Local chapel of Kleinkirchberg

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Local chapel from the southeast

The local chapel Small Kirchberg is a west-facing and St. Anthony of Padua dedicated Roman Catholic neo-Gothic chapel in the village of Klein Kirchberg in the market town of Sitzendorf an der Schmida in the district of Hollabrunn in Lower Austria and is under monument protection .

Building description

Outside

Figure niche with a statue of the Virgin Mary

The chapel, built in 1902 on the so-called main square of Kleinkirchberg, is closed off in the east by a gabled facade. This is structured by corner pilasters and a gable cornice. A pointed arch portal with a lattice gate opens up the interior. In the gable is a figural niche with a statue of the Virgin Mary from around 1900. The gable is closed off by a squat, compact roof turret crowned with a simple cross.

The chapel room, enclosed by a gable roof, has simple facades with pointed arched windows.

In the west rises above the apse the 13.5 meter high tower, which is closed by a pointed helmet with a crowning cross over a tower ball . The tower facade is structured by a corner cuboid and a circumferential roof cornice and is broken through by ogival, plaster-framed sound windows. There is a segment arch portal on the south side .

Inside

The apse of the chapel

The flat interior has lancet windows on the sides. The apse is closed by an apse dome .

Furnishing

A statue of St. Anthony with the baby Jesus, flanked by angels, dates from the early 18th century.

literature

  • Dehio Handbook Lower Austria. The art monuments of Austria. Topographical inventory of monuments. Vol. 7: Lower Austria. North of the Danube. Schroll, Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-7031-0652-2 .
  • Peter Aichinger-Rosenberger (Ed.): At home in Sitzendorf. Home book of the market town Sitzendorf an der Schmida. Marktgemeinde Sitzendorf an der Schmida, Sitzendorf 2006, ISBN 3-200-00577-7 .

Remarks

  1. ^ Inscription on a memorial plaque: " Erected in 1902 under Mayor Anton Wastl ". The year 1902 can also be found on the lattice gate on the east side of the chapel
  2. ↑ The statue was painted over during a renovation in 1983

Web links

Commons : Ortskapelle Kleinkirchberg  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heimatbuch p. 459

Coordinates: 48 ° 35 ′ 40.2 "  N , 15 ° 56 ′ 2.8"  E