Parish church of Etsdorf am Kamp
The Roman Catholic parish church of Etsdorf am Kamp is on the thoroughfare of the village of Etsdorf am Kamp in the market town of Grafenegg in the Krems-Land district in Lower Austria . The church consecrated to St. James the Elder belongs to the Hadersdorf deanery in the vicariate Unter dem Manhartsberg of the Archdiocese of Vienna . The church is a listed building .
history
A vicariate was accepted for the first half of the 12th century. In 1231 a fiefdom parish of the Diocese of Passau was mentioned in a document. The parish became sovereign in 1803.
architecture
The baroque hall building with a medieval core has a Gothic baroque choir and a baroque west tower.
Furnishing
The high altar around 1770 as a three-tier wall structure fitted into the apse shows the high altar sheet St. James, painted by Josef Kessler (1876).
The organ was built by Gerhard Hradetzky (1976).
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria north of the Danube 1990 . Etsdorf am Kamp, community of Etsdorf-Haitzendorf (August 2003) renamed to Grafenegg, parish church hl. Jakob d. Ä., With floor plan, rectory, pp. 204–205.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 26 ′ 42.8 " N , 15 ° 44 ′ 28.9" E