Parish Church of Stoitzendorf
The parish church "zum Heiligen Leopold " is an east-facing Roman Catholic church with a west tower in the cadastral parish of Stoitzendorf in the municipality of Eggenburg in Lower Austria .
She belongs to the dean's office Sitzendorf in the vicariate Unter dem Manhartsberg and is under monument protection according to the ordinance of the Federal Monuments Office ( list entry ).
Parish and building history
The previous building of the parish church was consecrated in 1467 as the Jakobskapelle . In the 16th century the chapel was incorporated into Klosterneuburg Abbey and received the patronage of St. Leopold. After being destroyed, the church was renewed in 1620 and received its west tower in 1740. After a structural change in 1783, Stoitzendorf was raised to a parish the following year . In the second half of the 19th century the church building was redesigned.
Building description
Outside
The core Gothic nave with gabled roof and a surrounding Kaff- and Traufgesims is provided in the north and south by two and in the west with a buttress. These piers with water hammer are placed over a corner and have curved pointed gables and pent roofs . The pointed arch windows of the nave are in deep reveals . To the south, a late Gothic barbed rectangular portal from the end of the 15th century forms an entrance to the church.
In the west, the nave is closed off by a curved gable wall with cleaning screws from the end of the 18th century. In front of this gable wall is the tower with a square floor plan, which is divided into two storeys by cornices. A rectangular portal on the west side of the tower forms the second access to the church. Above it is a flat gable supported by volutes , followed by a rectangular window and an oculus . The sound floor has arched windows. The tower has a pyramid helmet with integrated clock gables, which is crowned by a tower ball and a cross. Access to the tower is made through an octagonal stair tower with a pyramid roof attached to the north side.
The low, late Gothic recessed choir dates from the 15th century. Four buttresses in the east and one in the south are equipped with water hammer, desk slopes and pent roofs. There is a pointed arch window on the south and north side of the choir. On the north side is a low sacristy extension from the 15th century.
Inside
The interior and the slightly lower choir with a five-eighth closure are flat covered. The ceiling is richly painted. The 19th century gallery in the west rests on two Tuscan columns .
Furnishing
On the neo-Gothic high altar there are polychrome baroque figures of Saints Peter and Paul . Other polychrome wooden figures from around 1800 in the nave represent Saints Sebastian , Rochus , Johannes Nepomuk and Leonhard as well as an Immaculate . The former altarpiece of Saint Augustine from 1730 hangs on the south wall of the nave . The baptismal font comes from the second half of the 18th century.
In the sacristy with windows from the beginning of the 20th century there is a polychrome figure of the risen Christ from the end of the 18th century.
organ
The organ was started by Franz Capek and completed by Ignaz Reinold .
literature
- Dehio Lower Austria north of the Danube 1990 , Stoitzendorf, parish church hl. Leopold, page 1141.
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annotation
- ↑ The year 1865 is given in the "Dehio" as the date when the organ was built . Franz Capek was only 8 years old at the time.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ignaz Reinold in “Significant South Moravians” accessed on August 15, 2013
Coordinates: 48 ° 38 '52.5 " N , 15 ° 51' 57.7" E