Pfarrkirche hl. Bartholomäus Pöbring

St. Bartholomäus stands in Pöbring, a village in Lower Austria, on a rocky terrace above the Schwarzaubach valley. The late-Gothic church was built around 1500 from rough-hewn stone without plaster. Its low west tower barely rises above the steep roof of the nave. The building is listed as a historic monument. The church became a parish in 1784, though records show it had been a vicariate since 1334. Earlier it had been a branch of Weiten, and legend claims a medieval parish here was closed after a plague. The exterior shows a high, steep roof, buttresses with water spouts, and two doorways with richly moulded surrounds. A stone rosette sits above the south door, and the choir has a sacristy added around 1500. Inside, the nave was once a three-aisled hall but was shortened in 1797 to a single space with flat ceiling. The west gallery, built at the end of the 18th century, has basket-arched openings and pilasters. Behind the tall, moulded chancel arch lies the two-bay choir with a five-sided end and ribbed vault. The high altar, dated 1867, carries a carved crucifix flanked by painted figures of Mary and John. A Venetian altarpiece from 1500 shows the Madonna between St Jerome and St John the Baptist. The organ, built in 1911, has seven stops, and the church holds a late-Gothic font and a painted wooden crucifix from the 18th century.