Siebenlinden parish church
The Roman Catholic parish church Siebenlinden is located in Siebenlinden in the market town of Schweiggers in Lower Austria . The parish church of St. Jakobus the Elder is a patronage church of the Zwettl Abbey and belongs to the Deanery of Gmünd in the diocese of St. Pölten . The church is a listed building .
history
Originally there was a castle chapel St. Sebastian on the castle hill, which was removed after 1782. A village chapel and branch church , also with the patronage of St. Sebastian built. The core Romanesque and now by rebuilding in the 15th century Gothic church was in 1662 in Baroque style and in 1784 a parish church. The nave was changed in 1784. In 1911 the church was renovated. The quarry stone wall north of the church is from the second half of the 19th century.
architecture
The church stands in the northwest of Siebenlinden on the hillside of the former castle cone. At the nave and choir with a 3/8 end there are Gothic buttresses with baroque cornices . The church has a surrounding cornice and high baroque arched windows. The nave south wall has a garb of a Roman arch window from the 13th century with Rötelquadrierung and a Gothic pointed arch windows with trefoil arches and a Gothic arch portal shoulder in a Baroque porch. The simple west facade with a turret has a reinforced shoulder arch portal in a vaulted porch with a grooved round arch portal from the 15th century. A baroque barrel-vaulted sacristy is built on the north side of the choir .
The three-bay nave was redesigned in Baroque style and vaulted in 1662 with a needle cap barrel. The Gothic organ loft with vaulted ribs and three pointed arcades on eight-sided pillars is from the 15th century. The one-bay square choir with a 3/8 end has a groin vault with stucco moldings and a stucco keystone around 1660 and round medallions and quatrefoil in stucco frames around 1660. The Gothic shoulder arch portal to the sacristy and the sacraments niche in a profiled rectangular frame are from the 15th century. A baroque stuccoed arched window shows the stained glass Heart of Jesus from 1902. The ceiling painting from the second half of the 18th century, renovated in 1875 and 1911, shows depictions from the Old Testament David, Jeremiah mourning the destruction of Jerusalem, psalms with thirsty birds and deer, and the apocalypse with the fall of the angel and the Lamb of God.
exhibition
Josef Andergassen (1897) created the neo-Gothic high altar as a shrine with cracks and bears the central figure of St. James the Elder and side reliefs St. Anthony of Padua and St. Leonhard. There is the baroque figure of St. Rochus from the former plague altar of the Zwettl collegiate church, consecrated in 1733. The figure of St. Sebastian from the first half of the 18th century comes from the demolished Sebastian Chapel. The figures of Saints Florian, Leonhard, Leopold and Aloysius are from the 19th century. The font is baroque.
The organ was built by Franz Jüstel (1868). There are bells from 1784 and 1874.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria north of the Danube 1990 . Siebenlinden, parish church St. James the Elder, p. 1087.
Coordinates: 48 ° 40 ′ 34.6 " N , 15 ° 0 ′ 15.1" E