Former church Reidenau

The former Reidenau church was a Roman Catholic branch church consecrated to St. Nicholas . It stands above the Reidenau settlement in the Liebenfels community . The church was mentioned for the first time in 1493, was still called a branch church in 1811 and is now secularized .

description

The mighty, tower-like, Romanesque quarry stone building with a high entrance in the northwest and one room each on the ground floor and one on the upper floor has a hipped roof covered with stone slabs . The building was originally built as a defense structure. In the 15th century a sacred room was set up on the ground floor. A gallery was built in, a drawn-in semicircular apse was added and a new entrance opened in the south-west. With the exception of the north-western front, the facade design dates from the end of the 15th century. The Gothic fan plaster with a painted frieze along the eaves has been preserved. Romanesque masonry can be seen in the base area of ​​the southeast wall, probably from the 13th century.

literature

• Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia . Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 676 f.

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Coordinates: 46 ° 46 ′ 13.8 ″  N , 14 ° 17 ′ 11.3 ″  E