Baumgartenberg Collegiate Church

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Baumgartenberg parish church

The Baumgartenberg collegiate and parish church is dedicated to the Assumption of Mary and is located in the Baumgartenberg monastery in the market town of Baumgartenberg in the Perg district in Upper Austria . The parish Baumgartenberg is part of the pastoral care area Machland , to which the parishes Arbing, Baumgartenberg, Mitterkirchen and Naarn belong.

geography

The church building is the parish church of the Baumgartenberg parish, a Roman Catholic parish in the Perg deanery in the Mühlviertel region in the Austrian diocese of Linz, which is responsible for the state of Upper Austria .

This is managed within the church administration with the parish number 4044 and looks after 1,348 Catholics, who are mainly spread over the municipality of the Baumgartenberg community. Overlaps between parish and community boundaries exist with regard to the border to Klam , where the village Schneckenreitsberg in the municipality of Baumgartenberg belongs to the parish of Klam.

The Baumgartenberg parish is also responsible for the administration of the local and parish cemetery.

The parish is part of the pastoral care area Machland , to which the parishes Arbing, Baumgartenberg, Mitterkirchen and Naarn belong.

Neighboring parishes are Arbing , Mitterkirchen and Münzbach in the dean's office Perg and Klam and Saxen in the dean's office in Grein . Separated by the Danube, Baumgartenberg also borders the Sindelburg parish in the Amstetten deanery in the St. Pölten diocese .

history

History of the parish

Epitaph of the founder, Otto von Machland, in the collegiate church

One dedicated to St. Jakob church was located in the first half of the 12th century on the Ulrichsberg and this was probably a castle chapel belonging to the original parish of Saxen and a separate church of the Lords of Machland .

The church was part of the Otto von Machlands Foundation and his wife Countess Jutta von Peilstein for the construction of the Cistercian Baumgartenberg Monastery and was incorporated into it . Neither the castle nor the church have survived.

The area of ​​Baumgartenberg still belonged to the parish of Saxen, which, due to the dedication of Otto von Machland, was incorporated into the Waldhausen monastery, which existed until its dissolution in 1792 .

The Baumgartenberg parish was founded as part of the decree of March 6, 1784, whereby the collegiate church of the Baumgartenberg monastery, which was in the process of being dissolved, was designated as the parish church.

The pastoral care in the parish was incumbent on the Franciscans of the Tyrolean province from 1889 to 2008 .

History of the parish church

Romanesque portal from the church porch to the collegiate church

The western wall from the founding time in the 12th century has a typical Romanesque portal . The medieval construction stages of the high choir , the vestibule and the raised nave are Gothic and easy to recognize. Incidentally, the majority of the church was baroque, outside and inside, by Italian builders and artists in the 17th century and designed to create a harmonious, uniform structure with a splendid spatial effect.

The foundation stone for the late Romanesque church was laid in 1142. It was not consecrated until 1243 by Bishop Rüdiger von Passau . In 1428 the Hussites looted and pillaged the monastery and church at least three times within the next four years. When the monastery was rebuilt (1436 to 1446), the church received a late Gothic hall choir.

The Cistercians had the church under Abbot Bernhard Breil (1649 to 1683) and Candidus Pfiffer (1684 to 1718) baroque by Carlo Antonio Carlone . The work was stopped around 1700 due to financial difficulties.

After the abolition of Baumgartenberg Abbey on May 30, 1784, the abbey church became open to the public and the Baumgartenberg parish was incorporated as a parish church .

The church was last restored from 1957 to 1959 and 1997 to 2001, with remnants of the original painting being found.

The construction

It is a three-aisled, two-bay hall church with pillars growing out of the ground with belt arches and strongly profiled ribs.

The church is 58 meters long, 15.5 meters wide and 13 meters high without the vestibule. It has a transept with a length of 24 meters and a width of 5.6 meters. The length of the central nave is 33 meters, its width 10 meters. The width of the aisle is given as 2.5 meters. The vestibule is 15.5 meters long and 10 meters wide.

The church is covered by the mighty wing of the women's monastery and the three-storey gate tower. It consists of ashlar stones carved in unplastered Mühlviertel granite. The layout and construction of the church point to French models. The style is characterized by concise and bare forms and strict beauty. The oldest, late Romanesque architectural style of the former basilica can be seen on the gable front of the nave with its four-pass rosette and gracefully rising round arch frieze as well as on the tracts of the nave and transept on the side of the monastery.

The elevated gable ridge and the steep hip roof of the Gothic high choir were built after the destruction of the Hussite Wars in the 15th century.

