Branch church Lanzendorf (Böheimkirchen)

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Southeast view of the church with the leaning tower

The branch church of St. Martin is a Roman Catholic church in the Lanzendorf district in the Lower Austrian market town of Böheimkirchen .

The church is a branch church of the parish church of St. James the Elder in Böheimkirchen. It is mentioned in a document in 1248. The church has a rectangular nave from 1200 and a square choir with a Romanesque round apse . The west tower was introduced to the nave portal in the 15th century. It is noteworthy that essentially the Romanesque building has been preserved, which still stands unobstructed in the open and can be seen by users of the Western Railway (old route).

Both the nave and the slightly drawn-in square corridor are undivided and irregularly provided with small windows. The apse is low. The church under a gable roof and a half-cone roof was given a new clapboard roof in 1968. In the south-facing nave wall there are three high-lying Romanesque slit windows with deep round arches and a late Gothic two-lane tracery window from the beginning of the 16th century. Next to the south portal are two wall niches, on the one hand with a connection to an offering box, on the other hand with walled-in stone disks with seven holes in the manner of light bowls. There is a baroque window in the north wall of the nave. The west tower with a tent roof, cross-vaulted on the ground floor, has small slotted windows and ogival sound windows and shows a plaster relief on the north side with crossed pilgrim sticks and a scallop shell. In the east wall of the tower there is a rectangular portal with orthostats , a monolithic threshold and a monolithic lintel at the height of the nave attic. The church tower has a steep incline due to its lowering during construction with a compensation kink analogous to the Leaning Tower of Pisa .

The nave is a hall room with a beamed ceiling, renovated in 1968. In the west is a balcony gallery from the 17th century, the tower access and the gallery access have late Gothic shoulder portals. The triumphal arch between the nave and the choir is low and circular. The square corridor ceiling was renewed in 1968 and rests on Romanesque warriors , with a bulge on the left and spherical reliefs on the right. The altar table in the apse is brick.

The high altar bears an altarpiece of St. Martin by Johannes Brad from 1982. There are two side altars on the triumphal arch wall with brick altar tables and pictures, on the left St. Anthony of Padua and on the right the Holy Family from the 2nd half of the 17th century, and with baroque statues, St. Peter and St. Paul from the 1st half of the 18th century. The door leaves are late Gothic fittings. The offering box in a wall niche is late medieval. The bell is from 1953.

literature

  • Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria: Lower Austria south of the Danube. Part 1. A to L. Lanzendorf. Filial church hl. Martin. Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.), Verlag Berger, Horn / Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85028-365-8 , page 1140.
  • Harald Hartmann: The wolf in the church in Lanzendorf near Böheimkirchen. June 2005
  • Bruno Schober: The leaning tower of Lanzendorf near Böheimkirchen. 2009/2010.

Web links

Commons : Filialkirche Lanzendorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Harald Hartmann on haben.at
  2. Bruno Schober PDF 7.8MB

Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 35.8 ″  N , 15 ° 47 ′ 19.7 ″  E