Parish Church Niederschleinz
The parish church "zum Heiligen Leopold " is an east- facing Roman Catholic church with a west tower at the northeastern end of the village of Niederschleinz , a cadastral community of the market town of Sitzendorf an der Schmida in Lower Austria .
She belongs to the dean's office Sitzendorf in the vicariate Unter dem Manhartsberg and is under monument protection according to the ordinance of the Federal Monuments Office .
Parish and building history
A late medieval building is mentioned around the year 1533. In 1564 Niederschleinz is mentioned in a document as belonging to the parish of Straning . In the second quarter of the 18th century, the church was baroque . Niederleinz has been an independent parish since 1892.
Building description
Outside
The small late Gothic building, modified in the Baroque style, with a tower facing the west, has a gable roof with a circumferential grooved eaves cornice and a recessed polygonal closed choir . The facade of the nave is structured by stepped gothic buttresses with curved waterfalls . One pillar on the south facade is marked “1533” , the other has a small late Gothic relief depicting two crossed winemaker's knives .
The formerly high Gothic pointed arch windows with grooved reveals were rounded off in the course of the Baroque era. Between the two south-facing buttresses is a rectangular portal with a barbed door frame from the 16th century. A large covered crucifix is placed above this portal .
The presented west tower from around 1730 with corner pilasters is divided into three zones and has arched windows on the acoustic floor. An onion helmet rises above a protruding grooved eaves cornice, which is crowned by a tower ball with a cross.
To the south of the choir is a two-storey baroque sacristy extension with corner pilasters from the 18th century, which may have recently been extended to the east. A second, lower, simple extension with a pent roof is north of the choir.
Inside
The nave three-bay nave and the two-bay choir drawn with five-eighth circuit are the core late Gothic and Baroque with cross vaults on transverse arches equipped from the period around the year 1740th
On the west wall there are remains of a late Gothic door vestments . The three-axis half-bay gallery on the west side rests on Tuscan columns from around 1800.
The transition from the nave to the choir is formed by a slightly drawn-in, chamfered, pointed, late-Gothic triumphal arch . This - as well as the vaults and the window frames - is provided with rich bandwork from around 1740.
The baroque sacristy room attached to the south of the choir has a groin vault and is decorated with simple stucco.
Furnishing
The early baroque high altar is labeled “1640” (?), “1727” and “1894” . The reredos bears an altar sheet between twisted columns, which is marked “A. Mühl " is designated. Above that is a similar extract from the altar with the Christ monogram " IHS " in the blown triangular gable. Below is a group of figures " Pietà " flanked by two figures of saints.
The polygonal basket of the pulpit from the end of the 18th century with a relief of Maria Immaculata rises on a baluster base .
The furnishings include two baroque console figures of Saints Peter and Paul from the 17th century, a grooved holy water font and the fourteen pictures of the Stations of the Cross from the end of the 19th century.
organ
The parapet organ from around 1830 comes from the " Znojmo School", possibly from Ignaz Reinold.
Bells
One of the bells from 1801 was made by Johann Georg Fielgrader and Johann Caspar Hofbauer from Vienna.
literature
- Dehio Lower Austria north of the Danube 1990 , Niederschleinz, parish church hl. Leopold, page 795 f.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Lower Austria - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. ( Memento of September 21, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF), ( CSV ( Memento of September 21, 2017 in the Internet Archive )). Federal Monuments Office , as of June 9, 2017.
- ↑ a b c d "Dehio"
Coordinates: 48 ° 35 ′ 41.2 " N , 15 ° 53 ′ 28.9" E