Niederranna parish church
The parish Niederranna stands above the town Niederranna in the market town of Mühldorf in the district of Krems-Land in Lower Austria . The Roman Catholic parish church consecrated to St. Margaret of Antioch belongs to the Deanery Spitz in the diocese of St. Pölten . The church is a listed building ( list entry ).
history
Probably first mentioned in a document in 865. In 1159 the church went to St. Florian Monastery as a branch of St. Michael and was probably a vicariate in 1228. In 1321 a pastor was named.
In 1852 there was a renovation.
architecture
The church is surrounded by a cemetery and a partly medieval wall and is related to Oberranna Castle in the northeast .
- Church exterior
The nave, which is essentially late medieval, was raised between 1757 and 1762. The nave with round arched windows has a late Gothic surrounding base cornice and buttresses. The presented massive four-storey west tower, which has a Gothic core, has a bell helmet. The late Gothic retracted choir around 1500 with a three-eighth closure has double-stepped buttresses and two-lane pointed arch windows with tracery in three-pass, four-pass and fish bubble shapes and a renewed three-lane tracery window to the south. In the choir corners there are late Gothic additions on both sides.
- Church interior
The originally three-aisled nave reveals itself after a renovation in the third quarter of the 18th century as an almost square room. The western organ gallery from 1852 stands on cast iron supports. The ogival triumphal arch has moved in. The three-bay choir has a ribbed vault on services with heraldic shield-shaped keystones. The two-sided portals in the choir to the extensions have a shoulder arch, the northern portal has been renewed, the southern portal to the sacristy has an iron plate door. The two-bay sacristy has a late Gothic ribbed vault. The northern two-bay chapel extension from the end of the 14th century has a ribbed vault on chalice consoles and relief keystones Christ and rosette, the chapel is open to the nave with a pointed arch arcade.
Remnants of wall paintings in the polygon of the choir from the beginning of the 16th century show the Adoration of the Kings and two coats of arms.
Furnishing
The high altar from 1784 is a double column retable with a cartouche-shaped extension and sacrificial passage portals with acanthus leaf decoration and putti and in the extension with a glory of rays. The altarpiece of St. Margaretha painted Franz Xaver Gürtler in 1775.
There are canvas paintings by Martin Johann Schmidt , Baptism of Christ 1793, Return of the Prodigal Son 1793.
The organ was built by Andreas Stöger in 1852. There is a bell from the 14th century. Hans Lang names a bell in 1590.
Tombstones
Outside
- 19th century inscription plates; Georg Chuzenberg with a chronogram from the 16th century.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria north of the Danube 1990 . Niederranna, Mühldorf parish, parish church St. Margaretha with a floor plan. Pp. 793-794.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 22 ′ 39 " N , 15 ° 20 ′ 58.4" E