Parish church Kürnberg
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The parish church of Kürnberg stands on a mountain in the church settlement Kürnberg in the market town of St. Peter in der Au in the district of Amstetten in Lower Austria . The Roman Catholic parish church , consecrated to St. James the Elder , belongs to the Hague deanery in the diocese of St. Pölten . The church and the cemetery are under monument protection ( list entry ).
history
Presumably a branch of the Weistrach parish church in the 11th century . From the 14th century vicariate of the parish church Behamberg several times . In 1666 the church was re-Catholicized as a branch of the parish church Behamberg. In 1858 the church became a parish church.
In 1996 the foundations of a Romanesque hall church with a rectangular choir were excavated. After the demolition, a larger Romanesque square choir with a southern chapel was built. With a conversion in the second half of the 14th century, a Gothic choir with a five-eighth closure was built, the nave was extended to the west, and a chapel corresponding to the southern chapel was added to the north and the tower was built. After a fire, the church was extensively redesigned from 1771 to 1784 and a sacristy was added to the north of the choir. In 1996/1997 the church was restored inside and in 1989 outside.
architecture
The late baroque church building with basilica, quasi three-aisled yokes in front of the retracted choir has a Gothic tower on the south side of the nave.
With the renovation in 1771/1784, the interior of the church shows a four-bay nave in the east with two-bay aisles of the converted former chapels basilically expanded, the nave is with a uniform square vault over belts, in the wider central nave on pilasters, in the side aisles from cornice consoles, with arcade windows in arched niches , with side aisle windows in cloverleaf arch niches, in the south aisle there is a late Gothic round arch opening to the gallery in the tower in the west. The neo-baroque gallery around 1912 occupies the single-nave western nave area and is two-storey in the west bay on Tuscan columns or carved stands, the gallery shows a paneled parapet in the middle section protruding convexly. The baroque triumphal arch is drawn in and chamfered on the long house side. The one-bay choir is vaulted and closes with a basket-arched conche.
The wall paintings show pseudo-architecture with floral elements around 1771/1784. In the whole interior there are neo-baroque vault paintings with scenes from the life of Mary by the painter Rupert Lorenz in 1909, 1963 and 1997 restored.
Furnishing
The high altar as a late baroque columned retable shows the altar sheet Holy Family with plague victims by the painter Franz Xaver Gürtler in 1788 and bears the statues Jakobus the Elder and Francis of Assisi, as well as angel figures at the base and above the standing volute tabernacle.
The organ in a neo-baroque case was built by Johann Lachmayr in 1912.
literature
- St. Peter in der Au, Kürnberg, parish church St. James d. Ä. with floor plan, churchyard. In: The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria south of the Danube 2003 . Pp. 1965-1966.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 0 ′ 26.9 ″ N , 14 ° 32 ′ 41.4 ″ E