Parish Church Ertl
The Ertl parish church is located in the center of the village of Ertl in the Amstetten district in Lower Austria . The Roman Catholic parish church , consecrated to the Holy Family , belongs to the dean's office in Haag in the diocese of St. Pölten . The church is a listed building ( list entry ).
history
The church was built from 1901 to 1914 according to the plans of the architect Franz Pichlwanger and in 1930 elevated to the status of a parish church. In 1975 the church was restored inside and in 1990 outside.
architecture
The neo-Gothic hall church with a retracted polygonal choir and a choir side tower is oriented to the southwest.
The exterior of the church shows a uniform church building with trickle plaster and smooth plaster surrounds on a rusticated base with two and three-lane tracery windows between stepped buttresses. The nave from 1907/1913 under a crooked roof shows tracery and has a porch in the northwest, and in the north a polygonal gallery staircase with a pointed arch window, and in the northeast central axis a gable entrance porch with a rectangular portal in a pointed arch niche, above a gable niche with the sculpture Saint Family of the sculptor Kunibert Zinner 1981, the inner portal to the nave is profiled and ogival. The choir from 1901/1902 with the same eaves height is roofed lower. The protruding tower from 1901 to 1909 in the northern choir corner has a pointed helmet, it shows a cornice structure and squaring, a tower clock over double acoustic windows, on two sides with a blind gable.
The interior of the church is uniformly neo-Gothic with ribbed vaults on large consoles. The four-bay nave with a four-way widened yoke step divided by belt arches has a traverse-arched organ loft with a timbered tracery parapet on composite cast iron columns in the northeast yoke. The triumphal arch is drawn in and chamfered. The two-bay choir under a ribbed vault closes with a five-eighth closure .
The figural glass paintings in the window tracery are from 1902 to 1914, in the nave four windows show saints from 1956 to 1958.
Furnishing
The neo-Gothic altars were created by the altar builder Ludwig Linzinger, the high altar from 1902 as a pseudo winged altar bears the statues of the Holy Family above a tabernacle with angels, above it the mercy seat and numerous reliefs of saints, the altar table the relief of the Last Supper.
The organ was built by the Upper Austrian Orgelbauanstalt in 1979 in a partially renewed case by Albert Mauracher in 1914.
War memorial
The war memorial north of the church was created by the sculptor Leopold Neu in 1948.
literature
- Ertl, Parish Church of the Holy Family, war memorial north of the church, rectory. In: The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria south of the Danube 2003 . Pp. 411-412.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 58 ′ 35.6 ″ N , 14 ° 37 ′ 52.4 ″ E