Branch church Kraschach

The Roman Catholic branch church in Kraschach is dedicated to St. Nicholas . It is in the Hermagor parish and belongs to the Mitsching parish .

The church, first mentioned in 1331, is a Romanesque - Gothic building with a roof turret and a retracted, lower choir. The St. Christopher fresco on the outside of the south wall dates from the second half of the 14th century. The round-arched, Gothic west portal has an iron-studded door.

The flat-roofed nave is provided with early baroque stucco cornices. A wide, pointed triumphal arch connects the nave with the ridge-vaulted choir. Arched windows illuminate the interior of the church. The fresco of a crucifixion with Mary and John on the north wall of the choir was probably made at the end of the 14th century.

Mathias Stüber created the main altar in 1736. The carved figures of St. Nicholas and a Mother of God belonging to the altar were made by the younger Villach workshop around 1506 and are now in safekeeping. The left side altar has a Gothic altar shrine with a painted, baroque frame and carries a Lourdes Madonna . The pulpit dates from the beginning of the 18th century.

Other furnishings in the church include rural oil paintings of Antonius in front of Our Lady from the 17th century and St. Ursula from the 18th century.

literature

• Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia . Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 425.

Coordinates: 46 ° 37 ′ 20.7 ″  N , 13 ° 19 ′ 9.1 ″  E