Branch church Pulkau
The Pulkau branch church is located in the northern area of Rathausplatz in the municipality of Pulkau in the Hollabrunn district in Lower Austria . The Roman Catholic branch church , consecrated to the patronage of the Blood of Christ , belongs to the Retz-Pulkautal dean's office in the diocese of St. Pölten . The church is a listed building ( list entry ).
history
The reason for the construction of the church building was a pilgrimage because of a miracle of the host , allegedly a host was desecrated by a Jew , as a result of which the Pulkau persecutions of 1338 broke out. In 1339 a "capella" was founded. According to a document, the church was under construction in 1396, in the first half of the 15th century the church was unfinished.
architecture
The unfinished late Gothic church has a south tower . An elongated choir was designed with a transept of the same height . The tower stands in the southern corner of the transept and choir.
- Church exterior
The church has double stepped buttresses and three-lane tracery windows , the window in the north transept has four lanes. The church actually has two Chorecktürme with slit windows, which is north only until the roof ridge pulled up, the higher southern tower has coupled round-arched windows and a sound Ortsteinquadrierung, the tent roof was renewed later. The western double gate system has two ogival portals , the right one is walled up, the portal has deeply grooved, strongly profiled reveals , which show foliage in the lintels. There are grooved pointed arch portals to the north and south. On the north side there is a two-storey extension from 1851 as a sacristy and oratory .
- Church interior
Inside, the church appears as a high, light room with slender wall structures. The three-bay choir closes with a five - eighth closing . In the square yokes of the transept, there are ribbed vaults with round keystones on service bundles in front of fillets made of bulges.
Furnishing
The church contains the important late Gothic Pulkau winged altar , created around 1515/1525, with sculptures and panel painting, a major work of the Austrian Danube School .
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria north of the Danube 1990 . Pulkau, Filialkirche St. Blood, with floor plan, Karner, Pfarrhof, pp. 914–915.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 42 ′ 22.9 ″ N , 15 ° 51 ′ 33.5 ″ E