Altenwörth parish church
The Roman Catholic parish church Altenwörth is on the main street in Altenwörth in the market town of Kirchberg am Wagram in the Tulln district in Lower Austria . The parish church of St. Andreas belongs to the dean's office in Hadersdorf in the vicariate Unter dem Manhartsberg of the Archdiocese of Vienna . The church is a listed building .
history
A church was first mentioned in 865. In 1014 a parish was established by Abbot Sigmar von Kremsmünster as a gift from Emperor Heinrich II. Because of the recurring floods of the Danube, the parish was transferred to the Kirchberg am Wagram parish church in 1147 . Until 1715 the church was a branch church of the Göttweig monastery and became the patronage church of the Grafenegg rule . In 1784 the church was raised again to a parish church. The vestibule was added in 1860. In 1933 a chapel was added to the southeast of the church. The tower was restored in 1980.
architecture
As a so-called Josephine Hall Church, the church shows itself with a simple long house with pilaster strips. On the south side the facade has a curved gable and a round window and rectangular windows on the side. The monumental vestibule has a gabled arched portal and rectangular windows. The north tower with corner pilasters has rectangular sound windows and a pyramid helmet. The sacristy with a staircase to the tower stands northwest by the choir.
The interior of the church has a nave and a slightly raised, slightly retracted choir with a flat ceiling and walls with pilaster strips.
The sandstone figure of Johannes Nepomuk on the church square shows the year 1715.
Furnishing
The interior is historic. The high altar picture of St. Andreas, painted by Franz Josef Dobiaschofsky (1867). The sculptor Ferdinand Stuflesser (1894) created the figures of the Heart of Jesus and the Heart of Mary , as well as the reliefs of the Crossroads (1910).
The organ was built by Carl Hesse (1875). The bells were cast in 1791.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria north of the Danube 1990 . Altenwörth, parish church hl. Andreas, p. 34.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 23 '8.2 " N , 15 ° 51' 33.7" E