Wolfgang Church (Kirchberg am Wechsel)
The branch church of St. Wolfgang is a Roman Catholic Church. To the northeast, just outside the center of the municipality of Kirchberg am Wechsel, on a slope of the Lienberg, the church can be seen from afar.
history
The choir was donated by Artolf Ofenbeck at the end of the 14th century and is known as the St. Wolfgang Chapel in 1404. The nave was built in the second quarter of the 15th century by Maister Michel(Michael Goldberger?) And Jörg von Straubing (artist inscription from 1451). The church was incorporated into the women's choir in 1510, closed as a subsidiary church in 1782 and taken out of ordination in 1796. Demolition work with the blasting of the vaults was not profitable and left a ruin. A reconstruction was done from 1860 to 1862. The building was re-roofed, the choir and the north aisle were re-vaulted and a planned vaulting of the main nave was not carried out for reasons of cost. In 1862 the church was rededicated. Due to a fire on April 6, 1918, the church was again in ruins. From 1919 to 1926 it was designed by the architect Richard Jordanworked to restore the Church. Restoration work started again in 1971.
Church building
The nave with a towering hipped roof carries an eight-sided wooden roof turret with a high tent roof. The west facade with a monumental shoulder portal shows with a deep, richly profiled ogival embrasure, keel arches with crabs and animals with a finial. The similarly designed north portal shows with a relief St. Wolfgang and the founder Artolf Ofenbeck, his two sons and coat of arms.
The originally two - aisled, three - bay nave now has a flat ceiling. From the ribbed vault there are still round services, capitals, shield ribs and ribs buttocks, whereby the northern nave was closed with a star rib vault from 1860 to 1862. The choir was restored in 1861 with two bays with a 5/8 end with a ribbed vault. In the north wall there is a sacrament niche with a gable cross, to the south there is a pointed arched portal to the sacristy with a pointed barrel and stab caps.
In the nave there is a monumental wall painting of St. Christophorus with the donor with a shield from the end of the 15th century. Small parts of Gothic wall paintings around 1400 have also been exposed. There is stained glass from 1926, 1927 and 1931.
Furnishing
The church was refurbished from 1926 with various works of art from different origins. An Ecce Homo , a so-called Blauer Herrgott from 1735, was transferred from the chapel of the Sankt Marx care home in Vienna in 1860 . The high altar from 1760 is transferred from the Rosalienkapelle of the Freihaus auf der Wieden , 1926. The Gothic sandstone pulpit stands on marble columns with neo-Gothic leaf capitals from 1800, with the tracery parapet from the beginning of the 14th century from the pulpit and the staircase of the Capella Speciosa in Klosterneuburg, transferred here in 1928 and partly refurbished. A monumental crucifix by Herbert Schick is from 1933. A picture of the washing of feet: Christ in Simon's house. Transferred here by Martin Johann Schmidt from 1794, 1936. The pictures of St. Joseph and Mary and the saints of the plague by Adam Brenner from 1859, as well as the picture of the Assumption of Mary by Johann Spillenberger from 1672, 1941 transferred from St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna as a loan.
literature
- Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria: Lower Austria south of the Danube. Part 1. A to L. Kirchberg on the exchange market. Filial church hl. Wolfgang. Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.), Verlag Berger, Horn / Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85028-365-8 , page 940ff.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 36 ′ 37.4 ″ N , 15 ° 59 ′ 51.6 ″ E