Lengenfeld parish church
The parish church Lengenfeld stands south high above the place in the market town of Lengenfeld in the district of Krems-Land in Lower Austria . The Roman Catholic parish church consecrated to St. Pankratius belongs to the dean's office in Krems in the diocese of St. Pölten . The church and the former fortified cemetery are under monument protection ( list entry ).
history
A parish was founded around 1300 and named in a document in 1312, a vicariate around 1400, and from the end of the 16th century to 1784 a patronage parish.
Originally, in the 11th / 12th Century called a chapel next to a permanent house . In 1897 the church was regotized. In 1981 the exterior was restored with a new roof covering.
architecture
The Gothic church with a Romanesque core and a Gothic choir has a choir tower and is located in a former fortified cemetery (Tabor) and can be reached via a staircase.
- Church exterior
The three-aisled nave has a central nave from around 1300/1320 in the core from the 11th century with a former high entrance with an upper storey with loopholes from the second quarter of the 14th century. The nave with two aisles in the core around the middle of the 13th century was expanded in the second quarter of the 14th century. The originally low monopitch roofs of the side aisles were raised over the top floor of the nave in the 18th century. The upper storey is preserved in the attic. On the side aisles, a pair of brackets has been preserved as the remainder of four large cast cores. The western gable front shows pointed arch windows, one with two lanes and simple tracery. The nave has three-tiered pointed arch portals in the west and south, and buttresses in the north and south. The side aisles are flat closed in the east with bricked-up pointed arch windows.
The one-bay choir from the second quarter of the 14th century has a five-eighth end and buttresses and shows two-lane pointed arch windows with tracery in the polygon. In the north of the choir there is a two-storey sacristy extension from the first half of the 14th century. The stairwell as access to the tower between the nave and the sacristy was originally only accessible from the sacristy like a fortified church, in 1907 an access to the stairwell was built from the outside, for which the late Gothic shoulder arch portal was probably built in 1490 from the former Karner.
The massive transverse rectangular tower from the first half of the 14th century stands across the width of the choir with powerful supporting pillars on the sides above the first half of the choir bay, the tower has coupled arched windows on the upper floor and has a hipped roof with a roof core.
The church shows the wall painting of St. Christophorus from the first quarter of the 16th century.
Furnishing
The neo-Gothic high altar was built in 1902. The pulpit and organ were built by Franz Capek in 1897.
The late Gothic offering box with notch cut decoration was made around 1500. The ten-sided marble baptismal font is from the first half of the 16th century.
Gravestones inside the church
- Relief tombstone Judith von Frideshaim 1588.
- Late Gothic grave slab in a round arch frame with a relief of Mary with child on throne with five kneeling figures, probably the deceased children of the founder Jörg von Seysseneck in 1493 and 1509.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria north of the Danube 1990 . Lengenfeld, community Lengenfeld, parish church St. Pankratius, with floor plan, fortified cemetery, rectory, former Karner. Pp. 662-663.
Web links
- Description of the parish church in - Tietze, Hans: The monuments of the political district of Krems, Verlag Schroll, Vienna, 1907, pages 300–305
Coordinates: 48 ° 28 ′ 14.4 " N , 15 ° 35 ′ 56.5" E