Parish church Spital near Weitra
The Roman Catholic parish church Spital bei Weitra is located in Spital in the town of Weitra in Lower Austria . The parish church of St. John the Baptist belongs to the deanery Gmünd in the diocese of St. Pölten . The church and the cemetery are under monument protection .
history
A parish was mentioned in a document in 1298.
architecture
The church is surrounded by a cemetery. A retracted Romanesque east tower connects to the Romanesque , Gothic modified nave . In the west there is a baroque west bay of the nave with an unadorned gable facade. A Gothic choir in the width of the nave adjoins the tower to the east . To the north of the tower is a baroque sacristy extension .
The Romanesque tower has renewed coupled sound windows . The Romanesque core of the nave shows itself to the north with visible, regularly layered quarry stone masonry with two walled up arched windows. The Gothic single-lane tracery windows on the nave are partly rounded in Baroque style.
From the Romanesque building, the cross - ridge -vaulted tower yoke between two drawn-in arches, pointed arched west to the nave, and rounded and chamfered east to the choir , is preserved. The portal to the sacristy is baroque with a wooden door with Maltese crosses . The four-bay nave was rebuilt in the 15th century and has a ribbed vault in the central bays on drawn-in five-sided wall struts. The western and eastern yoke have flat vaults due to baroque extensions and changes. In the west yoke is a baroque organ gallery. The Gothic one - bay choir with a five- eighth ending around 1400/1. Half of the 15th century, has a ribbed vault with keystones on circular services. The sacrament niche has a pointed arch frame with a three-pass filling . The former piscine has a late baroque frame.
The mural around 1360 was uncovered in 1983. The tower yoke is fully painted, on the north wall Enthroned Mary between Helena and Dorothea, on the side Mount of Olives , on the east wall crucifixion with Mary and John between John the Baptist and Peter, on the south wall a fragment of Mary Magdalene and other saints. On the triumphal arch reveal unbelievers Thomas and Anna themselves , on the vault Pantocrator on the throne chair and medallions with evangelist symbols in front of a starry sky, the shield arches are accompanied by crabs and characterized by perspective and often nested architectural housings. St. Wolfgang is on the choir arch reveal. Stylistically, a fragment of a Man of Sorrows belongs to the year 1546.
Furnishing
The tabernacle altar is baroque. A Baroque figure group Gnadenstuhl is from the 18th century. There are baroque images of St. Peter and St. Simon Stock receives the scapular from Maria. The granite font is in the style of the end of 16./1. Half of the 17th century. There is a Romanesque tombstone with a hill cross.
The organ was built by Franz Strommer (1902). There is a 14th century bell.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria north of the Danube 1990 . Hospital, parish church St. Johannes d. T., pp. 1103-1104.
Coordinates: 48 ° 40 ′ 28.6 ″ N , 14 ° 54 ′ 59.3 ″ E