St. Wolfgang (community of Weitra)

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St. Wolfgang ( village )
locality
cadastral community St. Wolfgang
St. Wolfgang (Weitra municipality) (Austria)
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Basic data
Pole. District , state Gmünd  (GD), Lower Austria
Judicial district Gmünd in Lower Austria
Pole. local community Weitra
Coordinates 48 ° 40 '18 "  N , 14 ° 52' 54"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 40 '18 "  N , 14 ° 52' 54"  Ef1
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Residents of the village 116 (January 1, 2020)
Building status 56 (2001)
Area  d. KG 4.25 km²
Statistical identification
Locality code 03733
Cadastral parish number 07352
Counting district / district St. Wolfgang (30942 005)
Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; NÖGIS
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St. Wolfgang is a cadastral community of Weitra in the Gmünd district in Lower Austria .

Parish church of St. Wolfgang near Weitra

geography

St. Wolfgang is located in northwestern Lower Austria ( Waldviertel ) at an altitude of approx. 648 meters south of Weitra am Wolfgangbach.

The village has 126 inhabitants. (2001, source: Statistics Austria)

history

The place was called Pfaffenschlag until the 16th century, the name denotes a clearing from the 11th to 12th centuries. After that, the place name was adapted to the patronage of the church, then a well-known place of pilgrimage . In 1583 the church was confiscated by the Protestant nobleman Christof von Prag auf Engelstein, but in 1617 it was taken back by force by Abbot Seifried von Zwettl.

Attractions

  • The parish church of St. Wolfgang bei Weitra is a late Gothic hall building from 1407 with an approximately square floor plan and an elongated choir . It is on a step dominating the place. The most important piece of the interior is the baroque altar by Balthasar Threyer from the years 1692–1694, which contains three artistically valuable monumental wooden sculptures from around 1490, depicting the Saints Erasmus , Wolfgang and Nikolaus . Also of interest is a death shield with a wooden skeleton on the gallery (marked 1670), as well as Gothic wall paintings from the 15th century.
  • In the village and on the streets leading to the neighboring villages there are several tabernacle pillars and niche shrines from the 15th to 19th centuries.

literature

  • Evelyn Benesch, Bernd Euler-Rolle , Claudia Haas, Renate Holzschuh-Hofer, Wolfgang Huber, Katharina Packpfeifer, Eva Maria Vancsa-Tironiek, Wolfgang Vogg: Lower Austria north of the Danube (=  Dehio-Handbuch . Die Kunstdenkmäler Österreichs ). Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna et al. 1990, ISBN 3-7031-0652-2 , p. 1024-1026 .
  • Franz Eppel : The Waldviertel, its works of art, historical forms of life and settlement , Salzburg 1989, ISBN 3-900173-01-X