Parish church Kematen on the Krems
The parish church of Kematen an der Krems is located in Kematen in the municipality of Kematen an der Krems in Upper Austria . The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Martin - incorporated into Kremsmünster Abbey - belongs to the Kremsmünster Dean's Office in the Diocese of Linz . The church and the former cemetery are under monument protection .
history
The church was mentioned in a document in 1179. The central nave dates from 1490. The church was restored in 1646 and 1773. In 1949 an interior restoration took place.
architecture
The short Gothic staggered church has a one- bay cross - rib vaulted choir with a five-eighth end. The choir was richly baroque in 1686 with stucco and frescoes . The three- nave nave has a three-bay rib vaulted central nave. The three-axis baroque west gallery is two-story. The northern three-bay cross-rib vaulted aisle has an incomplete five-eighth end. The southern, four-bay, hanging-domed aisle has a straight end, the last eastern bay is a Lady Chapel. The floor of the nave slopes down towards the choir. The northern sacristy was originally a chapel from 1426. The mighty tower is not connected to the other church walls in the western yoke of the southern aisle and has a wedge roof. The former fortified church shows the tower loopholes one and on the north side of the church machicolation . The tower door shows splendid late Gothic fittings.
A Roman relief hunter with a shouldered hare is walled into the garden wall to the rectory .
Furnishing
The baroque interior of the church is a high altar retable from 1774, a pulpit from 1777 and the former high altar picture was painted by Franz Xaver Wagenschön (1774). The statues of the four Latin church fathers at the high altar (from left to right: Ambrosius , Hieronymus , Gregor the Great and Augustine ), a Johann Nepomuk group, a statue of Our Lady and a nativity scene are works by Johann Georg Schwanthaler .
The Gothic baptismal font has a baroque lid.
literature
- Kematen an der Krems, parish church St. Martin. P. 127. 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.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 6 '38.2 " N , 14 ° 11' 28.3" E