Neustadtl parish church on the Danube
The parish church Neustadtl an der Donau is located in the center of Neustadtl-Markt in the market town of Neustadtl an der Donau in the district of Amstetten in Lower Austria . The Roman Catholic parish church , consecrated to St. James the Elder , belongs to the Amstetten deanery of the diocese of St. Pölten . The church is a listed building ( list entry ).
history
In documents from 1147/1461 a clearing parish in the parish of the Sabenik monastery ( Waldhausen monastery ) was named. In a document, a pastor was named in 1215. Independent parish with 1792.
architecture
The broad, late Gothic hall church under a saddle roof has a retracted choir and a north tower as well as various additions.
The exterior of the church with a simple nave has two- to three-lane tracery windows with keel arches from the beginning of the 16th century with wide walls with intersecting round bars with a baroque vestibule for a late Gothic shoulder-arched south portal in a rectangular frame, in the north of the nave there is a staircase to the gallery In 1955, a gabled vestibule with a five-part slotted window was built in front of the western front. The choir closes with a polygon with buttresses and two-lane tracery windows around 1400. In the northern corner of the choir there is the compact medieval tower with baroque clock gables and a neo-baroque hood from 1903. In the southern corner of the choir there is a late Gothic sacristy with an extension from 1955.
The interior of the church shows a three-aisled, three-bay, almost square four-pillar hall from the beginning of the 16th century under a room-unifying loop-rib vault on slender octagonal pillars or wall templates with services. The north wall of the nave shows support brackets from the former Gothic side wall gallery. The four-axis late Gothic west gallery is vaulted with net ribs and cross-linked loop ribs, the gallery parapet with a protruding middle section shows late Gothic tracery which was renewed in 1956. The ogival triumphal arch is deeply fluted. The one-bay choir closes with a five-eighth closure around 1400, it has ribbed vaults with disc keystones on services and combatant capitals. The former late Gothic sacristy attached to the south of the choir was adapted in 1956 with openings to the choir as a side choir and opened to the right aisle. The new sacristy was presented there.
The glass paintings are ornamental disks from the end of the 19th century, two polygonal wall windows in the choir show figural representations from 1959.
Furnishing
The high altar includes a sandstone group of sculptures by Josef Ortner in 1956 and a wooden crucifix by Klothilde Rauch. The side altars bear a relief-like baroque carving group of Mary and Child in a cloud glory from the middle of the 18th century on the left and the neo-Gothic statue of the Heart of Jesus from the original furnishings from 1901/1902 on the right. Josef Kröll created the pulpit in 1956.
In the nave there are statues Florian and Leopold from the first half of the 18th century, Christ on the scourge column from the middle of the 18th century, and five neo-Gothic console statues.
The anonymous late baroque organ was rebuilt several times. Hans Meixner names a bell in 1580.
literature
- Neustadtl an der Donau, Neustadtl-Markt, Parish Church St. James d. Ä., With floor plan, rectory. In: The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria south of the Danube 2003 . Pp. 1563-1564.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 36.6 ″ N , 14 ° 54 ′ 12.6 ″ E