Branch church Leiben
The Filialkirche Leiben is visible from afar on a hill north of the village in the market town of Leiben in the Melk district in Lower Austria . The Roman Catholic branch church of the Ebersdorf parish , consecrated to St. Corona , belongs to the Maria Taferl dean's office in the diocese of St. Pölten . The church and the cemetery are under monument protection ( list entry ).
history
First mentioned in a document in 1506, the church was built in the late 15th and early 16th centuries and vaulted under Wolf Dietrich von Trauttmansdorff in 1594 and completed with a redesign.
architecture
The late Gothic hall church with a double choir and a western tower in front is surrounded by a cemetery.
- Church exterior
The nave and the double choir show themselves with a circumferential plinth under a common gable roof hunched to the east. On the nave there are ashlar graffiti paintings from the end of the 16th century and stepped buttresses set over at the western corners and pointed arched windows and a late Gothic portal in the north and south. The ogival south portal has a flat frame with multiple bars and diamond-coated bases and is surrounded by ornamental remains of frescoes and incised on the side with halberds, knives, axes, tools and several scribbled inscriptions with Bartholomäus Nepart 1638 and MS 1631, above the south portal there are two painted coats of arms Wreath medallions Trauttmansdorff left and Volckhra right. The pointed arch north portal is walled up and flanked by small segment-arched windows, the portal is framed by half-columns that merge into corded bars.
The double choir closure has pointed arch windows, the two eastern windows are walled up, the corner niche between the polygonal closings shows a painted sundial and is spanned with a stepped arch. At the southern end there is a cantilevered air vent from the walled up crypt.
The west tower with a painted stone border has slotted windows in the basement and a basket arched window and door opening in the south as well as walled-up windows, on the upper floor there are coupled arched windows and in the south there is a tower clock and sundial, above that a roof cornice with a toothed frieze carries a bell helmet from 1926 .
The sacristy annex to the north of the nave has two late Gothic barred windows, the eastern ogive, the northern rectangular, from the end of 1500.
- Church interior
The two-aisled, two-bay hall church with a western gallery merges in the same width into a one-bay chancel with a two-apse closure. The groin vaults on polygonal pillars with high profiled plinths, the middle plinth is accentuated in a cross shape, the ridges have delicate stucco moldings and stucco moldings doubled in the belt and cutting rib area, the stucco in the third yoke on the north wall names IHS 1591 and 1593 on the west wall. The gallery in the width of both aisles, including the western pillar over two rounded arched arcades of different widths, is vaulted with a cross vault with stucco ribs. The chancel has a net vault with plaster ribs partly running towards lion head consoles; the two apses are separated from each other by a wide wall pillar with a passage. In the third yoke of the north wall is a shoulder-arched portal to the two-yoke groin-vaulted sacristy annex.
Figurative stained glass depicting the birth of Christ 1940, St. Hubert von Josef Raukamp around 1949/1950, Maria with rosary around 1935, St. Ignaz 1919, St. Joseph 1919, St. Anthony around 1935, St. Catherine 1935, St. Johannes Nepomuk 1920.
Furnishing
There are three altars with cartilage ornamentation around 1680. The high altar with rich carvings shows the high altar picture of St. John, flanked by Corinthian columns. Corona by the painter Josef Pfeiffer 1818, and in the excerpt the image of God the Father and the Holy Spirit flanked by volute ribbons .
The organ was built by Franz Capek in 1929.
There are remarkable wood epitaphs and figural grave monuments and memorial stones from the 16th and 17th centuries.
graveyard
The cemetery has similar gateways in the east and west and an enclosure wall. The east gate from 1692 shows itself in a simple show wall with inside and outside inclined support pillars with a curved gable end as a round arched gate with three wedge stones and on the inside a larger one between two smaller flat segment arch niches. There is a pseudo-graffiti by the painter A. Dovalil around 1920/1925, on the east gate the resurrection of Christ or trumpet angel, on the west gate crowned saints and reclining hunters.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria north of the Danube 1990 . Leiben, community of Leiben, branch church hl. Corona, with a floor plan, cemetery and enclosure wall. Pp. 656-658.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 14 ′ 52.7 " N , 15 ° 16 ′ 25.4" E