Parish church Gottsdorf
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The Gottsdorf parish church is unobstructed on the Danube side in the center of Gottsdorf in the market town of Persenbeug-Gottsdorf in the Melk district in Lower Austria . The Roman Catholic parish church , consecrated to the apostles Peter and Paul , belongs to the deanery Maria Taferl in the diocese of St. Pölten . The church is a listed building ( list entry ).
history
A parish was assumed for the first half of the 12th century and mentioned in a document in 1268. The church was the ecclesiastical center of the Persenbeug area until 1783.
The consecration years 1448, 1466 and 1474 were named for the church. The interior of the church was restored in 1955/1956.
architecture
The church stands unobstructed on the Danube side in a building ensemble of a former cemetery wall, an inn, rectory and an elementary school. The late Gothic, at its core, early Gothic staggered church has a mighty baroque western tower.
- Church exterior
The undivided nave under a steep gable roof has windows from the 17th century and side portals with vestibules from the 19th century. The lower choir from the mid-14th century has buttresses and pointed arched windows. In the southern corner of the choir there is a late Gothic sacristy with barbed window frames from the beginning of the 16th century. The late Gothic tower with beveled slotted windows has a three-zone plaster structure from the 18th century, it has round-arched sound windows with segment-arched roofs and clock gable and wears a pointed onion helmet.
Outside on the south wall of the nave there is an epitaph from 1386 with a minuscule inscription and a high relief of the Man of Sorrows between Peter and Paul and above that Christ on the Mount of Olives with donor figures. Outside in the east of the choir is a tombstone for Paul Johann Winkler 1724 with coat of arms and relief decoration.
- Church interior
The three-aisled, three-bay nave, probably with walls from the 13th century with pointed arches, has ribbed vaults on the elevated central nave between the second and third bay with heraldic shields, on the western consoles with 1520, with cup-shaped keystones. The side aisles are groin vaulted with keystones as in the central nave. The deep west gallery the width of the three naves stands on a round arch arcade and two pointed arch arcades and is vaulted under ribs and has a central nave parapet with tracery. The ogival triumphal arch is little drawn in.
The two-bay choir in the width of the central nave with a five-eighth closure has ribbed vaults on consoles and sculpted keystones.
Furnishing
The high altar from the second half of the 16th century, erected around 1710, is an adikula structure with double columns and cranked entablature, blown gable and extension. Paul Troger painted the high altar sheet Farewell to the Apostles Peter and Paul around 1741/1742.
The organ was built around 1820.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria north of the Danube 1990 . Gottsdorf, parish Persenbeug-Gottsdorf, parish church Hll. Peter and Paul, with floor plan, rectory. Pp. 297-298.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 21.8 " N , 15 ° 6 ′ 33.3" E