Parish Church of Gastern
The parish church of Gastern stands a little higher in the southwest of the village of Gastern in the market town of Gastern in the Waidhofen an der Thaya district in Lower Austria . The Roman Catholic parish church consecrated to St. Martin of Tours belongs to the dean's office in Waidhofen an der Thaya in the diocese of St. Pölten . The church is a listed building ( list entry ).
history
The place is a foundation of the Garsten Abbey . A church was mentioned in a document around 1180. Documented in 1327 as a branch of the parish church Thaya, the church was raised to a parish church in 1784.
In 1904/1905 the parish church was rebuilt under the supervision of Richard Jordan . Restorations were in 1936, 1951 and 1978.
architecture
The west-facing neo-Romanesque hall church with a side front tower shows itself with unplastered granite blocks.
The church exterior shows arched and circular windows under the final console cornice. The gable front shows a more elaborate group of windows. The church has barrel vaulted porches on pillars in the east and south. The tower on the southeast corner has coupled sound windows in the slightly retracted bell storey and has a pyramid helmet also made of granite stones.
The interior of the church shows itself as a simple elongated nave under a wooden beam ceiling with a slightly indented apse.
Furnishing
The high altar as a neo-Romanesque shrine from the construction period bears the statues Leopold, Martin, Floria, the predella reliefs show Old Testament half-figures.
The evangelist reliefs of the former pulpit are now on the people's altar (Mark, Luke, John) and on the ambo (Matthew).
The organ was built by the Mauracher brothers in 1951.
literature
- Gastern, parish church St. Martin, wayside shrines, In: The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria north of the Danube 1990 . Pp. 245-246.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 53 ′ 38.5 ″ N , 15 ° 13 ′ 13 ″ E