Parish Church of Liebenau
The parish church of Liebenau is in the village of Liebenau in the market town of Liebenau in the district of Freistadt in Upper Austria . The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Josef belongs to the dean's office Unterweißbach in the diocese of Linz . The church is a listed building .
history
The first planning of a church under Mr. von Ruttenstein Count Norbert Anton von Salburg was documented in 1745. The church was built from 1754 to 1755 as a branch church of the Unterweißbach parish church and raised to parish church in 1757. The church with its original flat ceiling was vaulted in 1776 and provided with outer buttresses. In 1833 a yoke was added to the nave at the location of the choir, the choir was moved and rebuilt in 1836. Extensions were made in the second half of the 20th century: from 1962 to 1963 a tower staircase and a connection to a residential building to the west with a small, arched porch. From 1973 to 1974 a structural connection to the rectory in the southeast was built. In 1975 a funeral hall was added to the north behind the tower vestibule. In 1985 a working day chapel was added to the north of the choir.
architecture
The parish church is slightly raised north of the thoroughfare. To the south is the cemetery. The six-bay nave with a barrel cap barrel above shallow wall pillars is followed by a single-bay retracted choir with barrel cap barrel, polygonal on the outside and rounded inside. The uniform gable roof is hipped over the choir. In the southern corner of the choir is the two-storey groin-vaulted extension with sacristy and oratory, to the north is the low weekday chapel. The mighty tower in front of it in the west has a strongly constricted onion dome. The break of the extension from 1833 is clearly visible on the older western part of the nave to the north by the four supporting pillars and on the slightly protruding former eastern corner of the nave. The nave and the choir have long, high arched windows. The end of the choir is windowless. The southern rectangular portal shows the designation 1754. The vault painting in the nave and choir shows scenes from the life of St. Joseph, marriage of Joseph and Mary, adoration of the shepherds, annunciation to Joseph, flight to Egypt. There are two coat of arms fields on the triumphal arch wall. The stained glass in the choir from the end of the 19th century shows figuratively St. Family and the death of St. Joseph.
Furnishing
The high altar by Franz Oberhuber from 1887 is a three-niche retable with a raised center in the arched style and bears the figures of Joseph, flanked by Joachim and Anna, and in the excerpt the relief God the Father with the Holy Spirit dove. The side altars as a baroque double column retable with extract from around 1680 bear the figures of Maria with Child as a copy of the baroque Madonna von Riedegg and the extract picture St. Catherine from the end of the 17th century flanked by the figures of St. Aloisius and St. Barbara by Hans Leopold Weiß from the end of the 19th century and on the right the central figure St. Anthony from the middle of the 18th century and the excerpt picture St. Martin from the 17th century flanked by the figures of St. Francis of Assisi and St. Leonhard von Hans Leopold Weiß from the end of the 19th century. The neo-Romanesque pulpit by Hans Leopold Weiß from the end of the 19th century has a polygonal basket with statuettes of the four evangelists in romanized arcades.
The neo-Romanesque neo-Gothic west gallery on bundled wooden supports shows a gallery parapet by Hans Leopold Weiß from the end of the 19th century with small arcades with the statuettes of St. Theresa, Emperor Heinrich, St. Gregory, Charlemagne, St. Leopold and St. Clare. The parapet organ by Leopold Breinbauer from 1893/1894 with a neo-Romanesque neo-Gothic case carries the figure of St. Cäcilia and has a mechanical cone chest with one manual and ten stops . Jakob Hagenauer cast a bell in 1784.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Mühlviertel 2003 . Liebenau, parish church St. Josef, Friedhof, Pfarrhof, pp. 425–426.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 31 '55.3 " N , 14 ° 48' 27.8" E