Parish church Gföhl
The Roman Catholic parish church of Gföhl is located in the municipality of Gföhl in the Krems-Land district in Lower Austria . The church consecrated to St. Andrew belongs to the dean's office in Krems in the diocese of St. Pölten . The church building is a listed building .
history
A church was first mentioned in documents in 1327 and initially belonged to the parish of Meisling as a branch church. A new building of the church in the middle of the 17th century was followed by today's church building from 1715 to 1720, which was consecrated in 1724. Damage was caused by local fires in 1748 and 1820. As a result, the church gradually received 19th century furnishings .
architecture
The stately baroque parish church has a west tower that is essentially medieval. The church has an almost square nave and a narrower, long choir with a flat rounded apse. The mighty, four-story west tower with the main portal and the entrance hall stands in front of the west facade. It has a simplified baroque structure. In 1885 it was expanded to its current height and received a multi-curved, richly profiled onion helmet. A stone coat of arms of the Sinzendorf from the 1st half of the 17th century is embedded in the wall above the main portal with triangular gable .
The three- bay hall and the retracted, two-bay choir are vaulted by flat barrels with stitch caps and belt arches that lie on a horizontally continuous, strongly profiled cornice and are supported by mighty pilasters. The ornamental glass painting is from 1895. The baroque ceiling frescoes from 1955 were created by the painter Wolfram Köberl . Above the doors to the choir galleries on both sides are round medallions with frescoes of St. Leopold and Nikolaus from 1820 received.
Furnishing
The high altar from 1821 by Simon Daun has an altarpiece with St. Andreas by Jakob Preitschopf. The rotating tabernacle was made by Franz Mayerhofer in 1823 . The essay picture St. Andreas Schickner painted Anna Maria teaching reading in 1926. The side altars, on the left a crucifixion, on the right St. Sebastian created Franz Dobiaschofsky in 1861. Next to the right side altar is the red marble baptismal font from 1672.
The organ case from 1820 on the west gallery received a new work by Gregor Hradetzky in 1975 .
In the tower hall there is a war memorial by Max Ferstel from 1920.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria north of the Danube 1990 . Gföhl, parish church St. Andreas, pp. 266-267.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 30 ′ 59.4 " N , 15 ° 29 ′ 26.5" E