Parish church Puch in Lower Austria
The parish church of Puch in Lower Austria is slightly elevated on the rise of a terrain step in the village of Puch in the municipality of Waidhofen an der Thaya in the district of Waidhofen an der Thaya in Lower Austria . The Roman Catholic parish church , consecrated to St. Anne , belongs to the dean's office in Waidhofen an der Thaya in the diocese of St. Pölten . The church is a listed building ( list entry ).
history
A parish was mentioned in a document in 1345. From 1700 to 1707 the church was redesigned in Baroque style by master mason Matthias Fölser.
architecture
The church building, which is essentially Gothic and Baroque with a side tower, is surrounded by the former cemetery wall.
The church with a nave and a retracted rectangular choir shows corner buttresses stepped from the Gothic core and Gothic grooved pointed arch portals to the west and north. The raised rectangular windows are in the style of the 17th century. In the north there is a baroque two-storey extension as a portal porch and oratory. The sacristy is attached to the choir head. The massive medieval tower on the north-west corner has later round-arched sound windows and has a pyramid roof from 1885.
The interior of the nave shows itself as a three-bay nave under a needle cap barrel with stuccoed fields and deep shield arches on high entablature heads and coupled pilasters. On the north side is a rectangular opening to the barrel-vaulted oratory. The barrel vaulted gallery is located in the west yoke. The triumphal arch has moved in. The two-bay rectangular choir has lancet barrel vaults over an arched belt, in the south wall there is a Gothic ogival niche for sessions. The east baroque window is walled up. The rounded arched opening on the north side leads into the barrel-vaulted extension.
A baroque stone cartouche with a coat of arms is called CFGVGYAFM.
Furnishing
Franz Mitterhofer built the high altar as a marbled classical double pilaster retable in 1850, it shows the altar sheet Teaching Mary by August Wörndle in 1887, and bears the late Baroque figures of Peter and Paul around 1770 and the figures of Florian and Donatus from the third quarter of the 18th century. The tabernacle was created in 1850.
The pulpit from the third quarter of the 18th century is marbled and shows the bas-reliefs of the Sermon on the Mount and symbols of the Virgin Mary, the sound cover is rococo .
A Gothic, round holy water stone with heraldic shields is located in the porch of the portal. A baroque round holy water stone has a bulged foot.
The organ was built by Max Zachistal and Franz Capek in 1890.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria north of the Danube 1990 . Puch, community Waidhofen an der Thaya, parish church hl. Anna, p. 910.
Coordinates: 48 ° 50 ′ 45.3 " N , 15 ° 21 ′ 25.3" E