Karner Bad Deutsch-Altenburg
The Karner Bad Deutsch-Altenburg stands southeast of the parish church in the cemetery of the market town of Bad Deutsch-Altenburg in the district of Bruck an der Leitha in Lower Austria . The charnel house with a charnel house is under preservation ( list entry ).
history
The Karner was created in the late 12th and early 13th centuries. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the building was given to the patronage of St. Consecrated to Leopold. In 1823 there was a restoration. The Karner has been owned by the market town since 1995 and is used as a funeral hall.
architecture
- Chapel exterior
The Romanesque round building made of ashlar masonry under a conical roof has a semicircular apse to the east and a porch with a deep five-step funnel portal to the west. The facade has a circumferential, profiled base and partially fragmented vertical half-bars. The apse has a crown window, corner pilasters, three bars, two capitals and a console from the 12th century.
- Chapel interior
The main room above an ossuary has a domed ridge vault from the end of the 17th century on massive stepped rounded consoles of the former heavy ribbed vault. Remnants of the wall painting from the second half of the 13th century, uncovered in 1951/1954, show sea animals and a female sea mermaid, a Christ head and the shoulder area of a figure below, from the life of a holy woman a judge scene and her burning, two angels in the Window reveal tendrils.
The ossuary has a central support.
Furnishing
There is a stone block altar and a stone bench.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria south of the Danube 2003 . Bad Deutsch-Altenburg, Karner, with floor plan, p. 117.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 15.6 ″ N , 16 ° 54 ′ 31.1 ″ E