Parish Church Tulln-St. Severin

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Catholic parish church of St. Severin in Tulln on the Danube
Interior of the parish church

The parish church Tulln-St. Severin is at Anton-Bruckner-Straße No. 12 in the municipality of Tulln an der Donau in the Tulln district in Lower Austria . The Roman Catholic parish church consecrated to St. Severin von Noricum belongs to the deanery of Tulln in the diocese of St. Pölten .

history

The church was built in 1972 according to the plans of the architect Rudolf Sigmund. The church was elevated to a parish church in 1982. From 1988 to 1990 it was converted into a pastoral care center; In 2001 the bell tower was redesigned.

architecture

The modern church building has a square floor plan with a beveled corner with narrow ribbon windows and a diagonally arranged hipped roof surrounded by one and two-story buildings of the pastoral care center, connected by open covered corridors. The bell carrier is free.

The interior of the church shows itself through a square church space with a diagonally arranged main axis of the altar to the organ and an open roof structure with the light guidance through the glazed ridge area. The figural and abstract glass painting was created by the glass painter Kurt Czernia.

Furnishing

Most of the furnishings were created by the sculptor Josef Weinbub in 1972, the wooden cross-path reliefs in 1978 and the bronze portal in 1998.

The organ from the organ building company Walker is from 1992.

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Coordinates: 48 ° 19 '22.9 "  N , 16 ° 4' 5.8"  E