Antonius Chapel (Virgen)
The Antoniuskapelle is a Roman Catholic chapel of the Virgen parish in the Virgen-Dorf fraction, the capital of the municipality of Virgen in the Lienz district ( Tyrol) . The chapel dates from the 17th century and, together with the neighboring Gothic wayside shrine, forms an important, listed ensemble in Virgen. It is one of the 24 listed buildings in the municipality of Virgen .
Building
The Antonius Chapel is located at the eastern entrance of the Virgen-Dorf fraction on Virgental Straße , which is the main route from Matrei in East Tyrol via Virgen to Prägraten am Großvenedigerrepresents. The early Baroque chapel building without a tower has a rectangular floor plan with a polygonal end and is protected by a steep, shingle-roofed gable roof. The chapel was last restored in 1989. In the western front of the simple building, a pressed arched portal, moved from the central axis and flanked by a viewing window, leads into the interior. The southern longitudinal wall and the sloping choir are each pierced by a rectangular window with deep, diagonally cut reveals, which are protected by wrought-iron grids.
Inside, the ceiling is formed from a barrel vault with asymmetrically arranged stitch caps. The altar is a brick cafeteria with a carved figure of St. Anthony under a canopy and two holy monks on a pedestal from the mid-18th century. Two reliquary busts from the same period, called Constantine I and Theodosius , were also attached to the wall . On the cafeteria there is a Sacred Heart figure from the end of the 19th century. The chapel also houses a prayer chair from the 18th century, a walled-in offering box and a wooden pietà with a blue marble setting in a glazed shrine from the early 18th century.
At the building there is also a protected wayside shrine from the middle of the 15th century. The Gothic tabernacle shrine has an octagonal shaft over a projecting base plate, an attachment with gable-shaped niches and a gable roof. The frescoes in the niches are only partially preserved and show the Last Supper, a crucifixion scene, the death of Mary and probably St. Sebastian.
Individual evidence
- ^ Tyrol - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. ( Memento from August 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) . Federal Monuments Office , as of June 28, 2013 (PDF).
literature
- Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.): The art monuments of the political district of Lienz. Part III. Iseltal, Defereggental, Kalsertal, Virgental. Verlag Berger, Horn 2007, ISBN 978-3-85028-448-6 (Austrian Art Topography, Volume LVII), 464-465
- Meinrad Pizzinini : East Tyrol. The Lienz district. His works of art, historical forms of life and settlement. Verlag St. Peter, Salzburg 1974 (Austrian Art Monographs, Vol. VII), ISBN 3-900173-17-6
Coordinates: 47 ° 0 ′ 5.8 ″ N , 12 ° 27 ′ 55.8 ″ E