Filial church Gerlamoos

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The Church of St. George in Gerlamoos
inside view
Fresco of the Madonna of the Protective Cloak

The Gerlamoos branch church is dedicated to St. George and stands on the edge of the forest above the village of Gerlamoos in the Steinfeld community . The church was first mentioned in a document in 1065/75 as “palus Gerlinde” and probably belonged to a derelict knightly residence.

Building

The small Romanesque building underwent structural changes in the 16th and 17th centuries. During the exterior restoration in 1998, the early baroque, dark red architectural polychromy was restored. A low, strongly drawn-in, Gothic choir with a five-eighth end adjoins the nave . The sacristy is built to the north of the choir . A wooden roof turret with a bell from the 13th century rises above the eastern nave, crowned with a pointed gable helmet . The southern, double-stepped round-arched main portal comes from the Romanesque period. The late Gothic west portal has a profiled, canted lintel. The frescoes on the south wall from the end of the 14th century depict St. Christopher , the fight of George with the dragon, the crucifixion and the saints Catherine and Dorothea .

The interior of the nave has a flat roof and is illuminated by three tall, rectangular baroque windows in the south wall and a small Romanesque slit window above the south portal. A wooden gallery has moved in to the west. The back of her parapet is decorated with stencil painting. A pulled-down, round-arched triumphal arch with a wide reveal from the Romanesque style connects the nave with the choir. A late Gothic stitch cap vault with a star made of branch-like plaster ribs, which end in linear three-leaves, rises above the choir above thin, semicircular services . From the early baroque the rosette with and comes Perlstab plastically decorated keystone and the stucco frame fields in the soffit of the Triumph arc. From the north wall of the choir, an early Baroque door decorated with angels' heads leads into the sacristy.

  • St. Christophorus on the south facade

  • Fresco on the south facade

  • Stencil painting on the back of the gallery parapet

Murals

The frescoes were created in the seventies of the 15th century and are considered the most important work of Thomas von Villach . Three strips of approximately 140 cm high image fields fill the entire north wall of the nave. In the top row, eleven scenes from the legend of St. George are shown in an unusually detailed description of the subject, especially the martyrdoms. (Only the Georgs cycle in the Bohemian Neuhaus from 1338 is similar in the scope of the illustrations.)

  • St. Georg as a dragon slayer

  • Martyrdom of St. George

  • Martyrdom of St. George

In the middle row, the Christmas story from the Annunciation to the Presentation of the Lord is told in five fields and the Passion of Christ is told in four fields . In between is a protective cloak Madonna . In the lower row, nine pictures depict the sufferings of Christ, Christ's descent into hell , the resurrection , the ascension and the event of Pentecost .

  • Adoration of the Magi

  • The last supper

  • Suffering of christ

  • Suffering of christ

Facility

The high altar

The baroque high altar from 1705 with columned column shows the dragon fight of St. George on the altar sheet. In front of the triumphal arch, a crucifix with the tools of the Passion ( Arma Christi ) is attached. To the left of the triumphal arch is a carved late Baroque Pietà from the 18th century. On the altar under the gallery is a plastic representation of the “holy” sorrow on the cross with the kneeling violinist at her feet, from whom she threw her golden shoe (early 18th century). On the south wall of the nave are a rosary Madonna and a console figure of St. Florian attached.

  • Crucifix with the tools of suffering

  • Pietà

  • St. Grief

Trivia

The church plays a central role in the novel Here the landlord cooks by Alois Brandstetter .

literature

  • Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia . Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , pp. 190f.
  • Gottfried Biedermann and Karin Leitner: Gothic in Carinthia - With photos by Wim van der Kallen. Carinthia Verlag, Klagenfurt 2001, ISBN 3-85378-521-2 , pp. 180-182.

Web links

Commons : Filialkirche Gerlamoos  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 46 ° 45 ′ 55 ″  N , 13 ° 16 ′ 18.3 ″  E