Hartkirchen parish church
The Roman Catholic parish church Hartkirchen is located in Hartkirchen in the parish of Hartkirchen in the Eferding district in Upper Austria . The church, consecrated to St. Stephen , belongs to the deanery Eferding in the diocese of Linz . The church is a listed building .
history
A church was mentioned in a document in 898. Until 1784, the parish also included the community of Aschach an der Donau . The Gothic church was probably built using Romanesque parts and later heavily redesigned in Baroque style.
architecture
The choir, initially Gothic two and a half bays with five-eighth end , is rounded in Baroque style and vaulted with a barrel vault. The nave has five stab cap barrel vaulted yokes between belt arches. The three-axis two-bay west gallery is vaulted with a cross vault. The north aisle with five vaulted net-ribbed yokes, the ribs have been removed, still has some Gothic services. The base of the tower in the southern choir corner is Gothic and marked 1456. The tower was redesigned with the builder Johann Matthias Krinner (1748/1749) and given a helmet and is 37 m high. The choir and the nave were provided with figural and decorative ceiling and wall paintings by the painter Wolfgang Andreas Heindl . In the southern porch is an arched relief of Christ on the Mount of Olives .
Furnishing
The high altar has late Classicist forms, the tabernacle was created by Franz Schneider in the second quarter of the 19th century, the high altar painting Martyr of St. Stephen hangs from the end of the choir, which is decorated with painted pillars. The side altars from the middle of the 18th century. The side altars St. Sebastian and St. Rochus in the north aisle shows paintings by Bartolomeo Altomonte .
Mercè Picó-Kirchmayr created the Way of the Cross (2014).
The sixteen-register organ was created by Josef Hiendl in 1937 .
literature
- Hartkirchen, parish church hl. Stephan. Pp. 109-110. In: The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Upper Austria. By Erwin Hainisch , reworked by Kurt Woisetschläger , prefaces to the 3rd edition (1958) and 4th edition (1960) by Walter Frodl , sixth edition, Verlag Anton Schroll & Co., Vienna 1977.
Coordinates: 48 ° 21 ′ 45.1 ″ N , 14 ° 0 ′ 12.9 ″ E