Vornbach Abbey
The monastery Vornbach is a former Benedictine monastery in Vornbach, community Neuhaus am Inn, Bavaria, in the diocese of Passau.
History
That of St. Mary and St. Benedict consecrated monastery was set up as a collegiate ago in 1050 by Countess Himiltrud of Vornbach and founded in 1094 by Count Egbert I of the form of Bach and his wife Matilda of Lambach - Pitten and Count Ulrich of Wind Mountain as a monastery. All four founders are from the family of the Counts of Formbach.
Bishop Ulrich of Passau I. consecrated the Benedictine monk Berengar († October 29, 1108 ) for the first abbot of the monastery.
In 1125 they built a late Romanesque twin- Basilica in place of a castle. From the mid-12th century to the late Gothic period, the monastery housed a significant writing school. It was here that in 1421 an elaborately painted Bible. The church received a new choir in the 14th century.
In 1438 a serious flood of the Inn washed away a monastery tract, which collapsed then. Several people, including the abbot, were swept away by the floods, but were rescued a few kilometers downstream.
The present church was built under Abbot Benedict Hepauer 1630-1637, including the Romanesque and the Gothic choir enclosure walls. In 1700 came the two-storey monastery building. Only under Abbot Clarus Faßmann the Church received from 1728 to 1733 their late Baroque interior.
The monastery was dissolved in 1803 during the secularisation of Bavaria, the abbey church became the parish church for 1806. The Austrian possessions of the monastery fell to the state. The monastery buildings acquired Franz X. Bachmayr 1857 they came into the possession of Baron Schätzler. The northeastern courtyard serves as the rectory.
The Collegiate Church of the Assumption is the mother church of the Assumption Church in Neunkirchen in Austria.
The Church
The facade of the twin-towered church was built in 1765-1770 by the architect Johann Michael Snow, Passau man. Inside fall on four semicircular niche chapels. In the 20th century, the changes of the 19th century, in particular the replacement of the stucco wall of Franz Josef Holzinger by ornaments painting were reversed. The fresco painting depicting mainly scenes from the life of Mary and the choir Satan's fall, comes from Innocent Anton Warathy. The high altar of Holzinger from 1730 carries a picture of Bartolomeo Altomonte, showing Assumption.
The organ from 1732 created by Johann Ignaz Egedacher. The instrument was last restored in 2008. It has 20 stops on two manuals and pedal. The play and Registertrakturen are mechanical. A special feature of this instrument is still functioning Kalkantenanlage.
- Pairing: shove coupler I / II
- In addition to register: Nightingale, Tremulant ( complete works )
Through frequent explosions in the nearby quarry, the church received a ceiling longitudinal crack, which in 1962 pulled together by large iron rods again.
The statue
In the first chapel of the rear left side of the church there is a carving of the Virgin and Child from around 1475th This miraculous image comes from the Sanctuary of Mary at the sand, which was south of the abbey.
The former parish church
The former parish church was dedicated to Saint Front Bach Martin. After the secularization of the parish rights were transferred to the former monastery church. In 1826 the church was removed down to the presbytery, and this served in succession as a cemetery chapel and morgue. 1975, frescoes discovered during restoration work in the 15th century and partially exposed.
Mary on the Sand
The pilgrimage church of Maria am Sand was the oldest church in the town. Even before the founding of the monastery in 1094 was an important pilgrimage at this point. The decorated with rich stucco by Franz Xaver Holzinger church was demolished after the secularization in 1831. The statue was transferred to the former monastery church.