St. Karl Borromeo (Karlstift)
The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Karl Borromeo in the middle of the Lower Austrian hamlet Karlstift was built in 1772–1775 instead of a statue of St. Charles Borromeo built. In 1784 Karlstift was elevated to a parish . The church is a listed building and belongs to the Gmünd deanery .
description
The simple, late Baroque hall building with a retracted semicircular apse , pilaster strips and flat arched windows with stone fins has a roof turret from around 1810 with a bell cast by Johann Adam Perner in 1813. A sacristy was added to the apse in 1824 .
The interior has two yokes and an intermediate yoke , a barrel vault with stitch caps over belt arches on pilasters and a curved organ gallery .
On the neo-renaissance altar, labeled "JW Liebenau 1904", with figures of Saints Joachim and Anna in front of the inactive wings, there is a polychrome stone figure of St. Charles Borromeo.
Other church furnishings include baroque carved figures of hll. Johannes Nepomuk and Barbara from the third quarter of the 18th century and the figures of St. Peter and Paul from around 1770/80 from the former high altar.
organ
The organ was built in 1806 by the organ builder Josef Horak. The instrument was rebuilt in 1848 and 1935, and reconstructed to its original condition in 2007 as part of the church renovation by the organ building company, Johann Pieringer, using the historic case and pipe material. The organ has 7 stops on a manual (C – c 3 with a short major octave: covered 8 ′, viola da gamba 8 ′, principal 4 ′, flute 4 ′, octave 2 ′, mixture 1 1 ⁄ 3 ′) and pedal ( Subbass 16 ′).
literature
- DEHIO Lower Austria north of the Danube . Berger, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-85028-395-3 , p. 487.
Web links
- Entry on the Karlstift parish church in the Austria Forum (chapter sacred buildings)
- The history of the parish. In: pfarre.kirche.at.
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 48 ° 35 ′ 29.6 ″ N , 14 ° 45 ′ 2.1 ″ E