Filialkirche Köcking

The Roman Catholic branch church Köcking in the market town of Eberndorf in Carinthia is consecrated to the saints Hermagoras and Fortunat . The church, first mentioned in a document in 1454, belongs to the Eberndorf parish .

Building description

The church is a small Gothic building with a roof turret and a reconstructed architectural polychromy from the 16th century. The core of the nave , which dates from the 13th century, has a Romanesque slit window with a painted frame on the gallery . The flat ceiling of the nave is marked 1692 and is painted in the four cassettes with the depictions of Saints Agnes , Margareta , Hermagoras and Fortunat. A pointed triumphal arch connects the nave and the recessed, polygonal choir with a ribbed vault from the 14th century. The sacristy is built on the south side of the choir .

Facility

The high altar from the last quarter of the 18th century has a late Baroque altarpiece with an open central niche and side sacrificial passage portals and bears the sculptures of the two church saints.

The two side altars date from the 18th century. The left side altar with a classicist wall retable shows St. Leonhard in the middle picture and the Madonna in the top picture . The structure of the right side altar resembles the left and shows Saint Agnes in the main picture and a holy bishop in the upper picture.

literature

• Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia . Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 411.
• Wilhelm Deuer: Jauntaler Kulturwanderungen - An art-historical companion through the Völkermarkt district. Verlag Johannes Heyn, Klagenfurt 2001, ISBN 3-85366-977-8 , p. 38.

Coordinates: 46 ° 34 ′ 42.1 ″  N , 14 ° 39 ′ 11.3 ″  E