Liebenberg Chapel
The Liebenberg chapel is located north of the village of Liebenberg in the market town of Ludweis-Aigen in the Waidhofen an der Thaya district in Lower Austria . The Roman Catholic chapel, consecrated to St. Sebastian , belongs to the dean's office in Waidhofen an der Thaya in the diocese of St. Pölten . The chapel is under monument protection ( list entry ).
history
From the 12th century until the Reformation there was an own parish. The ordination to St. John called the Evangelist .
The connection between the house mountain and the chapel and the somewhat distant Liebenberg ruins is still unclear.
architecture
The chapel is raised in the middle of the forest as the remainder of a former mountain complex . The high chapel building is essentially a Romanesque hall building with a roof turret.
The chapel under a tile gable roof shows a facade with quarry stone masonry partly with remains of plaster. In the eastern yoke of the nave the chapel has high baroque oval windows, the western front has an oculus window. On the south side there is a baroque profiled rectangular portal with a double baroque door. Above the portal is the niche figure of Maria with child in baroque style. Above the lower, drawn-in semicircular apse with ox eyes, there is a choir tower-like roof turret with pointed arched sound windows with a shingled pyramid helmet.
The interior of the chapel shows a high baroque two-bay nave under a groin vault over a dome-shaped belt and a profiled pointed arch niche embedded in the north wall. The wooden gallery is from the 19th century. The retracted triumphal arch was probably raised in baroque style. In the vaulted apse there are oval windows with baroque arched walls. The chapel has a brick floor throughout.
Furnishing
The high altar as a tabernacle altar in late Baroque forms is documented by a foundation 1703 and shows the image of Mary with child from the 19th century on the apse wall and bears God the Father from the 18th century in a fragment of an altar extract. He carries the carved figures of St. Sebastian and St. Rochus from the 17th century originally from the former side altar at the time of the plague around 1682. There are late Gothic carved figures of St. Sebastian from the beginning of the 16th century and St. Pancras around 1500.
There is a Romanesque round baptismal font on a stump above a corner bulb base from the 13th century.
literature
- Liebenberg, Chapel of St. Sebastian, In: The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria north of the Danube 1990 . P. 672.
Web links
- Entry about Liebenberg I on Lower Austria Burgen online - Institute for Reality Studies of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Era, University of Salzburg
Coordinates: 48 ° 48 ′ 21.9 ″ N , 15 ° 27 ′ 24.2 ″ E