Pfarrkirche Eggern

The Roman Catholic parish church of Eggern stands in the village of Eggern, part of the market town of Eggern in Lower Austria. It is dedicated to Saint Giles and belongs to the Gmünd deanery in the Diocese of St Pölten. The church is protected as a listed monument.

The present building replaced an earlier chapel built in the 15th century. In 1784 Eggern became a parish, and the new church was consecrated in 1792. The design is a Josephinian style hall church with a square tower set in the middle of the village green. Inside, the flat ceiling is divided by pilasters and a curved wooden gallery rests on two columns. The chancel at the east end contains a sacristy.

The high altar, installed in 1824, features a classical frame and an 1895 tabernacle. The altarpiece shows Saint Giles painted by Josef Kastner in 1931. A side altar in a rounded niche holds a statue of Our Lady of Lourdes from 1895. The pulpit dates from around 1800 and two granite fonts in baroque style were added in 1895. A two-manual organ with ten stops, built by Friedrich Heftner in 1988, stands on the gallery.