Pfarrkirche Stützenhofen, Catholic parish church in Stützenhofen, Drasenhofen, Austria
Pfarrkirche Stützenhofen is a plain hall church on the village green at the southwestern edge of Stützenhofen, in the municipality of Drasenhofen. Its slightly projecting west tower has pilaster strips, round-arched sound windows and an onion dome. The narrower choir ends in a three-eighth apse with buttresses, and the sacristy adjoins it on the north side.
A vicariate of Falkenstein existed before 1400, and a local chaplaincy was recorded in 1784. The parish itself was documented as founded in 1878. The Gothic building of the 14th century was baroquised in 1667, given a western bay in the third quarter of the 18th century, and received its tower facade in the 19th century.
The choir displays features from different periods and preserves tombstones of the Fünfkirchen family from the 15th to 17th centuries. These memorials tell the story of a local noble family that shaped the region across generations.
The church is open throughout the year as it belongs to the Poysdorf parish of the Archdiocese of Vienna. It is advisable to check service times as religious functions are held regularly.
The church holds three heraldic gravestones of the Fünfkirchen family: two outside, dated 1590 and 1650, and one inside on the north choir wall from 1458. In the cemetery at the southwestern edge of Stützenhofen stands the family's neo-Gothic burial chapel, built in 1870 on a high base storey, reached by an external staircase on the north side.
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