St. Petrus and Paulus (Würnsdorf)
The Roman Catholic branch church of St. Petrus and Paulus in the Lower Austrian village of Würnsdorf is a small, Baroque-style building from the early Gothic period with a Biedermeier east tower. It was first mentioned in a document in 1544. The listed church belongs to the Pöggstall parish and thus to the Maria Taferl deanery .
description
The nave and choir rise as a single building block above a rectangular floor plan and are covered by a high, hipped roof with a profiled eaves cornice. The western porch of the portal dates from the 19th century. The three-storey east tower with a profiled cornice, arched windows and an onion helmet over the crowning clock gable was built in the 19th century and is shifted slightly to the north from the axis.
The interior is unstructured and covered flat. In the west, a wooden gallery from around 1720 rests on two pillars. The tower's ground floor has a barrel vault and girdle arches.
Much of the earlier furnishings, including the high altar , the choir stalls and the pulpit , have been in the Pöggstall Local History Museum since 1970. The furnishings that still exist include an organ that was probably built around 1900. On the east wall there is a crucifix from the first quarter of the 18th century. A Madonna marked with “Kaindl” dates from around 1970. Statues of Saints stand on consoles . Peter and Paul from the first half of the 19th century. The altarpieces (Saints Leonhard and Florian) of the former side altars from the first quarter of the 18th century and paintings of the Stations of the Cross, which were consecrated in 1906, are also part of the furnishings.
literature
- DEHIO Lower Austria north of the Danube . Berger, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-85028-395-3 , p. 1314.
Coordinates: 48 ° 18 ′ 56.9 " N , 15 ° 10 ′ 17.7" E