Parish church Großschönau
The Roman Catholic parish church Großschönau is located in Großschönau in the market town of Großschönau in Lower Austria . The parish church of St. Leonhard belongs to the deanery of Gmünd in the diocese of St. Pölten . The church with the cemetery wall is a listed building .
history
A vicariate was mentioned in a document in 1305. In 1319 the patronage went to the Zwettl monastery . In 1332 the church was elevated to a parish church. In the middle of the 15th century the church was incorporated into Zwettl Abbey. The initial patronage of St. Laurentius was in 1478 on St. Leonhard changed. 1891 and 1907 were renovations. 1952/1953, 1956 and 1964 were restorations.
architecture
The church stands in the center of Großschönau a little higher in the south of the Länganger and is surrounded by the wall of the former cemetery. With the rectory in the west, the church was initially part of a Kuenring castle church complex. The initially Romanesque east tower church was expanded with a Gothic choir and the nave was later changed.
The essentially Romanesque east tower between nave and choir was renewed after a collapse between 1764 and 1767, the onion helmet was given the year 1959 after a change. The polygonal choir around 1400 has simple stepped buttresses and one and two-lane tracery windows. On the south side of the choir is a baroque sacristy extension from the 18th century, which was raised in 1843 with an oratorio. On the north side of the choir is a two-storey oratorio extension from the mid-19th century, with the choir front facing the Anger being symmetrically aligned. The simple nave with baroque arched windows has a Gothic shoulder arch portal on the south side.
The initially Romanesque nave was built around 1400/1. In the middle of the 15th century, it was redesigned into a three-aisled five-bay hall. The central nave in the width of the drawn-in Romanesque triumphal arch with narrower aisles is reversed up to the first west bays with a narrower central nave and slightly wider aisles. The east yokes in front of the triumphal arch are lower like a pre-choir. The cross-ribbed vault of the nave above eight-sided pillars with battlement plates and neck rings shows keystones with painted coats of arms. The eastern keystones are decorated with rosettes and a head.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria north of the Danube 1990 . Großschönau, parish church St. Leonhard, in the center of the village, parsonage, pp. 351–352.
Coordinates: 48 ° 39 ′ 7.9 ″ N , 14 ° 56 ′ 31.1 ″ E