Schiedlberg Parish Church (german: Pfarrkirche Mariä Verkündigung) is the
Roman Catholic
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parish church
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of the village of
Schiedlberg
Schiedlberg is a municipality in the district of Steyr-Land in the Austrian state of Upper Austria.
Geography
Schiedlberg lies in the Traunviertel. About 12 percent of the municipality is forest, and 80 percent is farmland.
Neighbouring villages
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in
Upper Austria
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, dedicated to the
Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
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. It belongs to the
deanery
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of
Steyr
Steyr (; Central Bavarian: ''Steia'') is a statutory city, located in the Austrian federal state of Upper Austria. It is the administrative capital, though not part of Steyr-Land District. Steyr is Austria's 12th most populated town and the 3rd l ...
in the
Diocese of Linz
The Diocese of Linz ( la, Dioecesis Linciensis) is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Vienna, Austria.
History
Early history
In the early Middle Ages the greater part of the territory of the present Diocese of Linz was subject to the bishops of ...
. The church is a protected historical monument.
History
The parish is an institution of
Josephinism
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, established in 1786 by order of
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Sierning
Sierning is a municipality in the district of Steyr-Land in the Austrian state of Upper Austria.
Geography
Sierning is located between the city of Steyr and the health resort Bad Hall
Bad Hall () is a market town in the Steyr-Land district of th ...
in the
Diocese of Passau
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Sankt Marien
Sankt Marien is a municipality in the district Linz-Land in the Austrian state of Upper Austria.
Population
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.
Initially, a small wooden chapel was used while the present church was being built between 1786 and 1790, as was the priest's house, which until 1887 also served as a school.Lit. Kaltenbrunner, 1930, ''Die Schule in Thanstetten (Schiedlberg)'', pp. 34 ff eReader . The necessary finances came partly from the ''Religionsfonds'' (the state fund established by Joseph II from the proceeds of his dissolution of monasteries), local landowners and the members of the parish itself.Lit. Kaltenbrunner, 1930, p. 14. At first the lords of Sierning exercised the right of protection (''Vogtei'').
Since 2004 the parish has belonged to the pastoral area of Steyr-West. The parish administrator is the parish priest of Sierning. A voluntary pastoral team is active on site.
Building
The small Neo-classical church building consists of a single nave of three bays with a vaulted ceiling and a recessed rectangular chancel terminating in a segmented arch, with an adjoining
sacristy
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The sacristy is usually located ...
. There are also a west gallery and neoclassical portals on the west and south fronts. The inset west tower has a dome.
Furnishings
The high altar with statues in the
Rococo
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style and an altarpiece by the painter Franz Xaver Gürtler (1777) was transferred here in 1839 from the abandoned church of the Celestine nuns in Steyr. The plain side altars are from the first half of the 19th century. The pulpit is from 1804. The Baroque figure of Maria Immaculata in the nave is from the first quarter of the 18th century. The
sanctuary lamp
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is from 1839.
A small modernist altar with
ambo
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* ''Schiedlberg, Pfarrkirche Mariä Verkündigung'' . In ''Die Kunstdenkmäler Österreichs. Dehio Oberösterreich'' by Erwin Hainisch, sketches by Kurt Woisetschläger, forewords to the 3rd edition (1958) and 4th edition (1960) by Walter Frodl, 6th edition, Verlag Anton Schroll & Co., Vienna 1977
* Michael Kaltenbrunner: ''Geschichte der Pfarre Thanstetten''. Vereinsdruckerei Steyr, . Pirngruber, Linz a. D. 1930; esp. ''Geschichte: Pfarre Thanstetten'', pp. 13 f eReader Oö. Landesbibliothek).