Parish Church of Erla
The Erla parish church is located in Erla in the municipality of St. Pantaleon-Erla in the Amstetten district in Lower Austria . The Roman Catholic parish church consecrated to Saints Peter and Paul belongs to the dean's office in Haag in the diocese of St. Pölten . The church is a listed building ( list entry ).
history
The parish was founded around 1050. Originally the Church of St. Thomas in Moosau, the parish church, this church was profaned in 1786, the last remnants recently demolished.
The former monastery church is structurally connected to the former Benedictine monastery and today 's Erla Castle . The church was regotized in 1862. In 1976 there was a restoration.
architecture
The late Gothic staggered church with an asymmetrical staggered choir has a converted tower at the western end of the north aisle and side extensions.
The compact church building, enclosed by extensions, under a steep gable roof with a continuous ridge shows itself partly with ashlar masonry with neo-Gothic two-lane tracery windows from 1862 in the central choir without posts. The church has simple rectangular portals. The western area is integrated into the monastery; a set-back south wall of the nave with the south portal and pointed arch windows enlarged in 1862 is visible from the nave. The polygonal late Gothic main choir is flanked by side choirs of different depths that close straight, the main choir has gabled buttresses set off twice.
Furnishing
The interior is largely neo-Gothic from the third third of the 19th century.
Engelbert Westreicher created the high altar as a three-part canopy retable in 1867, the altar shows the relief of the Apostles' farewell between the statues of a female saint and St. Jude Squidward.
The Way of the Cross in the style of Josef Führich was created in 1863.
The organ was built by Franz Hötzel in 1850.
literature
- St. Pantaleon-Erla, Erla, Former Benedictine monastery and parish church, Parish church of St. Peter and Paul as a former monastery church with floor plan, grave monuments. In: The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria south of the Danube 2003 . Pp. 1950-1952.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 56.3 " N , 14 ° 34 ′ 11.5" E