Aich / Dob branch church

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Aich / Dob branch church
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Painted window, priest and sundial

The Roman Catholic branch church Aich / Dob belongs to the Bleiburg parish and is dedicated to St. Sebastian . It stands at the southern entrance to Aich / Dob in the Bleiburg community .

Building description

The core of the church dates from the twelfth century and is a small Romanesque hall building with a retracted round apse, turret , wooden clapboard and western, wooden porch. The originally high windows were walled up and replaced by larger, deeper ones in the 13th century. The southern facade is dominated by a St. Christopher fresco from the 16th century. The nave has a wooden flat ceiling and a wooden gallery with stencil painting with a donor's inscription from 1593. In 1964/1966 frescoes from the middle of the 13th century were uncovered in the vault of the apse . It depicts a crucifixion group with Mary and John, flanked by two small kneeling donor figures. A martyr can be seen isolated on the right.

Facility

The high altar from the second half of the 17th century is an aedical altar . The altarpiece shows St. Sebastian. The statues lost in a theft have been replaced by figures created in 1981. These are Saints Clemens , Martin and, as a top statue , Saint James . The antependium from the beginning of the 19th century also shows St. James.

On the left side altar with a columned retable from the second half of the 17th century, a late Gothic crack is still used in the essay . A Madonna is depicted on the altarpiece. St. Laurence in the essay was also made in 1981. The right side altar also has a columned retable and dates from the same period. The altarpiece shows the crucifixion, in the top there is a figure of Christ.

The late Gothic console figure of St. James was created around 1500, that of St. Sebastian and Job in the middle of the 17th century. The oil painting of Christ's crucifixion was also painted in the 17th century. The Stations of the Cross are from the middle of the 19th century.

literature

  • Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia . Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 3 f.
  • Breda Vilhar and Milan Piko: "The sacred monuments of the Bleiburg deanery / Cerkvena likovna dediščina v dekaniji Pliberk". Slovenski narodopisni inštitut, Klagenfurt 2006 ISBN 3-7086-0206-4 , pp. 40-42.
  • Wilhelm Deuer: Jauntaler Kulturwanderungen - An art-historical companion through the Völkermarkt district. Verlag Johannes Heyn, Klagenfurt 2001,  ISBN 3-85366-977-8 , p. 90.

Web links

Commons : Filialkirche St. Sebastian, Aich / Dob  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 46 ° 37 ′ 36.7 "  N , 14 ° 48 ′ 45.4"  E