Parish church Bad Großpertholz
The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Bartholomew and Thomas in the Lower Austrian town of Bad Großpertholz is located above the market square on a step. The originally Romanesque hall church with a baroque west tower, which was modified in 1691 and 1776–1779, is a listed building . The parish , first mentioned in a document in 1358, was abolished in 1544 and rebuilt in 1690. In 1926 and 1966 the church was restored. It belongs to the deanery of Gmünd in the diocese of St. Pölten .
Exterior
A sacristy is attached to the simple, baroque hall building with a retracted rectangular choir and the Romanesque St. Thomas Chapel with a semicircular apse is attached to the south of the choir. The extensions south of the nave were built in 1970. Built in 1776-1779 tower has a square floor plan, a flachbogiges portal in the west, upstairs a Lisenengliederung , acoustic window and a built after a fire in 1866 pyramidal roof .
Interior
The broad, three-bay nave was redesigned in Baroque style. It has a barrel vault (wooden construction) from 1776 to 1779 with stitch caps over the arched windows, which were probably created in 1691. The plaster is structured by fields and cornices . The organ loft from around 1770/1780, into which the organ was added in 1789, also has a field structure on the curved parapet. The triumphal arch is strongly drawn in and marked 1728. The essentially Romanesque choir is barrel-vaulted and just closed. The Romanesque St. Thomas Chapel on the south side has a semicircular apse and a ribbed vault probably from the 14th century .
Facility
The high altar , above the free-standing cafeteria and with a tabernacle , which was probably made in the late 18th century, has a framed picture of the grace of Our Lady of Perpetual Help from the first half of the 19th century. On the back wall of the choir is the altarpiece of St. Bartholomäus by Ludwig Tily from 1883 between carved angels from the fourth quarter of the 18th century. The side altars from the middle of the 18th century have marbled volute extensions. In the left central niche there is a figure of St. Maria from 1883 and on the right a figure of St. Salvator from 1884. The classicist pulpit from around 1800 is decorated with a relief of Petri fish pulling.
The church has several portraits of saints: Figures of St. Sebastian and Florian in the style of the 18th century; a baroque figure of St. Franziskus by Josef Untersberger from 1892; a figure of St. Leonhard and a portrait of Christ on the scourge column from the 18th century. A baroque crucifix hangs on the triumphal arch .
Further fittings include a baroque baptismal font made of granite from the 17th and 18th centuries. Century, a holy water stone on an eight-sided pillar, cross-way reliefs from 1882 and frames in rococo shapes .
literature
- Evelyn Benesch u. a. (Ed.): Lower Austria north of the Danube . 2nd unaltered edition Berger, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-85028-395-3 , p. 344f.
Web links
- Entry on parish church Großpertholz in the Austria-Forum (chapter sacred buildings)
Coordinates: 48 ° 37 '43.1 " N , 14 ° 49'25.4" E