Parish Church of Hirtenberg

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Exterior view of the neo-Gothic parish church

The Roman Catholic parish church of Hirtenberg , also known as the Kaiser Jubilee Church , is located in the Lower Austrian community of Hirtenberg . It is consecrated to St. Elisabeth and reports to the Deanery Pottenstein .

description

The church was built by the St. Veit master builder Oscar Fraunlob in neo-Gothic style and donated by the entrepreneurial families Fridolin and Anton Keller on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the reign of Emperor Franz Joseph in 1898. The wooden high altar and the figures are carvings from Val Gardena . In the left niche there is a figure of St. Joseph , the patron saint of work, in the central niche St. Elisabeth, patroness of Hirtenberg and in the right niche St. Pope Urban I , patron saint of wine makers. The left stained glass window shows St. Anthony of Padua and on the right St. Anna with the Blessed Mother Mary.

Web links

Commons : Pfarrkirche Hirtenberg  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. The story of Hirtenberg up to 1945. In: hirtenberg.at. Archived from the original on March 17, 2011 ; accessed on December 8, 2019 .

Coordinates: 47 ° 55 ′ 54 ″  N , 16 ° 10 ′ 31 ″  E