Bürgerspitalskirche (Klagenfurt am Wörthersee)
The former - but still so-called today - Citizens Hospital Church and today's Benefit Church of St. Sebastian in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee is a simple church built in 1663/64 in a Baroque style in the city center not far from Klagenfurt Cathedral .
history
The church is the third hospital church in the city. The first hospital with an attached church, first mentioned in a document in 1381, stood to the west in front of today's Landhaus on Heiligengeistplatz. After a large part of this facility burned down in 1535, the second hospital was built in front of the Protestant town church, which was built from 1581, today's cathedral, on the site of today's cathedral square. When both the church and the hospital building were transferred to the Jesuit Order in 1604, another new building was necessary. This was built in Lidmanskygasse until 1616 and a small chapel was added. It was not until almost 50 years later, in 1663, that the foundation stone was laid for the third church building that still exists today. It was consecrated to St. Sebastian the following year .
A large part of today's interior, including some works by Josef Ferdinand Fromiller , was made in the second quarter of the 18th century.
During the French occupation at the beginning of the 19th century, the church was used as a grain store. During the subsequent restoration, all statues were given white frames, the altar structures were painted over with oil paint. The interior was not fundamentally restored until 1967. In 2007/08 the facade was renovated, a wooden portal was removed and the entrance was given a glass roof.
The hospital complex also had a cemetery until 1862, when the municipal botanical garden was laid out in its place. After this was relocated to a more spacious area on Kreuzbergl in 1958 , this property was built.
Building description
On the east side, the church adjoins the simple, seven-axis structure of the former hospital. Externally it is characterized by pilasters rising from the floor , cornices , two arched windows and a small roof turret with an onion helmet . The hall construction planned by Christoph Puerkher has a semicircular choir closure to the east , the portal is on the north side of the nave . The interior is divided into four bays by the pilasters that carry a needle cap barrel. In the yoke on the west side there is a two-storey brick loft supported by a central pillar. On the south wall there are several oratorio windows latticed with wood, from which hospital patients could take part in church services, including two sacristy rooms on the ground floor .
The imposing six-column high altar on the built-in sacrificial passage doors is dated to 1741 and was created by Christian Prießniger. It is richly adorned with gilded foliage ornaments and takes up the large altarpiece with St. Sebastian (Fromiller, dated 1738). Above the altar there is a carved group of the Coronation of Mary with clouds and putti, to the side there are carved statues of Saints Januarius, Rochus, Sebastian and Judas Thaddäus. Other statues of Saints Barbara and Gertrude von Nivelles stand on volutes .
The gilded tabernacle is elaborately designed as a round temple and adorned with a small group of sculptures showing Christ on the cross with Mary and Joseph.
The structure of the left wall altar, dated 1739, is supported by two columns and two ornamented pilasters. The main picture painted by Fromiller shows St. Elisabeth, on the side there are statues of St. Barbara and Catherine, in the top a statue of the Savior, each accompanied by a putto . The right altar, created around 1725, has a simpler design, the picture framed by two columns, probably also by Fromiller, shows "The rest on the flight of the Holy Family", above is another picture depicting St. Francis Xavier is.
The high pulpit (around 1735) is only accessible from the outside. Four pictures of the evangelists are attached to her basket , the sound cover is adorned with putti and an angel blowing trumpets.
The church bell was made by Martin Pucher in 1794.
swell
- Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia . Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 357.
- Siegfried Hartwagner: Klagenfurt City (= Austrian Art Monograph , Volume X). Verlag St. Peter, Salzburg 1980 (reprint 1994, without ISBN), p. 152f.
Coordinates: 46 ° 37 ′ 20.6 ″ N , 14 ° 18 ′ 41 ″ E