Parish Church Loosdorf

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Parish church Loosdorf with Karner on the right

The parish church Loosdorf is the parish church of the Roman Catholic parish of the Lower Austrian market town of Loosdorf in the Melk district .

The church, consecrated to St. Lawrence , belongs to the Melk deanery in the diocese of St. Pölten and is a listed building . It was originally built in the 1570s / 1580s as a Protestant prayer house and without a tower. To the south of the church is a charnel house , which probably dates from the 14th century.

history

Loosdorf has been a parish since the first half of the 13th century. The previous church burned down in the course of the 1st Turkish siege of Vienna and was demolished in 1544. The church was rebuilt around 1570 under the Protestant Hans Wilhelm von Losenstein . In the second quarter of the 18th century the church was redesigned and redesigned. From 1730 to 1734 Josef Wissgrill built the facade tower and redesigned the west facade. The church also received a new baroque interior.

Description, equipment and furnishings

Interior view towards the high altar

The hall church has a 4-bay nave and a retracted 2-bay choir . The mighty, three-storey tower with onion helmet and attached lantern is structured by pilasters .

Only one painting from the last quarter of the 16th century remains of the former interior of the Renaissance building. Most of the furnishings today come from the time of the renovation (around 1730), such as the high altar, the side altars and the pulpit, but the images of the Stations of the Cross on the left and right side walls of the nave are a foundation from 1854.

The high altar, a mighty double-columned altar with a broad cartouche and delicate decoration, is probably the work of Antonio Beduzzi . The altarpiece shows the martyrdom of St. Laurentius and above the top picture of the Most Holy Trinity. Both pictures are from Paul Troger . The coat of arms between the paintings commemorates the Barons von Tinti, who were patrons of the parish from 1762 to 1940.

The hanging pulpit with a bulbous basket is made of marbled wood . It is richly decorated and has a sturdy sound cover. The symbolic figures represent faith, hope and love and the two reliefs depict the flight from Egypt and the stigmatization of St. Francis.

Organ of the parish church

The organ with 2 manuals and 17 registers from 1893 is the work of Konrad Neusser, who reused and partially added to the existing baroque case. In 2012 it was completely renovated and the original condition (register) restored.

Karner

The Karner is mentioned in a document in 1499. A two-bay, polygonal, closed building made of exposed quarry stone masonry with buttresses under a gable roof and with pointed arched windows. There was a chapel on the upper floor and the ossuary in the lower floor . The building has meanwhile been profaned and was renovated in 1974/75.

Web links

Commons : Parish Church Loosdorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Dehio manual : The art monuments of Austria: Lower Austria - south of the Danube, part 1: Loosdorf; Parish church hl. Lorenz ; Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.), Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85028-364-X
  2. ↑ a b c According to the information board in the anteroom of the church; accessed on April 14, 2018
  3. ↑ Parish Loosdorf: church music ; accessed on April 16, 2018

Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 54.6 ″  N , 15 ° 24 ′ 1.6 ″  E