Parish church Gnadendorf
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The parish church Gnadendorf is located in Gnadendorf in the municipality Gnadendorf in Lower Austria . The Roman Catholic parish church consecrated to St. John the Baptist belongs to the Laa-Gaubitsch deanery in the vicariate Unter dem Manhartsberg of the Archdiocese of Vienna . Until September 1, 2016 she was part of the Ernstbrunn Dean's Office . The church is a listed building ( list entry ).
history
A parish was mentioned in a document in 1197. The post-Gothic choir is from the 2nd half of the 16th century. The baroque nave is from the 4th quarter of the 17th century. The west tower is marked 1744.
architecture
The church stands in the southeast of the village in a medieval, well-fortified cemetery wall made of regular ashlar masonry from the 1st half of the 13th century, which was reinforced with non-flush supporting pillars in the 14th century.
The facade of the nave and the retracted choir is not structured. The apse of the polygonal choir has pilasters on the edges and three walled-up, post-Gothic pointed arched windows. The three-storey tower has a mighty base level with an open vestibule with arched openings. The portal shows the indication 1743. On the tower is a niche with the baroque figure of John the Baptist. The tower wears an onion helmet. A two-storey sacristy is attached to the south of the nave.
The interior of the church as a three-bay nave with stucco cap barrels over double belts and double pilasters with a fighting zone has stucco fields. The west gallery is column-free. The retracted triumphal arch is rounded. The two-bay choir with a five-eighth end under a needle cap barrel on consoles has a long-pass-shaped plaster mirror. The end of the choir has a post-Gothic rib vault on circular services with bases and Corinthian capitals.
Furnishing
The high baroque furnishings are from the 1st half of the 18th century. The high altar as a three-part aedicule structure with Corinthian double columns has a discontinued canteen with a tabernacle. On the blasted segment arch gable are angel figures and coats of arms. The high altar shows the altarpiece of the Assumption and the excerpt of the beheading of John the Baptist. The figures Peter and Paul stand above the side portals. At the extension of the high altar are the figures of John Chrisostom and Augustine. On the back of the high altar is a relief by the founder with the inscription Pastor Joh.Voseli d. 1705 .
The side altars around 1720 as richly ornamented picture frame retables carry the carved figures in the center left Pietà and to the side Margaretha and Maria Magdalena and on the gable Michael and angels and on the right center Johannes Nepomuk and on the side angels and on the gable God the Father and on the side Joachim and Anna.
The remarkable pulpit on a brick foot from the 2nd half of the 17th century has carved figures of Mary and the four evangelists in niches on the basket and a three-storey structure with rich figural decorations of the twelve apostles and putti on the sound cover. On the back wall of the pulpit is an oil painting Baptism of Christ.
There are the baroque console figures Leopold and Georg. There is a baroque hanging crucifix from the 3rd quarter of the 18th century. The wrought iron communion grille is baroque.
The organ was built by Josef Silberbauer (1778).
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria north of the Danube 1990 . Gnadendorf, parish church St. Johannes d. T., pp. 280-281.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 36 '53.2 " N , 16 ° 23' 57.1" E