Parish church of Oberkreuzstetten
The Roman Catholic parish church of Oberkreuzstetten is located in the center of the village of Oberkreuzstetten in the municipality of Kreuzstetten in the Mistelbach district in Lower Austria . It is dedicated to the Feast of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary and belongs to the Wolkersdorf deanery in the vicariate Unter dem Manhartsberg of the Archdiocese of Vienna . The building is a listed building ( list entry ).
history
The church was built at the end of the 19th century and made a parish church in 1949.
Church building
- Church exterior
The church is a neo-Romanesque hall building with a 3/8 end and a facade tower with a pyramid helmet in the west. The facade is structured by pilaster strips with arched friezes and bi-ore windows. At the end of the 19th century, a sacristy was added to the choir to the east .
- Church interior
The hall has a flat ceiling, the walls have a pilaster structure. The wooden west gallery dates from 1912.
Furnishing
The altarpiece shows “The Visitation of the Virgin Mary” and in a neo-Gothic frame. The picture is flanked by carved figures on the side, Saint Sebastian and Saint Rochus . Both sculptures were created around 1900.
organ
The organ was made by Josef Panhuber in 1931 .
literature
- DEHIO manual. The art monuments of Austria: Lower Austria. North of the Danube. Oberkreuzstetten. Parish Church of the Visitation of Mary. Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.), Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-7031-0585-2 , p. 817.
Individual evidence
- ^ Lower Austria - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. ( Memento of May 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) . Federal Monuments Office , as of June 26, 2015 (PDF).
Coordinates: 48 ° 28 ′ 55.1 ″ N , 16 ° 27 ′ 4.1 ″ E