Biberbach parish church
The parish church of Biberbach is slightly elevated in the church settlement Biberbach in the municipality of Biberbach in the district of Amstetten in Lower Austria . The Roman Catholic parish church consecrated to St. Stephen - incorporated into Seitenstetten Abbey - belongs to the dean's office in Waidhofen an der Ybbs in the diocese of St. Pölten . The church and the cemetery are under monument protection ( list entry ).
history
In 1116, Bishop Ulrich von Passau (?) Handed over the branch church of the parish church of Aschbach-Markt to the Seitenstetten monastery . The church was elevated to a parish church in 1116 and 1312 respectively. After the Turkish invasion in 1529 vicariate. In 1757 the parish was rebuilt and in 1757/1758 the parsonage was rebuilt. The church was restored in several stages from 1957.
architecture
The late Gothic hall church with a western tower and a retracted choir and baroque additions is surrounded by a cemetery.
The exterior of the church shows a uniformly plastered church building under a gable roof with a continuous ridge. The facade shows late Gothic chamfered pointed arch windows between stepped buttresses. On the south-western pair of buttresses, an entrance porch was built under a half-hipped roof with a round arch portal in the 17th and 18th centuries. Century grown. The late Gothic massive tower has a simple pointed arch portal and baroque round arched windows, clock gable and a double onion dome from 1751. The high Gothic choir with buttresses and a polygonal end has baroque round arched windows. In the southern corner of the choir there is a two-storey baroque sacristy extension from the mid-18th century under a half-hipped roof with cloister lattice windows and a simple portal to the west.
Furnishing
The altars and the pulpit are similar. The high altar by the carpenter Anton Paumgartner 1793 is an early classicist columnar retable with an integrated confessional , it shows the altar sheet Martyrdom of St. Stephanus vom Martin Johann Schmidt 1792, flanked by the statues Sebastian and Laurentius, the excerpt has a mercy seat based on the Sonntagberger model, several putti. The altar table shows plait style and carries a standing volute tabernacle.
Johann Lachmayr built the organ in a neo-baroque case in 1915.
Funerary monuments
- On the south side of the church, next to a walled-in millstone, there is a terracotta panel for 43 Turkish sacrifices in 1529.
- On the south side of the church on the buttress a memorial stone fragment as a truncated pyramid with reliefs skull with empty coat of arms and the coat of arms of the Seitenstetten monastery 1535.
literature
- Biberbach, church settlement east of Seitenstetten, parish church St. Stephan, with floor plan, churchyard, rectory, former Farm buildings. In: The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria south of the Danube 2003 . Pp. 266-268.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 1 ′ 45.1 ″ N , 14 ° 42 ′ 32.1 ″ E