Winklarn parish church
The Winklarn parish church is located in the middle of the village of Winklarn in the Amstetten district in Lower Austria . The patronage of St. The Roman Catholic parish church subordinated to Rupert von Salzburg belongs to the Amstetten deanery of the diocese of St. Pölten . The church is a listed building ( list entry ).
history
The parish rights were in the 11th century with the parish church Amstetten-St. Stephan . A chapel was mentioned in documents in 1190 and 1234. In 1324 the church belonged to the Erla Monastery as a parish . It became a Protestant in the 16th century and became an independent parish in 1782. A restoration took place in 1976.
architecture
The essentially Romanesque church building is a two-aisled church with a double choir with a massive west tower on the right and slightly set in front of it, characterized by additions and conversions from different building phases.
Furnishing
The high altar as an early baroque columned retable from the second quarter of the 17th century was passed over in neo-baroque style in 1854; it shows the altar sheet St. Rupert from the beginning of the 18th century and carries a baroque statue of the Madonna in front of a halo, the side statuettes are male saints, the tabernacle from 1721 has a neo-baroque canopy. The side altar in the side choir as a late Baroque column retable with a volute bezel was restored in 1992, it shows the altar leaf Martyrdom of St. Katharina from 1770/1780.
Josef Panhuber built the organ in a case from 1840 in 1922.
Funerary monuments
- In the north choir: Conrad Halbmaier 1622. Two other tombstones name 1682 and 1715.
literature
- Winklarn, parish church St. Rupert, with floor plan, rectory. In: The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria south of the Danube 2003 . Pp. 2714-2716.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 5 ′ 30.8 " N , 14 ° 50 ′ 52.3" E