Geiersberg parish church

Parish Church of the Assumption in Geiersberg

The parish church Geiersberg is located in Geiersberg in the municipality of Geiersberg in Upper Austria . The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Leonhard belongs to the deanery Ried im Innkreis in the diocese of Linz . The church is a listed building .

history

The walled south portal, the bell of the tower and the sacristy of the church, mentioned in a document in 1450, have been preserved unchanged. The church was baroque in 1653.

architecture

The single-nave, three-bay square vaulted nave is followed by a single-bay baroque vaulted choir with a three-eighth end. There is a small Gothic sacrament niche in the choir. The north portal of the nave has rich Gothic wrought iron fittings on the door. The west gallery is triaxial. The west tower with a bell house with a star rib vault was baroque in 1737 and a baroque onion helmet was put on.

Furnishing

Georg Obermayr from Passau created the baroque high altar. The angel figures were created by Franz Schwanthaler (1733). The side altars are neo-Romanesque. The baroque pulpit with statues was created by Ludwig Vogl from Ried (1657). On the north wall of the church there is a statue of Our Lady with baby Jesus by Bonaventura Schwanthaler (1701). It was originally located in the well chapel next to the church. There are also the figures Leonhard and Antonius by Bonaventura Schwanthaler. A late baroque crucifix on the south wall from the mid-18th century is from the Schwanthaler workshop. The west gallery bears figures from the 17th and 18th centuries.

Hans Krotentärfer (1512) poured a bell.

literature

• Geiersberg, parish church St. Leonhard. S. 88. In: The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Upper Austria. By Erwin Hainisch , reworked by Kurt Woisetschläger , prefaces to the 3rd edition (1958) and 4th edition (1960) by Walter Frodl , sixth edition, Verlag Anton Schroll & Co., Vienna 1977.

Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 3.2 ″  N , 13 ° 34 ′ 50.7 ″  E