Baldersdorf branch church

The Baldersdorf branch church stands on a slope shoulder of the Millstätter See ridge above the village of Baldersdorf in the municipality of Spittal an der Drau . The church consecrated to St. Mary Magdalene belongs to the Molzbichl parish . During excavations from 1995 to 1997, an older round church from the 11th century with a rock grave of Benno von Molzbichl, a ministerial of the Bishop of Brixen , was found. Remains of the fortifications of the Ministerialenburg were excavated on the plateau around the church.

Today's late Gothic church with a wooden turret and western porch over pillars was built in the 15th century. The church is entered through the west portal with late Gothic profiled jamb and a door with Gothic castle. Inside, a pointed triumphal arch connects the single-nave, flat-roofed nave with the mesh vaulted choir with a five-eighth end .

The wall paintings from the 18th century show angels in the choir vaults with instruments of suffering and illusionistic architecture on the ceiling . The middle picture shows the transfiguration of Maria Magdalena. On the nave walls there are painted consecration crosses . The painting on the north wall of the nave depicts the washing of feet with Maria Magdalena, the one on the south depicts Christ with Martha and Maria Magdalena. When the gallery was removed in 1996, four large late baroque murals of a Magdalenian cycle and a crucifix, which Balthasar Klenkh painted in 1739, were fully visible . A painted crucifixion can be seen in the middle of the west wall.

On the altar with the altar sheet of St. Magdalena, which was built around 1700, there is a late Gothic Pietà made of artificial stone with a neo-Gothic setting. The console figures of a Man of Sorrows and a Mother of God on the triumphal arch wall, as well as a late Gothic holy water font, belong to the further furnishings .

literature

• Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia . Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 45 f.

Coordinates: 46 ° 46 ′ 41.2 ″  N , 13 ° 33 ′ 10.9 ″  E