Parish church of Aschach an der Donau
The Roman Catholic parish church of Aschach an der Donau is located in Aschach in the market town of Aschach an der Donau in the Eferding district in Upper Austria . The church consecrated to St. John the Baptist belongs to the Deanery Eferding in the Diocese of Linz . The church is a listed building ( list entry ).
history
A church was mentioned in documents in 1371. The church was rebuilt around 1490. The late Gothic core of the church was redesigned in Baroque style . The church was elevated to a parish church in 1784 .
architecture
To the single- three-bay sting cap barrel-vaulted nave includes einjochiger choir with a five-eighth final at. The former rib vault of the choir has been redesigned in Baroque style. A gallery was added to the north side of the nave in the early 18th century . The tower in the northern corner of the choir has a Gothic storey with former sound windows with cloverleaf arch and two upper storeys converted into an octagon. The tower has a late baroque onion helmet. The end of the choir shows a late Gothic keystone to the north.
Furnishing
The early classical high altar around 1784 shows a remarkable picture of Our Lady with John the Baptist and Nicholas from the end of the 17th century; in the excerpt, the miraculous so-called “Old Danube Cross” was installed, which was recovered from the Danube during an ice rush in 1693. During the modern redesign of the church by Clemens Holzmeister , the side altars and pulpit were removed and replaced with statues of Saints Michael and Florian.
Remarkable individual pieces are a late Gothic mount of olives with the year 1489, a fragment of the gravestone of the builder Sigmund von Schaunberg († 1498), a Pietà from the 18th century and the so-called "Kripperlboot", a Christmas scene on a Danube boat against the backdrop of Aschach, carved in 1984 by the sculptor Aegidius Gamsjäger .
There is a bell from 1717.
literature
- Aschach an der Donau, parish church St. Johannes d. T. pp 25-26. In: The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Upper Austria. By Erwin Hainisch , reworked by Kurt Woisetschläger , prefaces to the 3rd edition (1958) and 4th edition (1960) by Walter Frodl , sixth edition, Verlag Anton Schroll & Co., Vienna 1977.
- The parish church of Aschach an der Donau , ed. from the Roman Catholic Aschach Parish Office (2018)
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Coordinates: 48 ° 22 ′ 1.3 ″ N , 14 ° 1 ′ 31.2 ″ E