Catholic parish church of Gols
The Roman Catholic parish church of Gols is located in the market town of Gols in the Neusiedl am See district in Burgenland . The parish church of St. Jakobus the Elder belongs to the dean's office Frauenkirchen in the Diocese of Eisenstadt . The church is a listed building .
history
The church was built in the 12th and 13th centuries as a fortified church of a medieval parish on a formerly fortified elevation in the southwestern part of the village of Gols. The Catholic Church was then temporarily in Protestant use. In 1721 the church burned down. It has been renovated several times. During the renovation in 1969, an attempt was made to restore the medieval character of the church.
architecture
The cemetery around the church is surrounded by the former defensive wall. The small church building has a massive east tower with a pyramid helmet. The sacristy connects to the east. The church shows a section of the exposed Romanesque ashlar masonry on the south front. There are three baroque buttresses. A stone with the year 1514 is walled into the porch of the church.
The two-bay nave has a baroque groin vault and a wide, round-arched triumphal arch with beveled edges. The square groin-vaulted choir is on the first floor of the tower. The blind slit window in the tower to the east is from the 16th century.
Furnishing
The font is from the 18th century.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Burgenland 1976 . Gols, Catholic Parish Church of St. James the Elder, p. 109.
Coordinates: 47 ° 53 '48.7 " N , 16 ° 54' 25.4" E