Parish church Rabenstein an der Pielach
The parish church Rabenstein an der Pielach stands at the northeastern end of the market square in the market town of Rabenstein an der Pielach in the St. Pölten-Land district in Lower Austria . The Roman Catholic parish church consecrated to St. Lawrence of Rome - incorporated into the Göttweig monastery - belongs to the Lilienfeld dean's office in the diocese of St. Pölten . The church is a listed building ( list entry ).
history
In the 13th century the vicariate was detached from the parish Hofstetten-Grünau . In 1283 a pastor was mentioned in a document. In 1323, Rabenstein and Hofstetten were incorporated into the Göttweig monastery and remained a parish parish until the 15th century. There was a fire in the second half of the 15th century. Around 1900 the tracery windows were renovated. In 1953 the entire church building was bypassed and has since been exposed to stone, in 1967/1969 a restoration was carried out.
A late Gothic church was built over Romanesque and early Gothic predecessor buildings in the late 15th century. To the north of the nave there are additions as a sacristy and cemetery, structurally connected with the rectory built in 1977/1979.
architecture
The nave and the choir stand under an extremely high and narrow hip roof with the same ridge height; the roof is pulled down over the aisles and is slightly bent. The church building shows tracery windows and buttresses. The western front has a late Gothic portal and a baroque round window above it. On the south side there is a late Gothic profiled segment arch portal, the inside of the door bears the year 1626, but the fittings are older. The choir has small polygonal side choirs on both sides. The undivided, late Gothic tower has slotted hatches and three-pass sound windows and carries a wedge roof with an eaves below the ridge height of the nave. The tower has a rectangular portal on the south side with a late Gothic iron-clad door leaf with skylight. A connecting passage goes from the tower under a gable roof to the nave roof truss. In the western corner of the tower there is an entrance bay with slit windows.
Furnishing
The furnishings are neo-Gothic, partly by Ludwig Linzinger (1896/1902). The high altar, based on a design by Benedikt Hager, has a reredos with niche statues of Aloysius, John the Baptist, Bernhard, Thomas Aquinas, and above it a canopy with the heart of Jesus statuette documented in 1891.
The organ in a neo-Gothic case was built by Carl Hesse (1875). A train bell was made around 1470.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria south of the Danube 2003 . Rabenstein an der Pielach, parish church St. Laurentius. Pp. 1788-1789.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 3 ′ 55.5 " N , 15 ° 28 ′ 1.6" E