Parish church St. Georgen in the Klaus
The parish church of St. Georgen in der Klaus is visible from afar in the village of St. Georgen in der Klaus in the statutory town of Waidhofen an der Ybbs in Lower Austria . The patronage of St. Georg's subordinate Roman Catholic parish church belongs to the dean's office in Waidhofen an der Ybbs in the diocese of St. Pölten . The church is a listed building ( list entry ).
history
A chapel was mentioned in a document in 1186. The church was looked after by the Seitenstetten Abbey until 1776 .
architecture
The late Gothic church building with a nave and a long choir of the same width and height has a mighty porch in the south and an exposed west tower. The church is surrounded by a walled cemetery.
The exterior of the church shows an ogival main portal on the left in the two-axis, two-storey monumental southern porch. The three-storey, late-Gothic west tower with a strongly reduced structure has an Eternit cladding and a neo-Gothic tent roof from 1906. The east window of the choir is walled up with a niche, in the niche is the figure of St. George with the dragon from the middle of the 17th century. In front of it is the war memorial from around 1920 in a small porch.
The interior of the church shows the two-bay nave with a ribbed vault around the middle to the end of the 14th century on services and in the corners on consoles. The two-axis organ loft stands on late Gothic beveled pillars and is vaulted with lancet barrels from the beginning of the 16th century, the loft has a balcony porch with tracery ornamentation from the 19th century. Below the gallery is a vaulted access to the west tower with a staircase turned to the left. The round arched wide, slightly indented triumphal arch has two polygonal pillars. The three-bay late Gothic long choir with a five-eighth closure has a ribbed vault from 1886 on consoles. The three-axis oratory on the right as the upper floor to the choir has a tracery barriers from the 19th century. In the choir is a late Gothic shoulder portal with an iron plate door. The vestibule has a groined vault from the 19th century.
Furnishing
The free-standing, simple natural stone altar from 1967 is dominated by a monumental crucifix by the sculptor Josef Sieberer in 1971 on the niche in the end of the choir. The late Gothic console figure of St. Georg is from the beginning of the 16th century.
The organ was built by Johann Lachmayr around 1890. A bell from the 13th century is one of the oldest in Lower Austria. Hans Lang mentions a bell with the coat of arms from Seitenstetten Abbey in 1633.
literature
- St. Georgen in der Klaus, parish church hl. Georg, with floor plan, rectory. In: The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria south of the Danube 2003 . P. 1925.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 59 ′ 16.7 " N , 14 ° 42 ′ 4" E