Parish church Pichl near Wels
The Roman Catholic parish church Pichl bei Wels is located in the market town of Pichl bei Wels in the Wels-Land district in Upper Austria . It is consecrated to St. Martin and belongs to the deanery Wels-Land in the diocese of Linz . The building and the cemetery are under monument protection ( list entry ).
history
The church is mentioned for the first time in the 11th century. The church was originally a Gothic building, which was rebuilt between 1734 and 1736 by Johann Michael Prunner . After a fire in 1750, it was renewed by Johann Matthias Krinner . The church was restored in 1900 and 1940.
architecture
- Church exterior
The west tower has an onion helmet .
- Church interior
The single-nave nave has four bays. Above it is a barrel vault with stitch caps . The retracted choir has a flat barrel vault .
Furnishing
The altars and the pulpit with good statues were made between 1750 and 1760. The high altar painting is by Bartolomeo Altomonte from 1767. The side altar paintings from 1751 are also by him. The Stations of the Cross were painted in the second quarter of the 18th century by an artist close to Wolfgang Andreas Heindl .
graveyard
In the cemetery by the church tower, a memorial commemorates the victims of the national socialists' foster home for foreign children in Etzelsdorf Castle .
literature
- DEHIO manual. The art monuments of Austria: Upper Austria. Pichl near Wels. Parish church hl. Martin. Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.), Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1977, 6th edition, p. 237.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Upper Austria - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. ( Memento from June 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) . Federal Monuments Office , as of June 21, 2016 (PDF).
Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 5 " N , 13 ° 53 ′ 56.8" E