Feichsen branch church
The Roman Catholic branch church Feichsen is located in the southern district of Feichsen in the market town of Purgstall an der Erlauf in Lower Austria . The branch church of St. Nikolaus belongs to the Scheibbs deanery in the diocese of St. Pölten . The church building is a listed building .
history
The branch church initially belonged to the parish Steinakirchen am Forst . The late Romanesque church was built around 1220 to 1260. From 1291 to 1973 the branch church was administered by the Reinsberg parish , but was formally assigned to the Purgstall parish in the second half of the 18th century . In 1752 there was a church fire. From 1972 to 1973 the branch church was restored with the architect Wilhelm Zotti , the interior design was changed and the roof turret was reconstructed.
architecture
- Church exterior
The late Romanesque church has a nave under a half-hipped roof and a square choir under a continuous gable roof with a strongly protruding round apse. The apse is crowned by a square clapboard roof turret under a steep tent roof. The simply plastered building has high-lying, arched slit windows with funnel walls from the construction period. There are other larger, adapted windows around 1752. The nave without a portal on the west side has a round arched portal inserted in 1903/1904 with a door fitting from the 16th century. The late medieval sacristy , which protruded to the south, was extended a little to the west in 1903/1904.
- Church interior
The nave hall received a wooden ceiling in 1972/73. The retracted triumphal arch is pushed apart by pushing the vault. The deep round apse with a domed vault connects to the groin vaulted choir. In the south wall of the choir there is a round arched passage with a door fitting from the 16th century to the sacristy under a barrel vault.
Furnishing
The high altar is a block altar with a carved crucifixion group from the 2nd quarter of the 17th century. The side altars made of altar stones show canvas pictures, on the left Maria Immaculata and on the right St. Joseph . There is a statue of St. Nicholas from the middle of the 15th century between two putti from the 2nd quarter of the 17th century, a remarkable half-figure Madonna from the 1st half of the 18th century and a former altarpiece St. Nicholas with the Trinity from the 1st third of the 18th century.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria south of the Danube 2003 . Purgstall an der Erlauf, municipality area, Feichsen, Filialkirche St. Nikolaus, pp. 1769-1770.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 3 ′ 6.8 ″ N , 15 ° 6 ′ 16 ″ E