Ruprechtshofen parish church
The parish Ruprechtshofen is slightly raised on a plateau south-east from the main square in the village of Ruprechtshofen in the district of Melk in Lower Austria . The Roman Catholic parish church consecrated to St. Nicholas of Myra belongs to the Melk deanery in the diocese of St. Pölten . The church is a listed building ( list entry ).
history
Originally an own church of the Count von Peilstein , the church became a parish church before 1200. In 1334 the church of the Charterhouse Gaming was incorporated. From 1575 to the beginning of the 17th century the parish was united with St. Leonhard am Forst .
The church was restored outside in 1971 and inside in 1975.
architecture
The church was surrounded by a tabor as a former cemetery or Gaden churchyard.
The core Romanesque hall church and the converted late Gothic staggered church has a retracted choir from the end of the 13th century and a late Gothic tower in the northern corner of the choir.
The broad nave under a distinctive steep, very deeply drawn-down hipped roof that slightly kinks over the side aisles has wide baroque buttresses and baroque renewed arched windows. The undivided western front has a recent arched portal and a large baroque arched window. The southern Gothic pointed arch portal with profiled walls has a small porch. The choir shows itself with stepped buttresses that are strongly tapered in the upper area, has renewed pointed arch windows and two small two-part Gothic tracery windows each in the south and north, whereby the south-facing windows are walled up and can only be seen from the inside, a north-facing window is flat, closed, flat without Round bar only with a circle without noses from the end of the 13th century. The slender, undivided tower has slotted hatches on the north side, it was raised in 1653 and provided with arched sound windows and has a neo-baroque onion dome with a lantern from 1874. In the southern corner of the choir is a two-storey sacristy with stab cap barrels. Next to the south portal, a fragment of a wall painting from the first half of the 15th century probably shows an apostle.
Furnishing
Franz Schmalzl mentions the high altar as a neo-Gothic niche retable in 1903; it bears a statue of St. Nicholas, flanked by smaller console statues Notburga and Isidore, reliefs show the Epiphany and the Last Supper, as well as the statues Peter and Paul, in the excerpt St. Rupert as a Benedictine monk flanked by Sebastian and Johannes Nepomuk.
The organ with Rückpositiv was built by Franz Hötzl in 1831 and renewed in 1999/2000.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria south of the Danube 2003 . Ruprechtshofen, parish church hl. Nikolaus, with floor plan, parish priest. Pp. 1877-1878.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 6.5 ″ N , 15 ° 16 ′ 40.2 ″ E