Evangelical Church Wolfsberg
The Evangelical Church Wolfsberg is located in the Neudau district of Wolfsberg . It was built as a cemetery chapel.
history
In 1857, Henkel-Donnersmark gave the 42 Protestant parishioners in Wolfsberg a piece of land at the Meierhof in Neudau. There they built a neo-Romanesque church in 1859/61 . Wolfsberg was a daughter municipality of Waiern from 1859 to 1864 , then a daughter municipality of Klagenfurt . In 1934 Wolfsberg became an independent Protestant parish.
description
The small hall church has a strongly recessed choir with a semicircular apse and a square gable tower with a pointed roof. A pillar canopy is presented to the western, roofed shoulder arch portal . The side walls inside are not structured, the organ gallery over two square pillars is designed as a separate wall. The wooden flat ceilings in the nave and choir were added later. The glass paintings in the large, arched windows were designed by Giselbert Hoke in 1972 . The choir windows depict the Passion , the windows in the nave depict the themes of “Message” and “Call to Decision”.
literature
- Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia. Revised edition, 3rd, expanded and improved edition, edited by Gabriele Russwurm-Biró. Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 1082 f.
- Alexander Hanisch-Wolfram: On the trail of the Protestants in Carinthia (= cultural hikes. Vol. 9). Verlag Johannes Heyn, Klagenfurt 2010, ISBN 978-3-7084-0392-2 , p. 44 f.
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Coordinates: 46 ° 50 ′ 4.5 ″ N , 14 ° 50 ′ 5.5 ″ E