Parish Church Harmanschlag
The Roman Catholic parish church Harmanschlag is located in Harmanschlag in the market town of St. Martin in Lower Austria . The parish church of St. Wenzel belongs to the deanery of Gmünd in the diocese of St. Pölten . The church and the cemetery are under monument protection .
history
In the middle of the 13th century and 1395 a parish was mentioned. The church was initially a Romanesque church with a west tower and was rebuilt from 1497 to 1523 into a late Gothic hall church. In 1544 the parish was vacant. In 1627 the church became a branch church of St. Martin. In 1784 the church was raised again to a parish church. In 1894/1895 a neo-Gothic extension and the addition of a choir took place under the direction of the master builder Ignaz Knapp .
architecture
The raised parish church, surrounded by a cemetery, has a mighty Romanesque west tower with a Gothic shoulder arch portal. In 1746 the tower was raised and received round arched sound windows and a baroque bell helmet. The nave - in its core Romanesque - and the single-bay choir with five-eighth end and buttresses have gothic pointed arch windows from 1894/1895. A sacristy was added to the north of the choir in the first half of the 19th century. The outside of the church shows a crucifix from the 2nd half of the 19th century, tombstones from 1677 and 1849 and a tombstone as an iron pillar from 1866.
The nave, as a former Romanesque hall, was converted into a two-aisled, three-bay hall with a Gothic ribbed vault made of two octagonal pillars and wall pillars, and in 1894/1895 an eastern yoke was added with a third octagonal support and a ribbed triple beam to the drawn-in, chamfered triumphal arch. The organ gallery has a neo-Gothic wooden parapet. The choir from 1894/1895 has a ribbed vault on polygonal consoles. The stained glass from 1895 are ornamental and figurative at the end of the choir with Josef, Wenzeslaus and Anna.
Furnishing
The neo-Gothic altars and the pulpit were created by the sculptor Ludwig Linzinger (1895). The high altar as a free-standing tabernacle altar and the side altars as a three-part retable with niche figures carry Barbara, Maria and Agnes on the left and Florian, Herz Jesu, Leonhard on the right. The pulpit on a stone base shows reliefs of the evangelists and the teaching Christ. The crucifix is from the 2nd half of the 19th century. The Romanesque baptismal font is on the tower ground floor. The Stations of the Cross are from 1883.
The organ was built by Lukas Koller (1839).
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria north of the Danube 1990 . Harmanschlag, parish church St. Wenzel, Former Rectory, p. 397.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 39 ′ 8.2 ″ N , 14 ° 47 ′ 16 ″ E