Allhartsberg parish church
The parish church of Allhartsberg is visible from afar in the center of the village of Allhartsberg in the market town of Allhartsberg in the district of Amstetten in Lower Austria . The Roman Catholic parish church consecrated to Saint Catherine of Alexandria - incorporated into the Seitenstetten Abbey - belongs to the dean's office in Waidhofen an der Ybbs in the diocese of St. Pölten . The church is under monument protection ( list entry ).
history
The church was founded in the 11th century as a branch church of Aschbach. In 1116 a parish was mentioned in a document. The church was the mother church of Sonntagberg and Windhag and was incorporated into Seitenstetten Abbey in 1411 . The church was consecrated in 1503. In 1795 the church suffered a fire. In 1908 there was a regotization . In 1992 the tower was restored.
architecture
The late Gothic hall church with a four-pillar room with a choir of the same height from the second half of the 14th century has a massive north tower.
Church outside
The nave under a crooked roof has corner buttresses and unstructured wall surfaces and three two-lane tracery windows of different lengths on each side . The west facade is unadorned, laterally widened with buttresses and has a small vestibule in the middle. The slightly retracted choir has a five-eighth end and double-stepped buttresses and four high, two-lane tracery windows.
The massive and barely articulated north tower with a kinked tent roof is a bit twisted to the church axis at the transition from the nave to the choir, the tower has hatches and Gothic sound windows and shows a painted stone block.
On the south side there are low extensions under monopitch roofs and with rectangular windows and rectangular doors, a groin-vaulted vestibule, in the choir corner a two-storey sacristy from the 17th century. On the north side there is a chapel under a hipped roof with two-lane tracery windows.
In the west and south the church has wide pointed arch portals with a pear and round bar profile from the beginning of the 16th century, the south portal is barred in the apex.
There is a priestly grave slab of Sebaldus Losberger around 1517, on the choir there is a grave stone of the Stibar family from 1799 and 1716.
Church interior
The nave has a centralized four-pillar room with octagonal pillars from the beginning of the 16th century. In the central and north aisles, the vault shows ribs with loops of rhombuses with apex squares, in the south aisle the vault shows caps with parallel ribs and apex crosses over hanging service consoles, the slightly lower north chapel has a star rib vault. The three-axis massive west gallery is open with profiled arcades and arched under with crossed loop ribs or cross-square apices. On the parapet of the gallery there is tracery made of doughy circular figurines with coats of arms.
The triumphal arch, slightly wider than the central nave, is ogival.
The one-bay choir with a five-eighth end with a pear-shaped cross rib vault over slender services is wider than the central nave and was built in the second quarter of the 14th century. On the north wall of the choir is a fragment of a blind tracery window. In the southern wall of the choir there is a late Gothic shoulder portal to the sacristy with an oratory above
The stained glass from 1908 is completely preserved and partly ronamental and partly figural and shows in the choir the scenes of the Marriage of the Virgin, the confession of Johannes Nepomuk, the raising of Lazarus, in the north chapel the Annunciation with Archangels.
Furnishing
The remarkable early Baroque high altar from 1643 was transferred here from the Sonntagberg pilgrimage church in 1677 .
The Upper Austrian Organ Builders built the organ (1974).
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria south of the Danube 2003 . Allhartsberg, parish church St. Katharina, with floor plan, rectory, pp. 25–27.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 1 ′ 36.2 ″ N , 14 ° 47 ′ 25.3 ″ E