Parish Church of St. Corona am Schöpfl
The Roman Catholic parish and pilgrimage church St. Corona am Schöpfl stands on the slope of a hill above the Vienna Woods town of St. Corona am Schöpfl in the municipality of Altenmarkt an der Triesting in the Baden district in Lower Austria . It is consecrated to St. Corona and belongs to the Deanery Pottenstein in the Vicariate Unter dem Wienerwald of the Archdiocese of Vienna . The church is a listed building .
history
In 1444 a chapel was first mentioned in a document, which was left to decay from the 15th century. Today's church was built in 1720 and made a parish in 1724 . A restoration took place between 1953 and 1960.
architecture
- Church exterior
The church is a small baroque building with a retracted choir flanked by low extensions. The church tower presented in the west stands at the highest point of the church hill. The nave is one in the east hipped covered roof. The high windows are segmented arched. The two-storey church tower has arched sound windows and an onion dome, which is covered with tinplate. The pent roof extensions attached to the tower are slightly wider than the nave. The choir with arched windows ends in a 3/8 end. Small, low, hook-shaped extensions adjoin the choir corners, which also enclose small parts of the nave. The northern extension is a small chamber with the staircase to the pulpit, the southern one is used as a sacristy . On the south side is a round arch frieze. The romanizing window frames on the south side come from a restoration from the 19th century. The church is clapboard on the west side .
- Church interior
The nave is a hall building with a flat ceiling. The balcony-like west gallery from 1960 has a slightly bulged parapet with coffered fields. The first floor of the tower has a flat ceiling. A round arched triumphal arch separates the nave from the choir, which has been raised by three steps. The choir room also has a flat ceiling. In the church windows in the choir from 1909, St. Corona and St. Franz Paul are depicted.
Furnishing
The high altar consists of several inconsistent elements and was redesigned in 1864 and 1865. The free-standing altar table with a tabernacle is from the beginning of the 19th century. The tabernacle is flanked by two angel figures from the end of the 18th century. Above it is an image of Mary in a halo.
The two side altars are simple frame retables from the first half and the middle of the 19th century. The left altarpiece shows St. Corona, the right one St. Vincent . Both were painted by the painter Leopold Till in 1865 . The family altar is on the north wall of the nave . It consists of a baroque column retable in a cartouche . The altar, built in 1725, was restored in 1911 and 1968. The altarpiece shows the Holy Family and God the Father and is flanked by statues of St. Barbara and St. Catherine . In the altarpiece is Saint John the Evangelist .
The polygonal hanging pulpit dates from the first half of the 18th century. The console foot is richly profiled. On the basket is a relief bust of St. Corona. A statue of Christ Salvator stands on the sound cover figure .
In the church there is also a crucifix from the 17th century and a small pièta under a canopy from the beginning of the 19th century, whose original purpose can no longer be determined. In the church there are some oil paintings, such as an oval picture of Saints Vincent and Corona from the beginning of the 19th century, a picture of the Man of Sorrows from the first half of the 18th century and a picture of All Saints with the coat of arms of the Imperial and Royal Councilor Achaz von Klerff in a trapezoidal frame from the end 18th century. The Stations of the Cross are from the first half of the 19th century. The baptismal font with a shell-shaped basin dates from the 18th century. The figure on the lid of the basin shows John the Baptist and dates from the middle of the 19th century.
In the choir there are tombstones by Leopold Loiprecht OSB († 1733), Robertus Magis OSB († 1761), Maria Helena Montahin († 1768) and Ignaz Toma († 1747).
The bell was cast by Johann Achamer in 1707 . The bell with a diameter of 53 cm has a relief of a crucifix and a Madonna and Child in a flame mandorla.
In custody are an altar table with a tabernacle from the beginning of the 18th century, a statue of St. Leopold from the first half of the 18th century as well as two canvas paintings "Coronation of Mary" from the middle of the 19th century and the oval painting "Saint Anna and Maria" the first half of the 19th century.
literature
- Peter Aichinger-Rosenberger, Evelyn Benesch u. a .: Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria: Lower Austria south of the Danube, part 2 (MZ), St. Corona am Schöpfl . Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85028-365-8 , p. 1909 f .
- Dagobert Frey u. a .: Austrian art topography. The monuments of the political district of Baden. Volume 18 . Austrian publishing company Eudard Hölzel & Co., Vienna 1924, p. 263 f .
Coordinates: 48 ° 4 '0.7 " N , 15 ° 55' 21.4" E