Eckartsau parish church
The parish church of Eckartsau is in the market town of Eckartsau in Lower Austria . The Roman Catholic parish church consecrated to St. Leonhard of Limoges belongs to the Marchfeld deanery in the vicariate Unter dem Manhartsberg in the Archdiocese of Vienna . The church is a listed building ( list entry ).
history
A parish was accepted before 1300, in 1784 the parish was rebuilt.
The church building, which is essentially medieval, probably from the 14th century, was modified in baroque style in 1703 while retaining the Gothic choir and retaining the existing floor plan.
architecture
The broad nave under a mighty gable roof with a plain western front shows powerful newer buttresses and arched windows. The strongly recessed choir with a five-eighth closure has low buttresses and high arched windows. The four-storey tower, which is essentially medieval, stands above the first choir bay. The tower with arched windows and a facade with plaster band structure wears an onion helmet. In the southern corner of the choir there is a two-storey sacristy extension with a baroque wrought iron gate from the 18th century.
The interior of the church shows an almost square nave of an originally three-aisled Gothic hall. The nave has a surrounding cornice and a newer coffered flat ceiling. The three-part organ loft swings slightly forward and is arched between belts. The segmental triumphal arch is narrow. The two-bay choir is arched between belts on pillars, the end of the choir is flat-arched. In the south wall of the choir there is an arched session niche and an oratorio window above it.
Furnishing
The baroque high altar from the first half of the 18th century has a free-standing altar table with a marble tabernacle and shows the altar sheet St. Leonhard as intercessor before the Holy Trinity in front of a representation of the place and castle, painted by Vitus Hrdlicka in 1762.
There is a late Gothic figure of St. Leonhard around 1500 in a late Gothic keel-arched niche on the triumphal arch, the niche has a late Gothic painted decorative frame from the beginning of the 15th century.
The baroque organ in a classicistic case was started by Vinzenz Deutschmann in 1737 and completed by Franz Ullmann . A bell calls 1679.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria north of the Danube 1990 . Eckartsau, Eckartsau parish, parish church St. Leonhard, with a floor plan. Pp. 141-142.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 8 '30.8 " N , 16 ° 47' 45.4" E