Eggern parish church

Parish church hl. Aegyd in Eggern

The Roman Catholic parish church Eggern is located in Eggern in the market town of Eggern in Lower Austria . The parish church of St. Aegyd belongs to the deanery of Gmünd in the diocese of St. Pölten . The church is a listed building .

history

In Eggern there had been a small church (with the patronage of St. Egidius) with a cemetery since the 15th century, even if the place itself was not a parish seat (only from 1784). Even before the Josephine reforms in 1762, it had been regulated that the Gasterner vicar had to hold church services regularly in the Eggerner chapel; the burials of the residents always took place in Eggern.

In 1784 the elevation to the parish took place. In 1792 the new church was consecrated.

architecture

The north-facing church in the middle of Angerplatz is a Josephinian church building with a facade tower. The three-axis hall building with a retracted rectangular choir has flat arched windows and a cornice. In the east of the choir is the sacristy annex. The squat tower with a bell helmet stands in the middle of the south facade with an adjoining room on the left and a spiral staircase on the right. The portal as a rectangular portal shows the year 1792.

The nave under a flat ceiling with a cornice on double strips as wall field division has rounded corners. The curved wooden gallery on two pillars has a parapet with balustrades.

Furnishing

The high altar with a marbled classicist frame architecture from 1824 above a cafeteria with tabernacle from the 19th century shows the altar sheet St. Aegyd by the painter Josef Kastner (1931). The side altar in a round arch niche bears a figure of Mary of Lourdes (1895). The classical pulpit was built around 1800. There are two granite stones in baroque shapes, one from 1895.

In 1920 an organ was installed by the Breinbauer organ building company. This was replaced in 1988 by a new instrument built by Friedrich Heftner, which has 10 stops on two manuals and a pedal.

literature

• The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria north of the Danube 1990 . Eggern, parish church St. Aegyd, pp. 171-172.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stefan René Buzanich: The lifeworld of the village subjects of the Kuefstein rule Litschau as reflected in the legacy treatises of the 1st half of the 18th century (dissertation at the University of Vienna, 2020, 4 volumes). S. 211 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 54 '29.3 "  N , 15 ° 8' 57.9"  E