Kanning branch church
The Kanning branch church stands on slightly sloping terrain in the northeast of the hamlet of Kanning in the municipality of Ernsthofen in the Amstetten district in Lower Austria . The Roman Catholic branch church consecrated to St. Wolfgang belongs to the dean's office in Haag in the diocese of St. Pölten . The church is a listed building ( list entry ).
history
The founding and the founder of the former stately own church are not known. Initially a branch of the parish church St. Valentin under the patronage of the Erla monastery with establishment of the vicariate in 1786 branch of the parish church Ernsthofen .
The arching of the nave was created by the architect Carl Anton Zeronetti in 1735. In 1884 a restoration was carried out.
architecture
The towerless late Gothic church building with a square nave has a two-bay long choir.
The exterior of the church is a late Gothic block and quarry stone building with original plastering. The nave under a steep hipped roof has stepped buttresses placed over the west corners in the sense of a planned four-pillar hall. The south side of the nave has three different large one- or two-lane tracery windows, in the center of the south side there is a pear-shaped, pointed arched portal, in the west front there is a triple shoulder portal formed with pointed arch archivolts, on the buttresses flanking the west portal there are ribs of a former portal vestibule, the north side of the nave has only a two-lane tracery window. The retracted choir was started in the third quarter of the 15th century, it is a little higher under a steep gable roof and shows ashlar masonry up to the surrounding sill cornice, above it quarry stone masonry from the fourth quarter of the 15th century, the choir shows two-lane tracery windows between double buttresses Lattice and fish bubble motifs as well as grooved walls, in the north the masonry is closed without windows. In the southern corner of the choir there is a protruding sacristy extension from the fourth quarter of the 15th century under a steep pent roof, the sacristy has small lattice windows with noses and in the west a former lavabo drain .
The stone pulpit with a coffered parapet with branches over a richly layered console is from the first quarter of the 16th century.
Furnishing
The left side altar was transferred from the Ernsthofen parish church in 1894, the organ in 1871, the Way of the Cross in 1895, and a bell in 1947.
The organ was built by Nikolaus Rummel in 1767. Johann Maximilian Hagenauer named the bell on the choir roof in 1731.
literature
- Ernsthofen, Kanning, Filialkirche St. Wolfgang with floor plan. In: The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria south of the Danube 2003 . Pp. 409-410.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 28 ″ N , 14 ° 31 ′ 6.6 ″ E