Saint Barbara Church, Heritage church in Hüttendorf, Austria.
The parish church of Hüttendorf, dedicated to Saint Barbara, stands between two village streets in the Mistelbach municipality. Its late Gothic chapel with a five-eighth polygonal apse was extended westward by one bay around 1730 and given Baroque round-arched windows and ox-eye windows. The west front has pilasters, an attic zone and a volute gable, with a Baroque stone figure of Saint Barbara in a niche.
A vicariate was recorded around 1400; the parish itself was founded in 1783. The late-Gothic chapel with a five-eighth polygonal apse received a south tower around 1701, and around 1730 the church was remodelled in Baroque style and extended westward by one bay. The two-storey tower portal bears the inscription M. K. 1769.
The high altar holds an oil painting of the Martyrdom of Saint Barbara from the first half of the 19th century, set in a Baroque frame. A Madonna image is a copy of the Maria Pötsch grace image in Vienna's Stephansdom, and Baroque figures of Christ Resting and Saint John the Baptist are kept in the church.
The site is located in the Mistelbach district and is accessible by car or public transport. Visitors should remember this is an active place of worship, so regular service times should be observed.
The tower portal bears the inscription "M. K. 1769", a date that does not match the tower's own construction around 1701, suggesting the portal was reset or reworked later. The onion dome above it was renewed after 1945, replacing war-era damage.
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