Parish church St. Leonhard am Wald
The parish and pilgrimage church of St. Leonhard am Wald is visible from afar in an elevated position on the eastern edge of the church hamlet of St. Leonhard am Walde in the statutory town of Waidhofen an der Ybbs in Lower Austria . The patronage of St. The Roman Catholic parish church subordinate to Leonhard von Limoges belongs to the dean's office in Waidhofen an der Ybbs in the diocese of St. Pölten . The former fortified church and the cemetery are under monument protection ( list entry ).
history
The church was mentioned in a document in 1435 as a branch of the parish church Neuhofen an der Ybbs and consecrated in 1443. In 1778 a vicariate, the church was elevated to a parish church in 1939.
architecture
The late Gothic two-aisled hall church with a slightly retracted choir with a five-eighth closing and a prominent western tower is surrounded by a walled cemetery.
Furnishing
According to the chronogram, the high altar was built in 1740 as an expansive baroque column retable with segmental arch niches and sacrificial passage portals, occupying the apse; it shows the high altar sheet St. Leonhard and the upper picture St. Michael, he carries the statues Korbinian, Hieronymus, Paulus and Johannes and Engel.
The one-manual organ is a baroque work with a three-part late baroque case with a rich side veil. Konrad Nusberger names a bell in 1655.
literature
- St. Leonhard am Wald, statutory town Waidhofen an der Ybbs, parish and pilgrimage church of St. Leonhard, with floor plan, rectory, small monuments. In: The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria south of the Danube 2003 . Pp. 1935-1937.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 59 ′ 41.9 ″ N , 14 ° 52 ′ 28.1 ″ E