Parish Church of St. Nicholas of Flüe, Vestenthal

Parish Church of St. Nicholas of Flüe, Vestenthal

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Parish Church of St. Nicholas of Flüe, Vestenthal

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Location: Haidershofen, Mostviertel, Lower Austria, Austria

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🇦🇹 "AUT-Door" - Daniel 🇦🇹

July 30, 2024

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The interior is surprisingly simple, but the stained glass windows are all the more beautiful!

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Mostviertel Ursprung

February 12, 2023

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The large village church, built between 1957 and 1962, embodies the type of "conventional church of the national-romantic homeland style" (W. Zotti) that was common in the diocese in the immediate post-war period a new parish area of around 15 km2.The larger-than-life crucifix above the main altar and the Way of the Cross are by the sculptor Kunibert Zinner from St. Peter in der Au.The life-size statue of the Madonna of Fatima, created by the South Tyrolean sculptor Rifesser, is situated to the left of the ambo

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JakobusPilger

June 3, 2026

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This house of worship is one of the few churches known to me that is dedicated to Saint Nicholas of Flüe (after the village of Flüeli in the Swiss canton of Obwalden); one more often encounters chapels with his name. However, the patron is far better known by the simple name he himself used, "Brother Klaus". He lived from 1417 to 1487 and is revered as a hermit, mystic, and peacemaker. Brother Klaus's feast day in the calendar of saints is March 21 (the day of his death). He is the national saint of Switzerland.

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