Catholic parish church in Rechnitz
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The Roman Catholic parish church Rechnitz stands in the northern end of the main square in the market town of Rechnitz in the Oberwart district in Burgenland . The parish church consecrated to St. Catherine of Alexandria belongs to the dean's office in Rechnitz in the Eisenstadt diocese . The church is a listed building .
history
The previous church of St. Margaretha was destroyed in the First Austrian Turkish War in 1532.
Today's church building was started in 1654 by Count Ádám I. Batthyány and was not completed until 1679 under his grandson Adam II Batthyány .
The church was renovated from 1728 to 1730 and 1750. In 1850 the church was restored and rebuilt.
architecture
The baroque building with a stepped gable in the south has a porch with a coat of arms of the noble Batthyány family . On both sides of the nave under a barrel vault with stitch caps there are sacristy additions and transept chapels. The wall painting in the nave is by Fritz Silberbauer (1935). A mighty church tower with a pointed spire is built next to the retracted choir.
Furnishing
The high baroque high altar with tabernacle with figures of the church fathers dates from the 17th century. The font was created between 1729 and 1730. Two chalices and an altar cross were made by Matthias Ederer from Rechnitz in the first quarter of the 18th century.
The organ was built by Orgelbau Hopfenwieser (1939).
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Burgenland 1976 . Rechnitz, Catholic parish church hl. Katharina, pp. 248-249.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 18 ′ 21.5 ″ N , 16 ° 26 ′ 24.9 ″ E