Strasshof parish church on the north railway

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Catholic parish church hl. Anthony of Padua in Strasshof on the Northern Railway

The Roman Catholic parish church Strasshof an der Nordbahn is in the center of Strasshof in the district of Gänserndorf in Lower Austria . It is consecrated to St. Anthony and belongs to the Deanery Gänserndorf in the Vicariate Unter dem Manhartsberg of the Archdiocese of Vienna . The building is a listed building .

history

The church was built by August Kirstein between 1923 and 1925 and made a parish church in 1939. In 1988 the chancel of the church was redesigned. The interior was renovated in 2018.

Church building

Church exterior

The church is a low, simple building with a high, campanile-like steeple in the north of the church. The bell floor was deliberately accentuated. There are columns between the coupled arched windows.

Church interior

The nave has a flat wooden ceiling. The choir is slightly narrower than the nave.

Furnishing

The equipment comes from the construction period. The high altar is kept simple. The tabernacle is flanked by adoring angels. Above it is a stained glass window with an image of Saint Anthony from 1926.

literature

  • DEHIO manual. The art monuments of Austria: Lower Austria. North of the Danube. Strasshof on the northern line. Parish church hl. Anthony of Padua. Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.), Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-7031-0585-2 , p. 1151.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lower Austria - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. ( Memento of May 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) . Federal Monuments Office , as of June 26, 2015 (PDF).

Coordinates: 48 ° 18 ′ 55.7 "  N , 16 ° 38 ′ 42.1"  E