Parish church Großreinprechts
The Roman Catholic parish church Großreinprechts stands slightly higher in the south of the village Großreinprechts in the market town of Lichtenau in the Waldviertel in the Krems-Land district in Lower Austria . The parish church consecrated to St. Vitus belongs to the Deanery Zwettl of the diocese of St. Pölten . The church and the cemetery are under monument protection .
history
The essentially Romanesque church building from the 13th century was structurally altered and expanded several times. The south side chapel is from the end of the 17th century. The arched windows were changed and lengthened in 1694. The tower, which is essentially Romanesque, was raised in 1748. The south portal of the nave is from the late 19th century.
architecture
The church is surrounded by a cemetery. The facade of the church building shows a throw of concrete, the nave has a hipped roof and arched windows, the western front has two circular windows above an arched window. The south portal of the nave is rectangular. The horseshoe-shaped apse has slotted windows in the east and a basket arch portal with a skylight to the south. Above the apse there is an irregular nine-cornered tower with slit windows, basket-arch sound windows, and a pyramid roof. In the northeast there is a tower staircase with Gothic three-pass windows. The gallery staircase is built into the southwest corner of the nave. In the south there are two extensions with a monopitch roof, the higher extension forms a side chapel with arched windows, to the west of this, lower than the former sacristy, there is a vestibule with a rectangular portal with plastered framing.
Furnishing
The high altar with a wall structure (formerly with sacrificial portals and altar leaf) has columns with composite capitals with the statues Peter and Paul and in the middle under a canopy carried by angels a small group of figures of the Coronation of Mary from the tabernacle framed with stone volutes. In the cartouche-shaped extract of the high altar is the eye of God .
The holy water font is a hemispherical granite bowl from the 13th century. The octagonal baptismal font over a round base from the 15th century has an octagonal classicist lid. The octagonal Gothic sacrificial box is from the 15th century.
The organ is from 1815. Johann Caspar Hofbauer mentions a bell in 1777.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria north of the Danube 1990 . Großreinprechts, parish church hl. Veit, Friedhof, Pfarrhof, pp. 346–347.
Coordinates: 48 ° 28 ′ 33.1 ″ N , 15 ° 18 ′ 34.3 ″ E