Parish Church Nöchling
The parish church Nöchling stands at the east end of the market square in the market town of Nöchling in the Melk district in Lower Austria . The Roman Catholic parish church consecrated to St. James the Elder belongs to the deanery Maria Taferl in the diocese of St. Pölten . The church and the cemetery are under monument protection ( list entry ).
history
The daughter parish or branch of St. Oswald was mentioned in a document in 1160. A parish was founded in 1681.
architecture
The church shows itself as a Biedermeier nave with a late Gothic choir and tower. The church is surrounded by a cemetery to the east.
- Church exterior
The nave with the chronogram on the west facade 1839/1841 shows itself with arched windows and a strongly profiled eaves under a hipped roof. The retracted lower late Gothic choir has two-lane tracery windows. The Gothic tower in the southern choir corner with a coffin cornice has two-storey chamfered slotted windows and a small pointed arch window on the upper floor, it has a curved pyramid helmet over a profiled cornice around 1840. The simple sacristy extension with a northern choir corner was built around 1840. There is a west facade framed with double strips a console figure of Johannes Nepomuk from the second quarter of the 18th century.
On the south wall of the nave there is a tombstone with a cross for schoolmaster Emanuel Johann Fischer in 1779 and 1689.
- Church interior
The three-bay nave is vaulted over the groin with coupled belt arches on a profiled cornice on pillars with double stripes in front. The vaulted three-axis west gallery is open to the nave with a basket arch arcade. The triumphal arch has moved in.
The two-bay choir under a ribbed vault with looping ribs on services closes with a three-eighth closure around 1500.
The stained glass was created by the Rudolf Nagl company and shows Christ on the Mount of Olives and the Transfiguration on Mount Tabor in the end of the choir, and to the side Theresia and Elisabeth, Antonius Eremit and Leopold, Anna and Joachim, in the nave Katharina, Hippolyt, Notburga, Isidor, Antonius of Padua and Cäcilia.
Furnishing
The high altar from 1690 by Sebastian Kaninger has a structure with columns on the side and bears the figures of Joachim and Anna, the middle part of the altar was changed in 1932 and opened to the end of the choir window, the free-standing cafeteria has a tabernacle from the fourth quarter of the 18th century.
The organ front and the organ parapet were created around 1840, the work was created by Franz Josef Swoboda in 1909.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria north of the Danube 1990 . Nöchling, parish church St. Jakob d. Ä., With floor plan, cemetery, rectory. Pp. 799-780.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 13 ′ 24.9 ″ N , 14 ° 59 ′ 1.6 ″ E