Parish Church of Els
The parish church Els stands slightly higher in the west of the village of Els in the market town of Albrechtsberg an der Große Krems in the district of Krems-Land in Lower Austria . The Roman Catholic parish church consecrated to St. Pancras belongs to the Deanery Spitz in the diocese of St. Pölten . The church is a listed building ( list entry ).
history
In the 13th century vicariate, an own parish of the Lords of Hartenstein was founded in 1332. The parish was not occupied in the 16th century and became a branch of the Albrechtsberg parish church in the 17th and 18th centuries . In 1729 the parish was restored by Count Gudenus .
The church was baroque from 1724 to 1726.
architecture
The baroque church building, which is essentially medieval, has an exposed west tower.
- Church exterior
The nave shows itself with arched windows and small roof hatches. The retracted choir with a three-eighth closure has renewed buttresses. The massive, square, late-Gothic west tower becomes octagonal in the sound zone with a gable wreath and remains of finials and a stone pyramid roof. Above the choir is a roof turret from the 19th century. On the south side of the choir is a two-storey gable-top sacristy extension.
Outside the church there is a classicist tomb with richly tiered structure on a rustical plinth and with a triangular gable to Octavia Reichb Freyin von Gudenus 1792, mother of Johann Baptist Heinrich Freiherr von Gudenus (1753-1838), the builder of the hunting lodge Els, daughter of Christoph Ferdinand Graf von Nimptsch , Freiherr von Fürst und Oelse and the Maria Magdalene Countess von Gilleis , Freiin von Sonnberg.
- Church interior
The nave shows itself under a grooved flat ceiling over Ionic pilasters with entablature and simple bandwork stucco from the Baroque era in 1724/1726. The swinging west gallery is from the first half of the 18th century. The round arched triumphal arch is drawn deeply across the width of the choir. The choir has a choir square with a ribbed vault on short services around 1400, the polygon is rounded. The chapel extension in the northern choir corner has a baroque hanging dome on pilasters. The sacristy extension in the southern corner of the choir is vaulted with a stitch cap and has a staircase to the oratory on the upper floor. The choir has two small, renewed three-pass niches to the south.
Furnishing
The high altar bears the statues Peter and Paul from the first half of the 18th century and shows the altarpiece Beheading of St. Pankratius painted by Sepp Zöchling in 1950.
The organ was built with a neo-Gothic case by Josef Breinbauer in 1879. Ferdinand Vötterlechner mentions a bell in 1741.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria north of the Danube 1990 . Els, municipality of Albrechtsberg an der Große Krems, parish church of St. Pancratius with floor plan. Pp. 182-183.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gudenus 1. Retrieved January 21, 2020 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 26 ′ 36.2 " N , 15 ° 22 ′ 20.4" E