Furth parish church near Göttweig
The parish church of Furth bei Göttweig is located in the market town of Furth bei Göttweig in the Krems-Land district in Lower Austria . The Roman Catholic parish church consecrated to the patronage of Wolfgang von Regensburg - incorporated into the Göttweig monastery - belongs to the Göttweig deanery in the diocese of St. Pölten . The church is a listed building ( list entry ).
history
The construction of the first chapel and the establishment of a brotherhood of Sebastian took place in the first half of the 15th century. The late Gothic choir from the middle of the 15th century has been preserved. The early Baroque nave and the baroque church tower were built from 1614 to 1618 according to plans by Francisco de Silva on behalf of the Sebastian Brotherhood. The church was elevated to a parish church in 1784 . The interior was restored in 1963/1964. The war memorial south of the church with the group of statues mother with children was transferred here from Göttweiger Berg in 1967.
architecture
The parish church is structurally connected to the elementary school and the Meierhof. The rectangular choir adjoins the massive, undivided nave via two streets. The nave under a gable roof has pointed arched windows and a portal and a round window on the western gable wall. The architraved north portal shows the year 1614. A two-storey oratory is attached to the south . The drawn-in rectangular choir with a ridge slightly lower than the nave shows a plaster scratch squaring. Between the two streets below the choir, on the south side, is the three-storey tower built from 1618 onwards with a bell storey with pilasters and entablature and three clocks with coats of arms and the year 1670. The onion helmet was created in 1719 based on a design by Johann Lucas von Hildebrandt . In the east there is a two-storey sacristy extension built after 1800 under a pent roof with a volute gable on the south side .
The baroque four-bay long house under a lance-cap barrel on sturdy pillars with entablature has a three- arched west gallery vaulted with a cruciform ridge on two pillars. The late Gothic choir was divided into two elevated levels in 1727 with two stairways with nine steps each.
The ornamental glass painting dates from 1903. The wall painting of the church was created in 1950 in baroque forms.
Furnishing
The high altar from 1799 by the architect and sculptor Franz Staudinger with a board painting in grisaille by Leopold Mitterhofer was rebuilt in 1810 and shows the altar sheet of Saints Wolfgang and Sebastian under the Trinity by Leopold Mitterhofer (1799) and bears the late baroque statues Urban and Wolfgang from the last quarter of the 18th century. The free-standing altar table with a tabernacle structure was created with Franz Staudinger from 1786 and shows integrated images of Abraham before Melchizedek , Christ in Emmaus by Andreas Rudroff (1812).
Gregor Hradetzky (1972) built the organ in a baroque case . The Fielgrader / Hofbauer company (1801) cast a bell.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria south of the Danube 2003 . Furth near Göttweig, parish church hl. Wolfgang, pp. 466-467.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 22 ′ 24.8 " N , 15 ° 36 ′ 43.2" E