Karner (Hardegg)
The Karner is a listed building in Hardegg in the Waldviertel . He is considered the oldest Karner in Lower Austria .
description
The unplastered, broken stone built between 1150 and 1160 Romanesque round building with a truncated conical roof and small, steep arched windows has two storeys. Its construction is similar to the older rotunda in Znojmo an der Thaya in the neighboring Czech Republic .
The Karner was built on a step next to the Hardegg parish church . When viewed from the cemetery, the building appears low, while when viewed from the north it looks like a high tower.
A chapel with a domed vault was set up in the room accessible from the cemetery . A Gothic tracery window was added over the east side of the apse with a bricked altar .
The entrance to the crypt is one floor below on the east side of the Karner.
literature
- Wolfgang Westerhoff: Karner in Austria and South Tyrol , Verlag Niederösterreichisches Pressehaus Sankt Pölten - Vienna, 1989, ISBN 3-85326-891-9
- DEHIO Lower Austria - north of the Danube ISBN 3-7031-0652-2 (1990)
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Coordinates: 48 ° 51 '16.8 " N , 15 ° 51' 28.1" E