Parish church Lichtenwörth
The Roman Catholic parish church of Lichtenwörth is located in the market town of Lichtenwörth in Lower Austria . The parish church of St. Jakobus the Elder belongs to the deanery Wiener Neustadt in the vicariate Unter dem Wienerwald of the Archdiocese of Vienna . The church is a listed building .
history
A parish was mentioned in a document before 1174 in 1387. The parish went in 1493 with Emperor Friedrich III. to the Diocese of Wiener Neustadt . From 1508 to 1533 the Order of St. George ruled the parish and then went back to the Diocese of Wiener Neustadt. The initially three-aisled nave with a one-bay choir (building inscription 1476) was documented (1580) with the overbuilding of the choir bay with an extension of a transept and closed (1582) with a choir polygon. The nave, transept and choir polygon under an emergency roof and the post-Gothic west tower (1580) were completed as a neo-Gothic basilica from 1887 to 1889 according to the plans of the architect Richard Jordan and consecrated in 1889. Wall painting that was exposed at the time is no longer visible today.
architecture
The church stands at the southern end of the main street on Kirchenplatz in a walled churchyard, which was the cemetery until 1788. The tall basilica church building with a transept and a retracted choir polygon has a slender facade tower set to the west.
Furnishing
Ferdinand Bail built the neo-Gothic altars.
The organ in a neo-Gothic case was built by the Rieger brothers in Jägerndorf (1906).
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria south of the Danube 2003 . Lichtenwörth, parish church hl. James d. Ä., Kirchhof, Pfarrhof, pp. 1189–1190.
Coordinates: 47 ° 49 ′ 57.4 " N , 16 ° 17 ′ 45.2" E