Pulkau parish church
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The parish church of Pulkau stands on a hill in the north of the town of Pulkau in the Hollabrunn district in Lower Austria . The Roman Catholic parish church , consecrated to the patronage of Archangel Michael , belongs to the Retz-Pulkautal deanery of the diocese of Vienna . The church is a listed building ( list entry ).
history
In a document in 1135 a parish was named as one of the 13 Babenberg own parishes. The church was incorporated into the Schotten Benedictine Abbey in 1158 .
The choir tower church , which is Romanesque in its core , was expanded into a basilica complex through a Gothic conversion . The Romanesque hall structure dates from the 12th century, an early Gothic expansion took place around 1300 with the south chapel and a choir with a northern chapel , the side aisles were added in the 14th century. After the church was destroyed in 1645, it was rebuilt in a Baroque style in the second half of the 17th century, the nave vaulting was created in 1671, the re-consecration was in 1679. In 1936 a restoration took place.
architecture
The church stands with a charnel house in the southeast on a hill in the north of the city and is surrounded by a spacious cemetery with a former medieval, now renewed cemetery wall.
Furnishing
The high altar with a free-standing altar table with a baroque structure carries a tabernacle adorned with figures of angels, the image of the Virgin Mary in a baroque frame and the crowning figure of St. Michael are from the middle of the 18th century.
The baroque organ was created by Matthäus Jeßwagner in 1762. One bell was named 1633 by Adalbert Arnold, another bell was named by Ignaz Hilzer in 1855 .
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria north of the Danube 1990 . Pulkau, parish church St. Michael, with floor plan, Karner, Pfarrhof, pp. 912–913.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 42 ′ 29.2 " N , 15 ° 51 ′ 40.2" E