Parish church Grafensulz
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The parish church Grafensulz is located in Grafensulz in the market town of Ladendorf in Lower Austria . The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Aegyd belongs to the deanery of Laa-Gaubitsch 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 .
history
The street village Grafensulz is located south of the Leiserberge in the so-called Leisergrund. The church was mentioned in the 14th and 15th centuries as a feudal parish of the Wallseer on Asparn. Documented from 1560 a parish church. The Church is incorporated into the Order of the Minorites.
architecture
The parish church was built outside the village and is surrounded by a cemetery. The initially late Romanesque nave with a flat ceiling with a retracted square choir dating from the 13th century was extended to the west by a nave yoke.
- Church exterior
The church is unstructured and at the corners with unplastered Romanesque ashlar work. The west facade is baroque with a curved gable over a cornice. The massive south tower stands in the middle in front of the nave, the basement as a rectangular building, above it with quarry stone masonry with rectangular windows and arched sound windows, has an eight-sided pyramid roof. In the south of the choir, the former Romanesque charnel house from the 12th century has been added and preserved with a round apse and is connected to the tower by a sacristy.
- Church interior
The three-bay nave has a cross vault with plastered ridges and a stuccoed four-pass mirror in the middle and a swinging organ gallery in the west. The triumphal arch is drawn in and round-arched. The raised choir square has a late Romanesque cross rib vault with a rosette keystone and beveled ribs on round console stones. The tower ground floor is groin vaulted. The southern chapel extension and former karner has a groin vault and an apse conche.
Furnishing
The high altar as a baroque columned retable from the 1st half of the 18th century with the Trinity essay shows the altarpiece Aegyd by the painter Boniface (1953). The right side altar shows an oil painting of Mary and Child from the 2nd half of the 19th century in a late Baroque frame. The pulpit is from the 2nd half of the 18th century. A votive picture is from 1774.
The holy water basin and the ten-sided baptismal font are made of red marble from around 1500 with stonemason's marks.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria north of the Danube 1990 . Grafensulz, parish church St. Aegyd, wayside shrine at the southern entrance to the town, pp. 306–307.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 32 '58.5 " N , 16 ° 26' 54.5" E