!!!Schöngrabern

Schoengrabern, Lower Austria, market town in the district of 
Hollabrunn, alt. 251 m, north of Hollabrunn, in the Weinviertel 
region; cadastral district of the market town of Grabern. 
Late-Romanesque parish church (around 1210-1230), semi-circular apse 
with stylistically and iconographically unique reliefs (themes from 
the history of salvation, zoomorphic figures). Initially assumed to be 
of Romanesque origin, now disputed; the sculptures may date from the 
16%%sup th/%  century, some from the 14%%sup th/%  century. Gothic 
murals (around 1330 and 1350) in the interior.

!Literature
H. Fillitz and M. Pippal, Schoengrabern, 1987; M. Pippal, 
Schoengrabern Eine ikonologische Untersuchung, 1991.


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