Parish church Mitterndorf an der Fischa
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The parish church Mitterndorf an der Fischa stands in the middle of the village set back on the main street in the municipality of Mitterndorf an der Fischa in the Baden district in Lower Austria . The Roman Catholic parish church consecrated to St. Catherine of Alexandria belongs to the dean's office Schwechat in the vicariate Unter dem Wienerwald of the Archdiocese of Vienna . The church and the cemetery are under monument protection ( list entry ).
history
A chapel was founded in a document in 1325. Documented in 1407 a parish. A branch of the Unterwaltersdorf parish church since the 16th century . 1773 parish again.
Today's church was built in 1775 by master mason Johann Nicolaus Stein on the foundation walls of a late Gothic church with a rectangular choir.
architecture
The baroque hall church is surrounded on three sides by a quarry stone wall of the former cemetery.
The exterior of the church shows a baroque nave, which is essentially early Gothic, as an exposed stone building with a baroque basket arch, the facade shows a plaster band structure and segmented arched windows. The slightly recessed entrance hall of the baroque reoriented church was originally the rectangular choir of the early Gothic predecessor church. The upright rectangular portal has a stone wall and a doubled wooden baroque door leaf from the construction period. The church has a roof turret with an onion helmet on a hipped roof. In the north is a baroque staircase with a spiral staircase to the organ gallery and the roof structure. In the north a rectangular sacristy is built under a gable roof.
The interior of the church shows a three-bay nave under square vaults between double belts. The organ loft was incorporated into the former choir area and now the entrance hall with a flat ceiling. The baroque sacristy has a flat ceiling with a baroque, curved stucco-cut mirror.
The glass painting Herz Mariä und Franz von Assisi was created in Innsbruck in 1909.
Furnishing
The baroque sarcophagus-shaped altar table with tabernacle between kneeling angel figures, it shows the altar sheet Mystical Marriage of St. Katharina painted Josef Kastner in 1883 in the same frame.
Josef Keszler created the Stations of the Cross pictures in 1885. A grave of Christ and a heart of Jesus were created around 1900.
Franz Stommer built the organ as a parapet in 1888.
literature
- Mitterndorf an der Fischa, parish church St. Catherine. In: The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria south of the Danube 2003 . Pp. 1454-1455.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 59 ′ 51.4 " N , 16 ° 28 ′ 13.7" E