The stair tower with onion roof in the northeast was created as part of the Baroque era. The pointed arched windows and the pent roof of the vestibule indicate an early Gothic construction at the beginning of the 14th century.

The interior

View from the nave with the choir stalls into the hall surrounding choir
Statue of St. Bernhard at the base of the pulpit (motif Jesse root )

The most important feature of the construction in the Cistercian schools are the cross-ribbed, raised central nave with seven bays, which is twice as high as the side aisles.

The late Gothic choir with ambulatory was consecrated in 1443 and is also borrowed from the French cathedral architecture. In the course of the baroque transformation in the 17th century, several pillars of the Gothic ambulatory were removed. Instead of the bundle pillars in the high choir, four mighty columns made of Stukkolustro were erected, between which a balustrade made of red Salzburg marble was drawn around the high altar.

Giacomo Antonio Mazza and the Grabenperger brothers from Und / Krems designed a total of 121 frescoes on the walls and the ceiling.

The high altar picture from 1698 shows the Assumption of Mary into heaven and is a masterpiece by Johann Karl von Reslfeld . The two side altars in the presbytery are dedicated to Saints Bernard and Benedict .

The choir stalls from the end of the 17th century, made by unknown masters, are artfully carved and decorated with rich acanthus tendrils, have splendid cheeks and fruit hangings. The two coats of arms represent the abbot and the monastery coat of arms. The pulpit, also from this period, shows St. Bernard.

In the church are u. a. Epitaphs of Otto von Machland and Abbot Heinrich II. Kern.

The organ was originally from Passau Boyfriend built in 1662 and 1780 from Freistädter organ builder Franz Lorenz Richter overbuilt and restored to its plans from 1997 to 2001.

literature

  • Karl Gusenbauer: Collegiate Church - a jewel of baroque architecture . In: Baumgartenberg - economy and culture in harmony . Our home - the district of Perg, association for the publication of a district home book of Perg - communities of the district of Perg, Linz 1995, p. 204 ff.
  • Eckhard Oberklammer : Baumgartenberg - Collegiate Church of the Assumption . In: District of Perg - Art and History . Linz 2010, ISBN 978-3-85-499826-6 , p. 42 ff.
  • Monika Soffner-Loibl: Baumgartenberg. Parish Church of the Assumption of Mary, former Cistercian Abbey Church . Peda Art Guide No. 733/2009, Peda Art Publishing House, Passau 2009, ISBN 978-3-89643-733-4 .

Web links

Commons : Stiftskirche Baumgartenberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Catholic parish in Upper Austria - Parish Finder ( Memento of the original from October 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Parish 4044 queried on November 19, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dioezese-linz.at
  2. ↑ Baumgartenberg in the culture atlas Doris - Land Oberösterreich, queried on November 19, 2011 (switch to the map boundaries of municipalities and cadastral municipalities).
  3. ↑ Statistics Austria: Ortverzeichnis Oberösterreich 2001, Vienna 2005, District Perg, p. 205ff PDF queried on November 19, 2011.
  4. ↑ a b c d Rudolf Koch: Early architectural styles in the former monastery church of Baumgartenberg (Upper Austria) . In: Kulturzeitschrift Oberösterreich , Volume 41, Issue 2/1991, pp. 16–20 ( online , accessed on October 11, 2015).
  5. ^ Kurt Klein  (edit.): Historical local dictionary . Statistical documentation on population and settlement history. Ed .: Vienna Institute of Demography [VID] d. Austrian Academy of Sciences . Upper Austria part 2, Perg, Ried im Innkreis, Rohrbach, Schärding, Steyr-Land, Urfahr-Umgebung , p. 12 f . ( Online document , explanations . Suppl . ; both PDF - oD [updated]).
  6. ^ Rudolf Zinnhobler and Johannes Ebner: 125 Upper Austrian parishes are celebrating their 200th anniversary. In: New archive for the history of the Diocese of Linz. 2nd year, issue 3, Linz 1982/83, p. 162ff, online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at.
  7. ↑ Former collegiate church of the Cistercians of Baumgartenberg. In: Homepage of the Baumgartenberg parish queried on November 18, 2011.
  8. ^ Karl Gusenbauer: Stiftskirche - a jewel of baroque architecture. In: Baumgartenberg - economy and culture in harmony. Our home - the district of Perg, association for the publication of a district home book Perg - communities of the district of Perg, Linz 1995, p. 204ff.
  9. ↑ Eckhard Upper bracket: Baumgartenberg - Collegiate Church of the Assumption. In: District of Perg - Art and History. Linz 2010, ISBN 978-3-85-499826-6 , p. 43.

Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 29.9 "  N , 14 ° 44 ′ 36.4"  E