Ottenschlag parish church
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The Ottenschlag parish church stands at the south-east end of the market square in the market town of Ottenschlag in the Zwettl district in Lower Austria . The Roman Catholic parish church consecrated to St. James the Elder belongs to the Deanery Spitz in the diocese of St. Pölten . The church is a listed building ( list entry ).
history
Ottenschlag was documented as part of the Kottes parish in 1096 and named as an independent parish in 1380. The parish church of St. Hippolytus stood outside the village on Poltenberg, probably on the site of today's cemetery chapel St. Hippolyt today as a simple building from 1870. Around 1774 the seat of the parish church was moved to the market church.
The market church, which is essentially late Gothic, was mentioned in a document in 1490. After a fire in 1696, the church was rebuilt and expanded. In 1908 the church was renovated.
architecture
- Church exterior
The broad rectangular nave was extended to the west in 1696 and shows itself under a crooked roof with dormer windows with banded buttresses and pointed arch windows and a porch from 1908. The polygonal choir is lower. A two-storey sacristy is added to the northeast. The late Gothic north tower has a bell storey with round arched windows and blind arches from 1696 and has a historic onion helmet. A baroque figure of St. Johannes Nepomuk on a corner console which was donated in 1907.
- Church interior
The nave shows itself as a hall under a flat ceiling with a painted neo-baroque pilaster structure. The two-arched music gallery is from 1696. The squat triumphal arch is pointed. The one-bay choir with a three-eighth end is vaulted with groin vaults and on the north side has a late Gothic shoulder arch portal to the groin vaulted tower ground floor. In the oratory above the sacristy there is a late renaissance mirror vault with twisting cord decoration on consoles from the end of the 16th century.
The stained glass names 1937.
Furnishing
The uniform baroque interior includes three baroque altars from the beginning of the 18th century, which were probably passed over and added around 1900. The high altar with a column structure and acanthus on the side shows the altar leaf St. James the Elder and in the essay the group of figures St. Trinity and angels around 1700. The left side altar bears a late Gothic Madonna around 1510.
Hartwig Späth built the organ in 1987.
Tombstones
- Grave slab with a pole cross from the beginning of the 14th century.
- Two grave slabs with 1544.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria north of the Danube 1990 . Ottenschlag, parish of Ottenschlag, parish church hl. Jakob d. Ä. P. 848.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 25 ′ 24.9 ″ N , 15 ° 13 ′ 15.9 ″ E