Parish church Raach am Hochgebirge
The parish church Raach am Hochgebirge stands in the middle of the village in the municipality of Raach am Hochgebirge in the Neunkirchen district in Lower Austria . The Roman Catholic parish church , consecrated to the patronage of Aegidius , belongs to the Deanery Gloggnitz in the Vicariate Unter dem Wienerwald of the Archdiocese of Vienna . The church and the churchyard wall are under monument protection ( list entry ).
history
The church was a branch church of Neunkirchen and became a vicariate in the 14th century and a parish church after 1570.
The two-aisled Gothic church with two choirs has an exposed tower in the northwest. The churchyard was a cemetery until 1829. In the second half of the 19th century, the church was very heavily neo-Gothic and partially rebuilt.
architecture
The church stands in a partly walled and partly converted churchyard.
The church exterior with two choirs is under a hipped roof. The windowless west wall of the south nave has a barbed late Gothic pointed arch portal; this former south portal was moved to the south corner of the western front in 1880 and in the longitudinal axis of the south nave in 1960. On the north side in front of the western front of the north aisle stands the tower from 1766, two-zone on the outside but four-storey on the inside. The tower has a neo-Gothic pointed arch portal in the west, formally based on the late Gothic west portal.
The south choir is slightly drawn in and has low buttresses up to the window sill. The north choir from 1512 on a pedestal has two-lane neo-Gothic tracery windows, the middle one is three-lane from 1877 with a flat-arched empty wall niche underneath.
The interior of the church shows the two nave aisles, which are connected by two pointed arcades or partition arches on octagonal pillars. Both ships have flat ceilings with large grooves on all sides and wooden ribs on consoles with network configurations from 1880.
In the north choir there are early Renaissance tendril paintings from 1512, which were uncovered in 1960. In the south choir there is a historicist decorative painting around 1880. The glass painting around 1880 comes from Bruges and shows in the north choir Josef and Nikolaus, Aegidius, the coats of arms Liechtenstein and Kinsky , Augustinus and Franziskus, in the south choir there are three windows each with five scenes from the secrets of the rosary .
Furnishing
The neo-Gothic high altar around 1880 is a small carved retable with a large tabernacle with side niche figures Francis, Theresia, Ignatius von Loyola and John the Baptist, the neo-Gothic altar table is structured with columns.
The organ was built by Rudolf Novak (1962). Christoph Packendorff names one bell 1761. Two bells were cast in 1956.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria south of the Danube 2003 . Raach am Hochgebirge, parish church St. Aegyd, with floor plan, rectory. Pp. 1785-1787.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 38 ′ 35.7 " N , 15 ° 55 ′ 50.4" E