Filialkirche Leiben

The Catholic filial church of St Corona stands high on a hill north of Leiben in Lower Austria. Built at the end of the 15th and start of the 16th century, it was vaulted and finished in 1594 under Wolf Dietrich von Trauttmansdorff. The late-Gothic hall church has a double choir and a west tower, surrounded by a walled cemetery. Inside, the two-aisled nave leads to a single-bay sanctuary with twin apses. Cross-ribbed vaults rest on polygonal piers with richly profiled bases, and the plaster ribs carry dates and monograms from 1591 and 1593. Three altars from about 1680 show carved Baroque ornament, and the high altar holds a painting of St Corona by Josef Pfeiffer from 1818. The organ dates from 1929. Outside, the south portal is framed by graffiti and two painted coats of arms of Trauttmansdorff and Volckhra. The cemetery gates of 1692 carry painted scenes by A. Dovalil, including an east gate with trumpeting angels. The west gate shows a crowned saint and a reclining hunter. The church and its graveyard remain under Denkmalschutz.