Parish church Thalheim near Wels
The Roman Catholic parish church Thalheim bei Wels is located in the municipality of Thalheim bei Wels in the district of Wels-Land in Upper Austria . It is consecrated to St. Stephen and belongs to the Deanery Wels-Land in the Diocese of Linz . The building is under monument protection ( list entry ).
history
The church is first mentioned in a document in 1179.
architecture
- Church exterior
The church is a late Gothic three-nave hall church. The west tower has a newer pointed spire from 1873. The Gothic south portal is presented with a vaulted vestibule.
- Church interior
The three-aisled nave is three-bay. The central nave is vaulted with net ribs, similar to the parish church in Steyr . The side aisles are vaulted with star ribs . To the east of the end of the choir, there is the cruciform chapel with a baroque grill from the 1710s.
Furnishing
The marble high altar is neo-Gothic . The side altars are documented from the years 1656 to 1658. The statues for them were created by Johann Seiz from Passau . According to the document, the pulpit was made in 1662. It probably comes from the sculptor of the Kremsmünster Abbey, Sebastian Gründler . The baptismal font is Gothic. In the niche in the hall there is a figure of St. Christopher from the second quarter of the 18th century. There is a relief figure on the tombstone from 1521. The organ with two manuals and 24 sounding stops was built in 1886 by Josef Mauracher from St. Florian .
literature
- DEHIO manual. The art monuments of Austria: Upper Austria. Thalheim near Wels. Parish church hl. Vitus. Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.), Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1977, 6th edition, p. 343.
Web links
- The parish and the parish church. Parish Thalheim near Wels, 2013, accessed on April 4, 2017 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Upper Austria - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. ( Memento from June 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) . Federal Monuments Office , as of June 21, 2016 (PDF).
Coordinates: 48 ° 9 ′ 3.2 ″ N , 14 ° 2 ′ 15.6 ″ E