Parish Church of St. Martin in the Waldviertel
The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Martin in the Waldviertel is in the village of St. Martin in the market town of St. Martin in Lower Austria . The parish church of St. Martin belongs to the deanery of Gmünd in the diocese of St. Pölten . The church is a listed building ( list entry ).
history
A vicariate was mentioned in a document in 1340 . The single-nave , originally Romanesque , east tower church was changed to Baroque style in the second quarter of the 18th century and expanded to the west. In 1889 the church was renovated. A restoration took place in 1948.
architecture
The church stands north of the main square on the thoroughfare and is surrounded by a cemetery. The square choir tower - Romanesque in the core - has walled-in and an unwalled, coupled round-arched window to the east and a single -lane Gothic tracery window on the east side and a baroque flat-arched window and an onion helmet from 1858 on the south side. The north-facing sacristy is essentially Romanesque. The simple nave has baroque arched windows. The baroque facade with a tail gable has a figure niche with baroque portal porches under curved gables in the shape of the facade.
The four-bay nave is spanned by a baroque, pressed stab cap barrel over double straps on battlements and coupled pilasters . The organ upstairs is swinging. The triumphal arch is rounded and drawn in. The square choir on the tower ground floor has a groin vault .
Furnishing
The late baroque high altar with a marbled wooden structure with twisted columns from the middle of the 18th century and a free-standing altar table with tabernacle shows the altarpiece coat donation of St. Martin the painter Mich. Hertz (1753) and carries the carved figure Christ with the coat donation and the side figures Johannes Nepomuk and Franz Xaver.
The organ was built by Franz Jüstel in 1840. There is a bell from 1541.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria north of the Danube 1990 . St. Martin, parish church of St. Martin, p. 1019.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 39 ′ 51.8 " N , 14 ° 50 ′ 20.4" E