Parish church of St. Valentin-Landschach
The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Valentin-Landschach is located in the village of St. Valentin-Landschach in the Grafenbach-St. Valentin in the Neunkirchen district in Lower Austria . The St. The parish church consecrated to Valentin - incorporated into Heiligenkreuz Abbey - belongs to the Deanery Gloggnitz in the Archdiocese of Vienna .
history
In 1204 a chapel or a charnel house is mentioned in a document . St. Valentin was originally a branch of St. Lorenzen am Steinfeld . A new church was built around 1300. 1617 St. Lorenzen from was Rein the Stift Neukloster in Wiener Neustadt passed. In 1659 the Gothic church was redesigned in Baroque style . In 1684 there was a fire as a result of which the church was rebuilt and a tower was built by 1726. In 1746–75 the Liebfrauenkapelle was built. In 1880 the new monastery was merged with the Heiligenkreuz Abbey , as a result of which the St. Valentin-Landschach parish was incorporated into the Heiligenkreuz Abbey. From 1946 to 2004 pastoral care was given to the Oblates of St. Franz von Sales handed over. In 1989/90 the north wall of the nave was torn open, the baroque Marienkapelle was removed and the church was considerably enlarged with an extension based on plans by Reinhard Gieselmann (1925-2013).
architecture
The main gothic nave from the first half of the 14th century and the retracted, polygonal closed gothic choir with a 3/8 end and groin vault . The nave and the Barbara chapel, which was added to the south around 1600, share a saddle roof. In the spandrels of the choir and Barbara chapel there is a former Romanesque charnel house from the beginning of the 13th century. This is two-story with a pyramid roof and was originally free-standing. The protruding three-storey west tower from 1726 has an onion helmet . Due to the northern extension under a glazed gable roof, the church has not been oriented towards the east but towards the north since 1990. The extension also includes two aisles and a sacristy . In the side wall of the extension there are stained glass of St. Barbara and a bishop by Florian Jankowitsch.
Furnishing
The high altar has been in the extension since 1990 and dates from the first half of the 18th century. The wall retable consists of a picture of St. Valentin by Hermann Nigg (dated 1919) and side baroque console figures of Saints Nepomuk and Florian. Above the baroque tabernacle there is a miraculous image , a bust of St. Mary with child. The two side altars in the Barbara chapel also date from the first half of the 18th century. The right wall retable consists of statues of Saints Sebastian and Rochus and a grace figure of Our Lady Enthroned, probably from the middle of the 15th century. The left altar is a Barbara altar with candelabra-wearing putti and a picture of St. Barbara. There are also 14 pictures of the Stations of the Cross from the end of the 19th century with neo-baroque frames and baroque console figures of Saints Joachim and Anna in the church. On the south side of the tower there is a baroque altar for the poor and souls and a group of figures Crucifixion over purgatory from the beginning of the 18th century.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria south of the Danube 2003 . St. Valentin-Landschach, parish church St. Valentin, pp. 2061f.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 41 '8.16 " N , 16 ° 0' 58.07" E