Langschwarza parish church
The Roman Catholic parish church Langschwarza is located in Langschwarza in the municipality of Schrems in Lower Austria . The parish church of St. Agidius belongs to the dean's office Waidhofen an der Thaya in the diocese of St. Pölten . The church is a listed building .
history
In 1784 Langschwarza was made a parish. The church was built as a new building according to the plans of the architect Anton Jäckel from 1862 to 1864. 1979 was a restoration.
architecture
The parish church in the southern part of Langschwarza is a neo-Romanesque hall church with transverse arms and a north tower. The three-bay nave and its cross arms are divided by gable facades and the two-bay choir by a circular arched frieze on stepped pilaster strips . The facade is opened by two-lane tracery windows and tracery ooculi. The gable facade lies between two stepped buttresses. It has an arched frieze over two dazzling columns and a tracery oculus. The north tower is crowned by a pointed gable helmet. It has stepped corner pilaster strips , arched and toothed friezes, a shoulder arched door and arched windows, tracery sound windows and pinnacles. The sacristy rises from the chancel, which is accessible through a shoulder arch portal and also has coupled arched windows. The semicircular apse is characterized by a dwarf gallery.
Furnishing
The neo-baroque interior is from the construction period. The high altar as a free-standing cafeteria bears the figures of Peter and Paul and a carved figure of Mary with child. The side altars in the transverse arms show the altarpiece Maria Immaculata on the left and the altarpiece Johannes Nepomuk on the right. The pulpit shows the evangelist symbols in four-pass fields.
The organ was built by Andreas Mauracher the Elder (1864).
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria north of the Danube 1990 . Langschwarza, parish church St. Egidius, south of the church burial chapel, pp. 652–653.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 46 ′ 34.8 " N , 15 ° 6 ′ 51.2" E