Parish church Roßbach
The Roman Catholic parish church Roßbach is located in the village of Roßbach in the municipality of Roßbach in the Braunau am Inn district in Upper Austria . On the Saints James the Elder church dedicated part of the deanery Aspach in the Diocese of Linz , its patron saint is on Jakobitag , the July 25 , celebrated. The church and the cemetery are under monument protection .
history
A church was mentioned in a document in 1126. The interior of the Gothic hall church was given a baroque style. A baroque chapel for the dead was added to the south of the tower in the 17th century. The church was restored in 1949.
architecture
The three-aisled, three-bay nave is joined by the two-bay choir with a three-eighth end. The vault ribs were removed and covered with stucco probably by Johann Michael Vierthaler around 1740 . The frescoes were created at the same time. The three-axis Gothic west gallery is arched in a keel-arched mesh rib and shows a baroque parapet. On the choir arch is a Gothic marble relief of angels with a handkerchief from around 1490. The buttresses are stepped on the outside. The west tower with a rib vaulted bell and an eight-sided bell house has a pointed helmet. The Gothic west portal has a door with Gothic fittings. The Gothic south portal is dead. The sacristy portal is Gothic.
Furnishing
The furnishings from 1884 are neo-Gothic. The high altar bears good baroque statues of St. Stephan and St. Lorenz from the beginning of the 18th century.
Outside on the west wall is a Gothic tombstone with an olive relief from around 1505. On the head of the choir is a coat of arms tombstone from 1570.
literature
- Roßbach, parish church hl. Jakob d. Ä. P. 261. In: The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Upper Austria. By Erwin Hainisch , reworked by Kurt Woisetschläger , prefaces to the 3rd edition (1958) and 4th edition (1960) by Walter Frodl , sixth edition, Verlag Anton Schroll & Co., Vienna 1977.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 12 '2.4 " N , 13 ° 15' 5.1" E