Pfarrkirche Langenlebarn

The Catholic parish church of St Helena stands at the southern edge of Langenlebarn, a town on the Danube in Lower Austria. Built under the patronage of the Holy Helena, it belongs to the Tulln deanery in the Diocese of St Pölten and is protected as a listed monument. The church replaced an earlier structure swept away by the river in 1667. The building’s early Baroque form dates largely from 1671–76, though it has seen repairs after fires and damage. The tower, topped by a 19th-century onion dome, still bears traces of Turkish raids in 1683. Inside, a five-bay nave rises under a barrel vault with lunettes, while the polygonal choir contains a richly carved high altar transferred from Tulln’s old hospital. The interior also features a baroque pulpit, a 1906 organ by Franz Capek, and a late-19th-century set of Stations of the Cross. Outside, the churchyard holds a late Gothic relief of the Nativity and the Agony in the Garden, carved around 1500. The west front is a plain gable with a circular window and a small porch added in the mid-20th century. Inside, the floor is paved with Kelheimer slabs, and a spiral stair in the tower base leads to the gallery. The sacristy, with its cross-ribbed vault, opens from the north side of the choir.