Parish church Hainburg on the Danube
The Roman Catholic parish church of Hainburg an der Donau stands in the middle of the main square of the municipality of Hainburg an der Donau in the district of Bruck an der Leitha in Lower Austria . The parish church , consecrated to Saints Philip and James , belongs to the Deanery Hainburg in the Vicariate Unter dem Wienerwald of the Archdiocese of Vienna . The church is a listed building .
history
A chapel of St. James and St. Catherine is documented from 1236, which was expanded with a choir around 1400 and was officially elevated to a parish church in 1628. The early Baroque hall church with low transept arms and a Gothic choir was planned in 1685 and completed before 1706. The church tower in the east was built in 1756 with Mathias Gerl .
Furnishing
The high altar from 1713 based on a design and with an altarpiece by Hans Michael Beckhl was created with the sculptors Mathias Roth and Jeremias Weißkopf.
The organ from 1982 is from Orgelbau Reinisch-Pirchner . There is a so-called Turkish bell by Ignaz Hilzer from 1865, a casting of the former bell from 1685.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria south of the Danube 2003 . Hainburg, parish church hll. Philip and James, p. 684ff.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 8 '50.9 " N , 16 ° 56' 28.4" E