Parish church Gschwandt near Gmunden

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Catholic parish church of St. Katharina in Gschwandt
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The Roman Catholic parish church Gschwandt bei Gmunden is located in the municipality of Gschwandt in the Gmunden district in Upper Austria . It is consecrated to St. Catherine and is located in the Deanery Gmunden in the Diocese of Linz . The building is under monument protection ( list entry ).

Location description

The church is in the community of Gschwandt on Hauptstrasse 5. It is surrounded by the former cemetery.

history

The church is first mentioned in a document in 1345. The late Gothic church was built around 1500.

Church building

Church exterior

The church has a west tower with a newer tower and an octagonal pointed helmet. In front of the keel- arched south portal is a vaulted vestibule. The north portal is Gothic.

Church interior

The single-nave nave has four bays. The nave is divided by half-retracted buttresses with semi-circular services . The three-bay choir has moved in and is closed in 3/8. Above it is a beautiful arched net rib , in the variant of the Wechselberg figuration , as can also be found in Pinsdorf and Roitham . The west gallery has three axes and is slightly broken twice. It rests on ribbed vaults.

Furnishing

The decor is neo-Gothic . On the two side altars there are four reliefs and two panel paintings of a late Gothic altar from the end of the 15th century. The reliefs and panels depict saints and apostles. They were restored in 1936. On the left side altar is a statue of the Madonna with a child, which was made around 1500. In the nave is a late Gothic statue of St. Sebastian . The figure from around 1500 is attributed to the circle around Lienhart Astl . In the vestibule of the south portal there is an oil painting depicting the " Annunciation ". It was painted in 1721 and is signed "FIW".

literature

  • DEHIO manual. The art monuments of Austria: Upper Austria. Gschwandt. Parish church hl. Catherine. Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.), Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1977, 6th edition, pp. 100f.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Upper Austria - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. (PDF), ( CSV ). Federal Monuments Office , status: 23 January 2019.

Coordinates: 47 ° 56 ′ 6.8 ″  N , 13 ° 50 ′ 43.7 ″  E