Branch church Klein Sankt Veit

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Branch church Klein Sankt Veit (2011)

The subsidiary church of Klein Sankt Veit is a Roman Catholic church in the Völkermarkter ( Carinthia ) cadastral community of Klein Sankt Veit. It is consecrated to the early Christian martyr and Saint Vitus and belongs to the parish of Sankt Georgen am Weinberg .

Location and history

On the road between Völkermarkt and Brückl lies the clustered village of Klein Sankt Veit in a valley. The church, which is mentioned in documents in 1045 and 1168, stands on a terrace in an elevated position. The building burned down in 1843 and was hit by a shell in 1919.

Architecture and design

The masonry of the church is partly Romanesque and was changed in the late Gothic period. The Gothic west tower has a pointed helmet with a stone plate covering. Stone pillars support the canopy. Through a round-arched portal on the tower ground floor one enters the groin-vaulted vestibule with a holy water basin from 1728. The west portal has a profiled pointed arch vault.

The nave has a flat Romanesque ceiling, the eastern, two-bay part has a groin vault with tendril paintings from the 15th century. On the north side the vault lies on consoles , on the south side on pillars with semi-columns in front. On the north wall of the nave there are red chalk drawings of unexecuted paintings from around 1340. They are: Judas kiss, Christ before Pilate, crucifixion and descent from the cross. The bricked west gallery lies on a basket arch and has a wooden porch. A round arch portal leads into the two-storey, groin-vaulted sacristy . On the outside you can see a Roman period inscription fragment. The year 1623 is written on the pointed triumphal arch. The slightly retracted, single-bay choir has a ribbed vault with a three-eighth end and a baroque vault painting. Angels of the Arma Christi are depicted.

The baroque high altar, attributed to Johann Pacher , is from 1720/30; the saints represent Joseph, Notburga, Veit, Isidor and Jakobus the Elder. The two side altars are from the middle of the 17th century, the late Gothic carved figure of St. Anthony the hermit on the right side altar is from around 1500.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ginhart: Dehio Carinthia. P. 302.
  2. ^ Ginhart: Dehio Carinthia. P. 302.
  3. ^ Ginhart: Dehio Carinthia. P. 303.
  4. ^ Ginhart: Dehio Carinthia. P. 303.

Coordinates: 46 ° 43 ′ 30.6 ″  N , 14 ° 32 ′ 43.5 ″  E