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The Lehen parish church is located in Lehen in the market town of Leiben in the Melk district in Lower Austria . The Roman Catholic parish church of the Ebersdorf parish , consecrated to St. Blaise von Sebaste , belongs to the Maria Taferl dean's office in the diocese of St. Pölten . The church and the churchyard are under monument protection ( list entry ).
location
The church stands on a hill that slopes steeply to the Danube in the village of Lehen northeast of Ebersdorf in the market town of Leiben.
history
A castle that was expanded in the 9th and 10th centuries and in the 11th and 12th centuries was mentioned in documents around 1120/1130 and in 1310 it was mentioned as deserted. In 1472 a well-fortified Tabor was mentioned in a document taking into account the church. The Tabor was expanded into a castle in 1481.
Today the parish church with the remains of the former cemetery wall with the rectory in the northwest and a school building in the north forms the churchyard of a former castle complex.
In a document there was a vicariate of the mother parish in Weiten around 1310. A separate parish was mentioned in a document in 1336.
In 1984 the foundations of a previous Romanesque building with a rectangular chancel were excavated. The tower and two buttresses on the nave are preserved from the Gothic church building from the 15th century. Today's baroque hall was built around 1755/1765, partly including the early Gothic walls. The western front attached to the nave is probably from 1893. In 1963/1965 the church was restored inside and in 1977/1978 outside.
architecture
The baroque hall building has a low Gothic north tower.
- Church exterior
The nave and the slightly drawn-in rectangular choir under a shared hipped roof show a corner pilaster structure and windows with curved segmental arches in wedge framing on the facade. In the southwest, the nave has a stepped buttress and another buttress set at right angles. The western front contains an entrance hall with side chapels from 1893. The two-storey tower from the end of the 15th century, placed in the middle of the north of the nave, merges into an octagon and has a renewed pyramid helmet, the tower has slotted windows in the basement and has ogival sound windows with cloverleaf arches Reveals on the upper floor. To the east of the tower there is a sacristy around 1900 with a portal under a pent roof.
The war memorial on the east wall was built in 1932.
- Church interior
The two-bay nave and the broad rectangular choir show themselves under plaza vaults on belt arches made of stepped bundles of pilasters with cranked, profiled fighter panels or circumferential cranked fighter cornice in the choir room. The two eastern bundles of pilasters of the nave are concave and widened to the strongly drawn-in triumphal arch. The arched west gallery has a bulging parapet and is open to the nave in a wide pressed and two narrow side arches over squat pillars or pilasters. The two-bay sacristy has transverse barrels over belt arches on the site of a former early Gothic chapel from the beginning of the 14th century. The first floor of the tower is vaulted and has a pointed arched portal to the sacristy from the beginning of the 14th century.
The stained glass Christ on the Mount of Olives and Pietà in the chapels on the western front name Carl Geyling's heirs and Lucia Jirgal, respectively, in 1960.
Jakob Wurzer names a grave slab in the floor of the nave with a relief of Resurrection in 1659 or 1689.
Furnishing
The high altar from 1788 has a strict wall structure with pillars on the side and a pressed cartridge pull-out. It shows the high altar picture Beheading of St. Blasius by Martin Johann Schmidt 1795. He carries the statues Peter and Paul from the second half of the 18th century from the former left side altar. The extract from Mariahilf is from the second half of the 18th century.
The organ was built by Joseph Horak in 1853.
Churchyard
The churchyard was a cemetery until 1893 and has a surrounding wall partly made of quarry stone with walled-up windows and remains of the former 12th century castle. In the southeast corner there is a heart-shaped gravestone with a crowning cross belonging to the Stocker family in 1802 and 1817. The new cemetery is to the southeast away from the church.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria north of the Danube 1990 . Ebersdorf, community Leiben, parish church hl. Blasius, with floor plan, churchyard, cemetery, school. Pp. 138-139.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 13 '38.9 " N , 15 ° 15' 46.3" E