Grafenwörth parish church
The Roman Catholic parish church Grafenwörth is on the main street in Grafenwörth in the market town of Grafenwörth in the Tulln district in Lower Austria . The parish church of St. Andreas - incorporated into the Herzogenburg Monastery - belongs to the Hadersdorf dean's office in the vicariate Unter dem Manhartsberg of the Archdiocese of Vienna . The church is a listed building .
history
After the demolition of the old church, a Josephinian hall was built in 1791 .
architecture
- Exterior
The north-facing church building was designed as an ensemble with the rectory and a former school. A retracted rectangular choir with a retracted flat-arched apse adjoins the nave. The entrance building with a facade with ribbon structure contains a three-storey tower with a bell helmet in the middle. The rectangular portal has a segmented arched gable, above it is a round arched window in a stucco frame. On the two sides of the nave there are two strong supporting pillars with arched windows in between. The sacristy with an oratory above is added to the west of the choir.
- Interior
The tower ground floor is barrel vaulted with a rectangular portal on each side in a stucco marble frame to the two side tower staircases. The two-bay nave has a stitch cap vault between double chords. The organ loft has a flat barrel vault. The choir has an oval cap vault. The entire church interior shows late baroque decorative paintings. The ceiling paintings Calling the Apostle Andrew, Death of St. Andreas, Assumption of Mary was painted by Leopold Mitterhofer . The glass windows are from 1912.
Furnishing
The high altar around 1780 as a classical columnar altar bears the figures of Andreas, Martin and Augustine and a rococo tabernacle with flanking figures of angels. Anton Mayer painted the Stations of the Cross pictures around 1800.
The organ was built by Franz Capek (1925).
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria north of the Danube 1990 . Grafenwörth, parish church hl. Andreas, with floor plan, rectory opposite the church, pp. 307–308.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 24 ′ 35.7 " N , 15 ° 46 ′ 46.7" E