Parish Church of Bischofstetten
The Roman Catholic parish church of Bischofstetten is elevated in the northeast of the town of Bischofstetten in the market town of Bischofstetten in the Melk district in Lower Austria . The church consecrated to St. Agatha belongs to the dean's office in Melk in the diocese of St. Pölten . The parish church is a listed building .
history
The church is a foundation of the Regensburg bishops in the 9th century and was in the 11th / 12th. Century a branch of Hürm. The churchyard is closed off in the south by a lining wall. This points to an early medieval castle church. A parish is mentioned in 1160 and a pastor in 1325. In the 17th / 18th In the 19th century the church was again a branch. In 1761 a parish was established again. Today's church was built in 1743/1746 using old masonry, presumably with Josef Wissgrill , and consecrated in 1746.
architecture
- Church exterior
The nave is simple and unstructured with a surrounding eaves cornice under a gable roof. On the south side, a heavily damaged, Gothic garment of a pointed arch portal was exposed. The tower, half set in the west between the volute flanks, has a small double-onion helmet.
- Church interior
A square choir adjoins the two-bay nave with a narrower western gallery bay, both under deep vaults on pilasters and entablature. The pre-rounded gallery parapet shows acanthus leaf stucco.
Furnishing
The church has a rich baroque interior from the 18th century.
The organ was built by Herbert Gollini (1980). Johann Gottlieb Jenichen (1823) cast a bell.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria south of the Danube 2003 . Bischofstetten, parish church St. Agatha, rectory, cemetery, war memorial, p. 273.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 7 '23.7 " N , 15 ° 28' 13.8" E