Raxendorf parish church
The parish church of Raxendorf is slightly elevated at the southern end of the village in the market town of Raxendorf in the Melk district in Lower Austria . The Roman Catholic parish church consecrated to St. Godehard of Hildesheim belongs to the Deanery Spitz in the diocese of St. Pölten . The church and the cemetery are under monument protection ( list entry ).
history
A branch of the parish church Weiten was mentioned in a document in the beginning of the 13th century . The church was elevated to a parish church in 1734. In 1756/1758 the new baroque building took place. There was a renovation in 1862 and a restoration in 1959.
architecture
The baroque hall church with a gable turret is surrounded by a cemetery with an enclosure wall and was formerly outside the village.
- Church exterior
The nave with corner pilaster strips and high-seated arched windows has a half-hipped roof. The west front has a triangular gable with a gable turret with arched sound windows and a low bell-shaped helmet. The retracted lower choir, probably late Gothic in the core, with a hipped roof and arched windows has buttresses at the end of the triangle. The southern addition to the sacristy has a hipped roof.
- Church interior
The baroque hall has rounded corners and a semicircular apse with lancet barrel vaults on belts on a circumferential, profiled cornice cranked around flat pilasters. The shallow west gallery vaulted with a cross ridge on two pillars has a semicircular protruding central parapet, there a spiral staircase on the left and a former Holy Sepulcher chapel on the right. The sacristy has a barrel vault with re-entrant burrs.
Furnishing
The facility was built around 1760. The high altar has a free-standing altar table with a tabernacle flanked by adoring angels on volutes. The east wall shows the altar leaf of St. Gotthard as the protector of the Raxendorf church shown in the background in a round arch frame with a richly carved crown. Two side altars of the same type show Anna with Maria on the left and the Eye of God in the essay, and Leopold on the right and the heart in the halo in the essay.
Andreas Groll painted the Stations of the Cross in 1869.
The organ was built by Franz Capek in 1907. Johann Christoph Flos names a bell in 1676.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria north of the Danube 1990 . Raxendorf, parish Raxendorf, parish church hl. Gotthard, rectory. Pp. 952-953.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 20 ′ 21.6 ″ N , 15 ° 16 ′ 45.1 ″ E