Pfarrkirche hl. Andreas Grafenwörth

The Roman Catholic parish church of Grafenwörth stands on the main street in the village of Grafenwörth, part of the market town of the same name in Tulln district, Lower Austria. It is dedicated to Saint Andrew and linked to Herzogenburg Abbey, falling under the Hadersdorf deanery in the Vienna archdiocese’s Manhartsberg vicariate. The building is protected as a listed monument. Built in 1791 after the old church was demolished, the church is a Joseph II-style hall church designed as an ensemble with the nearby presbytery and former school. The north-facing structure has a narrow choir ending in a shallow round-headed apse, a three-storey tower topped by a bell-cast roof, and a rectangular door with a segmental pediment above which a round window sits in a stucco frame. Strong buttresses flank pairs of round-headed windows along the nave walls, while the sacristy and oratory occupy the western side of the choir. Inside, the ground floor of the tower is vaulted in barrel form, with two side doorways framed in scagliola marble leading to the staircases. The two-bay nave carries a series of barrel vaults with lunettes between double ribs, and the organ loft is also vaulted in a low barrel. The oval-vaulted choir is richly painted with late-baroque decoration, including ceiling murals by Leopold Mitterhofer showing the calling of Saint Andrew, the martyrdom of Saint Andrew, and the Assumption of Mary. The high altar, dating from about 1780, is a classical columnar design holding statues of Andrew, Martin and Augustine and a rococo tabernacle flanked by angels, while the Stations of the Cross were painted by Anton Mayer around 1800.