Parish church Gablitz
The Roman Catholic parish church of Gablitz is elevated above the town of Gablitz in the market town of Gablitz in the St. Pölten-Land district in Lower Austria . The church consecrated to St. Lawrence belongs to the Purkersdorf deanery in the vicariate Unter dem Wienerwald of the Archdiocese of Vienna . The church building is a listed building .
history
In the 12th century a chapel was mentioned. After the chapel was repaired or rebuilt, it was consecrated on March 3, 1643 by the auxiliary bishop Bartholomäus. Today's church was built in 1928 as a war memorial church, incorporating the previous Baroque building from 1642. In 1962/63 the church tower was added and the war memorial was erected on its northeast side. In 1969 the sacristy was added and in 1970 the sanctuary was redesigned and a people's altar was erected.
Gablitz was a branch of Mauerbach from 1411 until the charterhouse was dissolved in 1782 , after which it belonged to the Purkersdorf parish. In 1937 Gablitz became an independent parish. Since October 1st, 2012 the parishes of Maria Himmelfahrt (Mauerbach) and Maria Rast (Steinbach) have been forming a pastoral care room with the parish of St. Laurentius in Gablitz.
architecture
- Church exterior
The south-west facing nave with round windows and a drawn-in semicircular apse was built alongside the original chapel and connected by three wall openings, so that the chapel with the hipped roof has the function of a vestibule. The high church tower with slit windows and a pyramid roof was added to the south-east face of the chapel. The sgraffito on the south side of the church tower was created by the painter Rudolf Pleban .
- Church interior
The three-bay long house is vaulted by a pointed arch barrel with massive bevelled belt arches. The apse niche is lower. The three-bay vestibule with groined vaults on pillars with profiled spars from 1642 has a square vault from the third quarter of the 18th century with an inserted organ gallery in the eastern yoke.
The stained glass around 1928 show the Saints Johannes, Antonius, Jakob, Maria with child, Leopold and Georg, in the vestibule symbols of the cardinal virtues.
Furnishing
The presbytery was redesigned around 1970 with a bronze crucifix by Horst Aschermann . The high altar of the original chapel (now vestibule) is a baroque aedicular altar with double column structure and a central Pietà , flanked by statues depicting the hll. Laurentius (left with grate, church patron) and Bruno (right with skull, founder of the Carthusian order).
Johann Caspar Hofbauer (1806) cast a bell .
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria south of the Danube 2003 . Gablitz, parish church St. Lorenz, p. 474.
Web links
- Renate Grimmlinger: The Laurenzius Chapel in Gablitz and the conflict from 1642 - a historical search for traces (Heimatmuseum Gablitz May 1, 2014)
Individual evidence
- ^ Renate Grimmlinger: Chronicle of Gablitz to 1900 ; Gablitz 2013 ( online )
- ↑ a b Lt. Information board on site; accessed on June 5, 2017
- ↑ Mauerbach parish gazette, number 3/12 - June 2012
- ↑ Renate Grimmlinger: Historical walk through Gablitz , Gablitz 2011 ( online )
Coordinates: 48 ° 13 '37.8 " N , 16 ° 9' 2.7" E