Parish church Hof am Leithaberge
The parish church of Hof am Leithaberge is located in the market town of Hof am Leithaberge in the Bruck an der Leitha district in Lower Austria . The patronage of St. Michael is subordinate to the Roman Catholic parish church belonging to the deanery Weigelsdorf in the vicariate Unter dem Wienerwald of the Archdiocese of Vienna . The church is a listed building ( list entry ).
history
In 1443 a parish was named. In 1934 the remains of a charnel house and numerous bones were excavated south of the church. The church was renovated in 1979 and 1995.
architecture
The north aisle, which is Romanesque in its core, and the south aisle, which is probably Gothic, was enlarged in the end of the 17th century by mutually opening the aisles to form a two-aisled baroque single-pillar room and renovated in 1995. The early Gothic two choirs and the centrally positioned Gothic west tower were built around 1300.
The western front is baroque with multiple bent gables and round hatches with pointed arched slit windows and a profiled Gothic pointed arch portal from the 14th century. The tower with originally round arched Gothic sound windows has a double onion helmet.
The south wall of the northern main choir shows the wall painting of two saints from the middle of the 14th century in the window reveal. The stained glass in the nave shows the Annunciation in 1962 and Anna in 1972, in the northern choir Leonhard, Peter, Paul and in the southern choir Maria Immaculata, all in 1901.
Furnishing
The popular altar and lectern, probably from 1995, are supported by a monumental sculpture base in the shape of two hands. The altar table and tabernacle from the former baroque high altar were built around the middle of the 18th century. The former altarpiece of St. Michael hangs right on the south wall of the choir.
The organ was built by Karl Neusser in 1909. Franz Josef Scheichel mentions a bell in 1780.
literature
- Hof am Leithaberge, parish church St. Michael, with floor plan, churchyard, rectory. In: The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria south of the Danube 2003 . Pp. 828-830.
Coordinates: 47 ° 56 ′ 39.1 ″ N , 16 ° 34 ′ 38.9 ″ E