Parish Church of Perwang
The Roman Catholic parish church of Perwang is located in the municipality of Perwang am Grabensee in the Braunau am Inn district in Upper Austria . The church , consecrated to St. John the Baptist , belongs to the Mattighofen Dean's Office in the Diocese of Linz . The church building and the cemetery are under monument protection .
history
A Gothic church was donated by the Noppers before 1473. The choir was built around 1470 and the nave around 1510. The nave was extended by a fourth yoke from 1668 to 1679 and the tower was raised with an octagonal tower. The sacristy was added in 1679. In 1959 the interior of the church was restored.
architecture
The drawn-in and low two-bay, ribbed, vaulted choir has a three-eighth closure. The single-nave four-bay nave has a ribbed vault with noses. The west tower with an octagonal tower has a pointed helmet.
Furnishing
The high altar and the side altars from 1846 show good paintings by Josef Rattensperger . The classicist pulpit is from the first half of the 19th century. The left side altar bears a Gothic statue of St. Leonhard from the end of the 15th century.
literature
- Perwang, parish church of St. Johannes d. T. S. 231. In: The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Upper Austria. By Erwin Hainisch , reworked by Kurt Woisetschläger , prefaces to the 3rd edition (1958) and 4th edition (1960) by Walter Frodl , sixth edition, Verlag Anton Schroll & Co., Vienna 1977.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 0 '28.1 " N , 13 ° 5' 2.4" E