Parish Church of Klein-Pöchlarn
The parish church of Klein-Pöchlarn is raised in the northeast of the market in the market town of Klein-Pöchlarn in the Melk district in Lower Austria . The Roman Catholic parish church consecrated to St. Othmar von St. Gallen belongs to the deanery Maria Taferl in the diocese of St. Pölten . The church and the cemetery are under monument protection ( list entry ).
history
Documented 1391 a branch of Pöchlarn , 1429 and documented 1644 vicariate, documented parish 1792. Surrounded by a cemetery until the end of the 18th century.
The Gothic choir and tower are from the 14th century. The Gothic hall church was completed in the late Gothic style in 1517 with partial use of the walls from the 14th and 15th centuries, the plan change was probably made in connection with the imperial building manager Hans Geyer von Osterburg, caretaker of the Pöchlarn rule (1499–1524). Renovation was carried out in 1893 and restoration in 1968.
architecture
- Church exterior
The nave with a circumferential plinth shows baroque arched windows from 1709 and 1716 in the north and south and partly bricked-up Gothic pointed arch windows and buttresses with water hammer on the north side on the west and east corners of the nave. The north portal was built at the end of the 19th century. The western gable front is hipped. The retracted lower choir has buttresses and two-lane Gothic tracery windows, the southern window is from 1896. The two-storey tower in the southern choir corner at half height merging into an octagon from the first quarter of the 14th century has a brick pyramid helmet with a gable wreath and a crowning tower knob from 1799. The sacristy in the north choir corner is from 1894. South of the nave is a chapel extension with a former holy grave from the 19th century.
The south wall of the nave shows a sundial and contains a late Gothic high relief of Christ on the Mount of Olives with remains of an original polychrome from around 1500/1510. On the north wall of the sacristy is a clay relief tondo Maria with child after Luca della Robbia from 1910.
- Church interior
The late Gothic nave is an almost square three-aisled, three-bay hall with a moving ribbed vault on slim, grooved eight-sided pillars made of plinths with crossed beads. The late Gothic west gallery with a parapet the width of the hall is open to the nave in profiled pointed arch arcades, the gallery is vaulted with a mesh rib vault, the vault shows banners, stonemasons and tartsches on the ribs and the dates 1512 and 1517. In the second yoke of the southern one On the side aisle there is a Gothic pointed arch portal as a former church entrance with a profiled, crossed frame from the 15th century.
The retracted triumphal arch is grooved. The single-bay choir from the 14th century has a five- eighth end and a slight bend in the axis , the ribbed vault has cave-shaped keystones from around 1400. The portal to the sacristy in the north and the barrel-vaulted tower ground floor in the south are from the end of the 19th century.
Furnishing
The high altar was put together in 1968 from parts of the former baroque high altar from 1716. On the east wall is the baroque altarpiece Epiphany by Ursus Viktor Stöbler, the carvings were created by Gerhardachsmacher.
The organ was built by Josef Horak in 1840. Johann Christof Flos mentions a bell in 1683. Ferdinand Vötterlechner mentions a bell in 1757.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria north of the Danube 1990 . Klein-Pöchlarn, parish church St. Othmar, with floor plan, rectory. Pp. 519-520.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 13 ′ 7.5 ″ N , 15 ° 13 ′ 21.6 ″ E