower of the collegiate church there is a bell from 1602.
literature
- Reichersberg, Collegiate Church of St. Michael. Pp. 251-252. In: The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Upper Austria. By Erwin Hainisch , reworked by Kurt Woisetschläger , prefaces to the 3rd edition (1958) and 4th edition (1960) by Walter Frodl , sixth edition, Verlag Anton Schroll & Co., Vienna 1977.
- Walter Luger: Pens in Upper Austria and the adjacent areas , OÖ Landesverlag, Linz 1969, pp. 122–114.
- Bernhard Appel : History of the regulated Lateranensischen Canon Monastery of St. Augustin zu Reichersberg in Upper Austria , Linz 1857.
- Konrad Meindl : Die Grabmonumente des Chorherrnstiftes Reichersberg am Inn, in: Reports and communications of the Alterthums-Verein zu Wien 21 (1882), pp. 28–51.
- Konrad Meindl : Brief history of the regulated canons monastery Reichersberg am In , 2nd edition Munich 1902.
- Gerhoch Weiß : The canons of Reichersberg am Inn 1084–1934 , Ried im Innkreis 1934.
- Augustinian Canons of Reichersberg (ed.): 900 years of Augustinian Canons of Reichersberg , Linz 1983.
- Dietmar Straub (head): 900 years of Reichersberg Abbey. Augustinian Canons between Passau and Salzburg (= catalog for the exhibition of the Province of Upper Austria in the Reichersberg am Inn Abbey, April 26 to October 28, 1984, published by the Office of the Upper Austrian Provincial Government), Linz 1984.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 900 years of the Augustinian Canons of Reichersberg . published by the Augustiner Canons' Monastery of Reichersberg, Linz 1983, p. 270.
- ↑ Petrus Stockinger : Saint Claudius, pray for us! On the story of a catacomb saint in Reichersberg Abbey In: The Bundschuh. Series of publications from the Museum Innviertler Volkskundehaus 6 (2003) 29-32.
Coordinates: 48 ° 20 '16.3 " N , 13 ° 21' 39.8" E