Thomaskirche near Kühbach

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The ruins of the Thomaskirche near Kühbach described in the Austrian Art Topography were located in the Dachsgraben in the municipality of Kühbach . At the time of the relocation to create the Döllersheim military training area , it was already in ruins.

history

A wooden house of prayer was built here in the 14th century after a miraculous image of St. Thomas of Canterbury was found near a supposedly medicinal spring . The chapel, later built with the permission of Pope Innocent VII , was incorporated into the Zwettl monastery .

In 1427 the chapel, the construction of which had started in 1409, was destroyed by the Hussites . The rebuilt chapel with its three altars was consecrated in 1450 by Auxiliary Bishop Wolfgang von Passau. In the following years, extensions were repeatedly built. A stone pulpit made in 1555 for the Zwettl collegiate church in Eggenburg was transferred here in 1722. After the sanctuary was abolished, it was brought back.

In the course of the Josephine reforms , the pilgrimage church was closed in 1785. In 1795 it was partially demolished and two small houses were built with the material obtained.

description

The Thomaskirche near Kühbach was a single-nave Gothic church built from rubble and bricks with a rectangular sacristy attached to the south side of the choir . Around 1911 there were still remains of the nave , the choir on the east side and the sacristy.

The statues of saints and altarpieces were allegedly distributed to the chapels in the surrounding areas, the St. Thomas image itself is considered lost.

literature

  • Austrian art topography , published by the Imperial and Royal Central Commission for Art and Historical Monuments, Volume VIII, The Monuments of the Political District of Zwettl in Lower Austria (without Zwettl Abbey), Part 2: The judicial districts of Groß-Gerungs and Zwettl , commissioned by Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna, 1911
  • Ernst Werner Techow : The old home. Description of the Waldviertel around Döllersheim. Published by the Deutsche Ansiedlungsgesellschaft Berlin. Sudetendeutsche Verlags- und Druckerei-GmbH, Eger 1942

Footnotes

  1. ^ Austrian art topography
  2. ^ German settlement society: The old home
  3. ^ Austrian art topography
  4. ^ Austrian art topography
  5. ^ German settlement society: The old home

Coordinates: 48 ° 38 ′ 2.4 ″  N , 15 ° 13 ′ 42.2 ″  E