Brand parish church near Gmünd
The Roman Catholic parish church of Brand bei Gmünd stands in the middle of a square in the north of the village of Brand in the market town of Brand-Nagelberg in Lower Austria . The parish church of St. Andreas belongs to the deanery of Gmünd in the diocese of St. Pölten . The church is a listed building .
history
The Josephine Church was built from 1784 to 1797 and raised to parish church in 1784. In 1809 there was a church fire. In 1869 renovations were carried out on the church. A restoration took place around 1900.
architecture
The north-facing church with a three-bay nave with a gable facade has a retracted single-bay choir with a triangular closure and a north tower with an onion-shaped dome at the head of the choir. The church has flat arched windows and a surrounding cornice. There are sacristy extensions on both sides of the choir.
The nave and the choir have oblong square vaults over double arches in the nave on pilasters in front of wall pillars. The end of the choir has a stitch cap vault. The organ gallery above a flat ceiling stands on two pillars.
Furnishing
The high altar is a Rococo table with a display niche on a free-standing cafeteria. The high altar painting Martyrdom of St. Andreas in the end of the choir, painted by Martin Johann Schmidt (1780), was moved here from the former Dominican church in Krems in 1786. The side figures Peter and Paul are from the end of the 18th century. The side altars were built around 1860/1870. The classicist pulpit was built at the end of the 18th century. Opposite the pulpit is a canopy niche with the group of figures Holy Family from 1911. Michael Reger (1837) painted the Stations of the Cross.
The organ was built by Lukas Koller (1870).
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria north of the Danube 1990 . Brand, parish church of St. Andreas, Pfarrhof, pp. 70-71.
Coordinates: 48 ° 51 '54.8 " N , 15 ° 0' 45.5" E