Eberschwang parish church

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Parish church hl. Michael in Eberschwang
South view of the parish church

The Eberschwang parish church is located in the market town of Eberschwang in Upper Austria . The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Michael belongs to the deanery of Ried im Innkreis in the diocese of Linz . The church is a listed building .

history

The church was mentioned in a document in 1075.

architecture

The Gothic, single-nave, four-bay, vaulted, ribbed nave has side aisles from more recent times added to both eastern bays, to the north after 1951. The three-bay vaulted choir has a three-eighth end. The tower has an eight-sided pointed helmet. The organ gallery is made of wood. The doors of the church show Gothic fittings.

Furnishing

The high altar and the right side altar are neo-Gothic. The altar sheet of the cross altar was painted by Franz X. Gürtler (1802). There is a bell from 1765.

Organ of the parish church

The organ was made by Orgelbau Pirchner using the Rococo organ case from 1794 and consecrated on September 29, 1978. It has mechanical slide chests, two manuals and a pedal as well as 19 registers.

literature

  • Eberschwang, parish church St. Michael, vicarage as a former Tattenbachsches Schlössl. P. 52. 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.

Web links

Commons : Sankt Michael (Eberschwang)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 48 ° 9 ′ 17.1 ″  N , 13 ° 33 ′ 43.1 ″  E