Branch church Knasweg

Catholic branch church Hll. Andreas and Nikolaus in Knasweg

The Roman Catholic branch church Knasweg stands on the southern slope of the Radweger hill, south of Turracher Straße (B 95) in the village of Knasweg in the municipality of Moosburg in the Klagenfurt-Land district in Carinthia . It is consecrated to Saints Andrew and Nicholas and, as a branch church of the parish of Radweg, belongs to the dean's office of Feldkirchen in the diocese of Gurk . The building is a listed building .

history

The small Gothic church from the 14th century, with a Romanesque core , was rebuilt and redesigned in the early Baroque and after a fire in 1911.

Building

The south facade

On the south facade of the nave, a sundial and remains of a Christophorus fresco (16th century) can be seen. Paint residues on the north facade also suggest that it was painted earlier. The sacristy built on the north side is vaulted inside. In the eastern, clapboard roof turret hang two bells, the older one from 1448. The top consists of a tower ball with a wrought iron lily cross . The nave is covered with stone slabs.

In the porch standing on square pillars is a sacrificial table to the left of the arched portal. At the bottom left in the reveal of the entrance is a fragment of a fluted, Roman-era marble pillar walled in.

View from the nave into the choir

The nave with a western, wooden gallery is flat-roofed and opens to the choir with a round-arched triumphal arch . The elongated, single-bay choir with a cross ridge vault has a 3/8 end in the east.

The top of the roof ridge
The portal and the sacrificial table under the arbor

Facility

The baroque high altar from 1661 shows the carved figures of the church patrons Andreas and Nikolaus in the shrine. A mercy seat is shown in the medallion-like attachment . In the south wall of the choir, near the altar, there is a sacrament niche that can be locked with a wooden door . In the reveal of the triumphal arch there are console figures, on the left of St. Nicholas from the 17th century, on the right of St. Andrew from the 19th century.