Parish Church of Öhling
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The parish church of Öhling is visible from afar on a hill in Kirchweiler Öhling in the market town of Oed-Oehling in the district of Amstetten in Lower Austria . The Roman Catholic parish church , consecrated to St. Wolfgang von Regensburg and incorporated into Seitenstetten Abbey, belongs to the Amstetten deanery of the St. Pölten diocese . The church is a listed building ( list entry ).
history
A chapel was mentioned in a document in the 13th century and the church in 1545 as a branch of the parish church of Aschbach-Markt . In 1679 the nave was extended and in 1694 stucco work was carried out. First documented mention in 1784 parish. 1814 was a fire and a ruin. The church and the parish were not rebuilt until 1833. In 1914 the west tower was built according to the plans of the architect Matthäus Schlager .
architecture
The simple, essentially baroque hall church with a choir, which is probably essentially Gothic, has a massive, neo-baroque west tower.
The exterior of the church shows an undivided nave with arched windows and a slightly drawn-in, elongated choir with a triangular closure under a gable roof. The west portal is a Gothic shoulder portal with a crossed frame. On the south side of the choir there is a two-storey sacristy extension under a pent roof. The tower with arched sound windows is structured in the upper area with pilaster strips and has a hooded roof with a lantern.
The interior of the church is baroque with a Gothic wall core under a flat ceiling. The organ gallery is from the second half of the 19th century. The sacristy has a barrel vault.
The church has a monumental mural painting on the ceilings of the nave and the choir with themes of resurrection and redemption, on the choir wall a frieze and scenes with St. Benedict and religious painted from 1925 to 1927 by the painter Hans Fischer. The stained glass name 1924 and 1929.
Furnishing
The high altar from the end of the 18th century is a late baroque columned retable with volute extract and shows St. Wolfgang and on the upper picture the Holy Trinity.
The neoclassical side altars bear the statues of Maria Immaculata and St. Josef von Josef Rieffesser 1909.
The organ was built by Johann Lachmayr in 1898. There are bells by Johann Maximilian Hagenauer in 1716 and Johann Hollederer in 1843.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria south of the Danube 2003 . Oed-Oehling, Öhling, Kirchweiler, parish church St. Wolfgang. P. 1605.
Web links
- Parish of Mauer - Öhling : Website of the parish of Mauer-Öhling
Coordinates: 48 ° 6 '2.8 " N , 14 ° 47' 57.9" E