Pfarrkirche Engabrunn, Catholic parish church in Engabrunn, Grafenegg, Austria
Pfarrkirche Engabrunn is a late Gothic hall church with a recessed choir and a squat three-storey west tower that rises only to the nave's ridge height. The tower has pointed-arch arcades on its north and south sides and an eight-sided masonry pyramid helm above a ring of pointed and round gables. The nave and choir are lit by two-light pointed windows with varied tracery and supported by stepped buttresses.
A chapel in Engabrunn was documented in 1465 and again in 1497, and from the late 15th century the site served as a local pilgrimage destination. The present late Gothic hall church was built from 1501 to 1513 and consecrated in 1522. A parish vicariate was set up in 1760, the church was incorporated into Stift Herzogenburg in 1788, and it was raised to parish church status in 1866.
The high altar is a carved neo-Gothic work consecrated in 1906, with statues of Saint Sebastian, Peter, Paul and Mary in the gable. Beside the 1966 people's altar stands the old baptismal font, and next to it a former Gothic sacristy portal now holds a display case with the Prager Jesulein image.
The church stands slightly elevated at the southern edge of Engabrunn, in the market municipality of Grafenegg. The former cemetery, originally north of the church on today's church square, was moved to the south side in 1787. The nave is entered through a shoulder-arched portal on the north side, in the middle bay, uncovered in 1972.
On the nave's north side, the middle bay holds a shoulder-arched portal with rich mouldings, uncovered in 1972. Beside it, in the eastern bay, a relief coat of arms dated 1522 shows vintner's tools, and a mask face with a branch-work staff is carved on a buttress.
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