Parish church Ollersdorf
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The Roman Catholic parish church of Ollersdorf is located in the village of Ollersdorf in the market town of Angern an der March in the Gänserndorf district in Lower Austria . The church consecrated to St. Leonhard belongs to the deanery Gänserndorf in the vicariate Unter dem Manhartsberg of the Archdiocese of Vienna . The church is a listed building .
history
A church is documented from 1429 and was rebuilt in 1783. Until 1782 the church was incorporated into the Mauerbach Charterhouse . The longitudinal central building was built from 1742 to 1746.
Exterior
The high and richly structured west tower facade has giant pilasters with an accentuated center and figure niches on the sides . Above the arched portal with crowning foliage decoration is a segmented arched window , above it a coat of arms of the Carthusian monastery of Mauerbach . The heavy, all-round cornice with narrow segmental arches leads over to the tower with plaster band structure , round arched sound windows and a baroque onion helmet . The baroque iron entrance door is richly decorated. The slightly protruding nave has central rectangular portals and segmented arched windows between pilaster strips. The recessed, round choir with an oval final window is flanked by symmetrical , single-storey extensions .
Interior
The high longitudinal central room has a wide-span square vault between belts on a rich pilaster structure with heavy, surrounding entablature . Two narrower yokes with rectangular square vaults adjoin the long sides : in the west the gallery yoke with a slightly protruding organ gallery with plastered sections and in the east the choir yoke with square vaults between belt arches and with a flat arched end. In the north lies the two-bay sacristy with a rectangular square vault between belt arches and in the south a corresponding confessional room . The vestibule , which is also the basement of the tower, also has a square vault.
Facility
According to a document, the uniformly baroque furnishings were made in 1750–1756 under Abbot Ambrosius von Mauerbach. The mighty, richly structured high altar with a central figural niche crowned by shells has a figure of St. Leonhard and figures of those seeking help. The side figures represent the Hll. Florian, Ambrose, Anthelmus and Donatus. In the excerpt is a spacious, the rear window miteinbeziehende Trinity group with rich halo seen. Above a simple tabernacle with adoring angels is an exposure niche with a canopy . Two large candlesticks stand in front of the altar.
The two side altars have central figure niches. On the left, next to a group of figures of the Holy Family, the side figures of St. To see Joachim and Anna; on the right a group of figures of St. Notburga with two people seeking help and side figures of St. Bruno and a Carthusian abbot .
The richly decorated pulpit has reliefs of the four evangelists on the basket and a figure of Salvator and angels with trumpets and tablets on the sound cover and a relief of Christ as the sower on the door of the pulpit .
Further furnishings include a figure of Immaculate surrounded by a canopy held by putti , baroque figures of the four evangelists, and other figures of St. Josef and Johannes Nepomuk, a Pietà picture, pictures of the Way of the Cross from the beginning of the 19th century, a prayer stool with the coat of arms of the Mauerbach Charterhouse and a baptismal font with a group of figures Baptism of Christ .
The organ was built in 1976 by Franz Donabaum.
literature
- DEHIO Lower Austria north of the Danube . Berger, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-85028-395-3 , pp. 844f.
Web links
- Entry on parish church Ollersdorf in the Austria-Forum (chapter sacred buildings)
Coordinates: 48 ° 23 ′ 39.6 " N , 16 ° 47 ′ 45.3" E