Pilgrimage Church Maria Bründl (Wilhelmsdorf)
The pilgrimage church Maria Bründl is a Roman Catholic church in Wilhelmsdorf in the Lower Austrian municipality of Poysdorf . It is located southwest of the village, on the road to Staatz , in the middle of a forest on the Poysbach. The late baroque building has a cruciform floor plan and a tower facade. As a branch of the Poysdorf parish , it belongs to the Archdiocese of Vienna .
history
The healing spring northwest of the church has been proven to have been used for healing purposes as early as the Thirty Years' War - but probably even before that.
In 1637 there was a simple wooden cross in the place of today's church. In gratitude for averting the plague, the municipality of Poysdorf built a chapel from 1655 to 1657. Between 1740 and 1751, the current church was then built to the east according to the plans of the architect Donato Felice d'Allio and under the direction of the builder Andreas Hammer.
Exterior
The pilaster-structured nave has short transverse arms and a retracted choir with a segmental arch in the west. The gallery and the gable facade are equipped with pilasters on high plinths. The rectangular entrance portal has side pilasters and a blown gable. Above are arched windows with triangular gable roofing over eaves and decorative framing. Behind it, the tower rises above a volute gable with round arched acoustic windows with rich plaster framing, corner pilasters and an onion helmet with a lantern. The older chapel from 1653/57 connects to the west of the choir. It has an eight-sided floor plan and inside has a dome over a cornice . On both sides of the choir there are two-story, pilaster-structured additions. The wrought iron doors and window baskets date from the construction period. On the north side of the nave there is a stone outer pulpit.
Interior
The high and bright interior has a narrow gallery yoke and an adjoining square yoke with bevelled corners under square vaults . The short transverse arms lie under barrel vaults . The main room has belt arches over pilasters on high plinths with gold-plated volute capitals. These are connected in the choir and on the cross arms by cornices. Heavy cranked entablature lies above it . There are segmental arched windows above and below the cornices. The two-storey, protruding organ loft with plaster decoration and structured parapet is vaulted under a barrel cap. The choir, which has been raised by two steps, is located under a square vault over belt arches on pilasters. A stitch cap cuts into the dome of the apse . The gallery windows on the side of the choir are framed by stuccoed bandwork . The square vaults in the side rooms to the north and south of the choir lie between narrow barrels. The stained glass in the nave, marked 1910, depict scenes from the life of St. Elisabeth .
Facility
The high altar included in the end of the choir was erected in 1767 by Johann Michael Reif. It has a columned pedicle with a curved floor plan, two entablature-bearing columns on a high pedestal and a curved attachment with a group of God the Father and Angels . In a recess-like depression in the center of the altar is located within a hold of angels, richly decorated metal frame from the middle of the 18th century, the 1675 donated grace image with a paraphrase by Raphael . Console figures of Saints Joachim and Anna stand on the side on pedestals . The tabernacle on the free-standing altar table comes from the early classical era.
The side altars on the western corner of the nave have two-storey column aedicules with a curved floor plan with a set altar table. Above each rise two columns with a top over straight beams. The left altar panel is marked Matthias Hertzinger 1770 and represents Saint Leopold . It is flanked by console figures of Saints Francis and Dominic from the third quarter of the 18th century and has an image of the Coronation of Mary . The right altar panel with a depiction of Saint Joseph is marked Georg Kugler 1866 . The console statues of Saints Peter and Paul date from the middle of the 19th century. The Annunciation is shown on the top picture.
The rococo pulpit with putti and evangelist symbols on the basket and an Ecclesia figure on the sound cover is a work by Philipp Schönauer from the year 1754. The opposite figure of the painful Maria under a crucifix comes from the third quarter of the 18th century. Further furnishings include two console figures of Saints Johannes Nepomuk and Franz Xaver from the third quarter of the 18th century in the nave, two baroque confessionals and two early baroque statues of the Madonna from the 17th century. A bell was cast by Balthasar Heroldt in 1666 .
See also
literature
- DEHIO Lower Austria north of the Danube . Berger, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-85028-395-3 , pp. 1292f.
Web links
- Description of the church on the website of the Poysdorf deanery
Coordinates: 48 ° 39 '53.3 " N , 16 ° 36' 13.9" E