St. Stephan (Horn)
The old parish church of Horn is raised in the southwest across the Taffa outside of the former fortifications of the municipality of Horn in the Horn district in Lower Austria . The Roman Catholic branch church consecrated to St. Stephen today belongs to the deanery Horn in the diocese of St. Pölten . The church is a listed building ( list entry ).
history
The parish was founded in the middle of the 11th century by Count Gerold and handed over to the Diocese of Passau . The parish went to the Göttweig monastery at the beginning of the 12th century and to Count Gebhard von Poigen around 1125. In 1144, a tithe was mentioned in the Altenburg monastery letter and confirmed in a document in the middle of the 14th century. The parish went to the Maissauers in the end of the 14th century and later, with the rule of Horn, to the Puchheimers . In 1620 the parish went to the Jesuits and in 1689 again to the Altenburg Abbey.
The core of the Romanesque church building has a Gothic elevated baroque nave and a Gothic choir from the 14th century. The interior of the church was restored in 1928. In 1980/1981 the whole church was restored, in the process the remains of the Romanesque choir square and the recessed round apse were excavated.
architecture
The church is raised in a walled cemetery in the middle of a former church settlement. The east-facing staircase was built in 1669.
The Romanesque walls of the nave have been preserved, some Romanesque architectural parts with wall paintings are visible in the attic. In the southern outer wall made of flat quarry stone with grouted mortar, narrow funnel-shaped arched windows from the 12th century have been preserved in the lower zone, and there a round-arched gable portal around 1250. The saddle roof in the roof gives the year 1899 and covers the nave with the baroque porch and the northern St. Catherine's Chapel. In the attic, on the former support of the roof truss, there are Gothic pointed arches which are partly overlapped by the baroque vault. There are segmental arched windows from the first half of the 18th century. The southern front shows smooth pilaster-like struts. The smooth western front with a round hatch in the gable has a rectangular stone-clad window from the 17th century on the northern extension.
The choir has a raised eaves line with two-stepped buttresses with water hammer and tracery in the gable and two-lane, partly walled-up pointed arch windows, in the south and east a three-lane pointed arched window with three-leaf, three-pass and four-pass tracery.
Furnishing
Remarkable early baroque high altar by Caspar Leusering from 1647.
The organ was built by Johann Hencke (1738), the Rückpositiv by Anton Pfliegler (1776), and the organ was transferred here from the Georgskirche in 1805.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria north of the Danube 1990 . Horn, parish church of St. Stephan with floor plan, cemetery. Pp. 450-453.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 39 ′ 42.8 " N , 15 ° 39 ′ 11.6" E