Parish church of St. Georgen near Obernberg am Inn

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Catholic parish church hl. Georg in St. Georgen near Obernberg am Inn

The parish church of St. Georgen bei Obernberg am Inn is located in the municipality of St. Georgen bei Obernberg am Inn in Upper Austria . The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Georg belongs to the Altheim dean's office in the Linz diocese . The church and the cemetery are under monument protection .

history

A church was mentioned in a document in 1168.

architecture

The Gothic ashlar building is made of tuff stone . To the nave four-bay nave externally provided with stepped buttresses - - a semi-retracted closes chorus with a three-eighths-circuit. The ribs were removed from the Gothic vaults in the nave and choir. The three-axis west gallery has a ribbed vault . The tower in the southern choir corner has an eight-sided pointed helmet. The Gothic south portal has a vestibule with a ribbed vault. The sacristy has a rib vault.

The cemetery wall has a wedge cover made of tuff stone.

Furnishing

The high altar from 1705 has a later modified rococo tabernacle with a crucifixion group. The statues are believed to have been made by the Schwanthaler family of sculptors . The side altars were made around 1680. The left side altar bears a figure of Mary with child from the 17th century. In the nave is a group of figures of the Coronation of Mary from the second quarter of the 18th century.

There is a bell from 1681.

literature

  • St. Georgen near Obernberg, parish church. S. 276. 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.

Web links

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Coordinates: 48 ° 17 ′ 34.5 "  N , 13 ° 19 ′ 59.4"  E