Wall pilgrimage church
The Roman Catholic parish and pilgrimage church Mauer is a pilgrimage church in the village of Mauer near Melk in the market town of Dunkelsteinerwald in Lower Austria . The parish church of the Birth of the Virgin Mary incorporated into the Göttweig monastery belongs to the Melk deanery in the diocese of St. Pölten . The parish church and the cemetery are under monument protection .
history
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Sacrament house height 11 m
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According to legend, St. Gotthalm, a servant of St. Koloman after 1012 in Mauer; Gotthalms body was transferred to Melk. This fact already attracted pilgrims to Mauer. Nothing is left of the oldest church building today. Possibly this church was a wooden building , as reported in the Vita Altmanni . The holdings of the parish of Mauer were enlarged in the 14th and 15th centuries. The oldest part of the parish church probably dates from this time. The two aisles were probably added around 1300. The high choir was not added until the late 15th century. The church was to be expanded in the 15th century, but the Reformation prevented further building activity because the Lords of Albrechtsberg, who were among the sponsors, had accepted the new teaching. The late Gothic tower was erected in the last construction phase . At the same time as the choir , the old sacristy was built as an extension of the north aisle. In the baroque period, the furnishings of the church were renewed.
inner space
Carved altar
The carved altar (1509) from Mauer near Melk is a late Gothic masterpiece . In the middle part Mary is shown with the child and saints, in the wings scenes from the life of Mary . An altarpiece shows a crucifixion. The sculptor who created the altar, not known by name, is referred to as the master of the altar at Mauer near Melk .
Sacrament House
The tabernacle on the north side dates from 1506, as the maker's mark shows, and is one of the most beautiful of its kind in Lower Austria . If you look at the graceful building, which is around eleven meters high, the distinctive style becomes clear. The late Gothic can be seen in the individual details. The box-shaped sacrament niche with Gothic bars rests on a slender pedestal pillar. There are statues of St. Barbara, Maria, Katharina as well as St. Benedict , Stephanus and St. Nicholas .
High altar
The room-filling late baroque, four-column high altar depicts a baroque -colored Gothic statue of Mary with child, “Maria am green Anger” from the 14th century and is surrounded by angelic glory. On the side above the pedestrian doors are gilded statues of St. Benedict and Peter on the left, and Paul and Scholastica , on the top the Holy Trinity in a large halo, flanked by the statues of St. Catherine and Barbara . The high altar dates from around 1757.
Hardly any documentation has survived on the restoration. Reports of representations of the altar as they exist for other altars do not exist for the altar of Mauer. The first news about the state of preservation of the altar is only available in 1835. This information stated that the altar was not painted in color at that time, but rather wood colored to the viewer. Eduard von Sacken, on the other hand, reports that although the altar was unpainted, it has recently been painted in wood. In 1908 Eduard Katschthaler reports that the figures and ornaments are still in good condition, but he recommends removing the oil paint layer and supporting the wings. The only major restoration of the altar was between 1937 and 1945. The colors were removed. In particular, the financing of the restoration was not financially feasible at the time. After restoration, it was shown in the State Museum of Applied Arts until 1939, later in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna until 1941. On January 15, 1941, it was brought back to Mauer and installed. In 1961 there was an anti-anobia treatment and in 1969 it was dedusted. The restoration began in the spring of 1996. When assembling the individual figures and the altar wings, photogrammetric plan documents were created. The altar was dismantled in August 1996 except for the shrine case, which was treated on the spot after the restoration of the church interior. The restoration was done taking into account the schedule. For the restoration alone, freelance restorers spent a total of more than 4,500 working hours. The costs for this amounted to 123,500 euros.
literature
- Rupert Feuchtmüller : The carved altar in Mauer near Melk. A miracle of Gothic carving , Verlag Niederösterreiches Pressehaus, 1955.
- Rupert Feuchtmüller, Eugen Santol: The carved altar in wall near Melk. Lower Austrian Press House , St. Pölten Vienna 1975.
- Theobald Wirth: The carved altar of Mauer near Melk. In: the minster. Issue 2, 152-157, 1997.
- The carved altar from Mauer near Melk. 206th special exhibition of the Austrian gallery Belvedere in Vienna, Vienna 1997.
- Gerhard Floßmann: Wall pilgrimage church near Melk. Church leaders, 1998.
- Michaela Maria Schuller: The altar of Mauer near Melk - original appearance and original iconography. Diploma thesis, University of Vienna, 2003.
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria south of the Danube 2003 . Wall near Melk, parish church of the Birth of Mary, rectory, pp. 1346–1348.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Johann Eduard Domainko, the whole Christian Catholic doctrine in Examples, Vienna 1844
- ^ R. Feuchtmüller:: The carved altar in Mauer bei Melk - A miracle of Gothic carving monograph on the church and altar of Mauer bei Melk. Press Association Printing House 1955
Coordinates: 48 ° 13 ′ 47 " N , 15 ° 25 ′ 21" E