Maria Feicht branch church
The pilgrimage and subsidiary church Maria Feicht in the municipality of Glanegg belongs to the parish of St. Gandolf . Between 1060 and 1076 the church was first mentioned as the Eppenstein family's own church .
Building description
The church is a late Gothic building from the first quarter of the 16th century. The tower on the south side of the choir has acoustic windows with tracery and twisted central supports and is crowned by an eight-sided pointed gable helmet. The basement of the tower houses a leg chamber . There is a stair tower on the west side of the tower. The nave and choir are supported by three-tiered buttresses . The middle part of the pillars consists of stone blocks placed over a corner, the eaves are grooved. The nave pillars have glare fields in the uppermost part. The shoulder-arched west portal is decorated with rich crossings. The north portal has a profiled donkey back , the south portal is profiled with bars. A Roman grave relief depicting a scribe with a scroll and a grave relief depicting the Attis pastor are walled into the south wall. On the north side there is an inscription for Valtidia Quarena, her husband Bardu and their son Ingenuus as well as for Secunda and her husband Covnertianus.
Roman relief of a scribe with a scroll
In the three-bay nave, a star rib vault rests on slender round pillars. The three-axis, two-bay west gallery is vaulted under star ribs and has several maker's marks on the tars. The gallery parapet is provided with rich tracery fields and is marked with 1524 on the console-like protruding middle section. A broad triumphal arch connects the nave and the single -yoke ribbed vaulted choir with a five-eighth end . A pointed arched portal leads from the south wall of the choir into the sacristy on the tower ground floor.
Facility
The high altar from 1681 with side pairs of columns, an attachment between a blown gable , sacrificial passage portals , rich cartilage decoration and a tabernacle from the middle of the 18th century occupies the entire width and height of the choir. The altar hides a Mother of God with child in the central niche. The princes of the apostles Peter and Paul stand above the sacrificial passage portals . The top picture of a coronation of Mary is flanked by the figures of the four evangelists . The carved antependium shows a mother of God with a child.
On the wall altar made around 1730 on the north wall of the nave with column architecture and blown gable stands a figurative crucifixion group from the end of the 17th century in front of an illusionistically painted Jerusalem. The statues of Saints Johannes Nepomuk and Franz Xavier are on the side on consoles . The top is made up of the carved sculptures God the Father , the dove of the Holy Spirit and adoring angels. The carved antependium is adorned with a relief of Mary. In the cafeteria there is a carved figure of a seated Madonna from the 14th century.
The late Gothic stone pulpit of 1510 with polygonal basket and spiral walk is on the jambs of the arch. The organ was set up in 1882 by organ builder Franz Corolic from Villach and originally comes from the parish church Treffen . Its painted wings depict King David and Saint Cecilia on the inside and the Annunciation on the outside .
In the northern choir wall, the coat of arms grave slab with the resurrection relief of Glanegg's caretaker Caspar Leonhard von Rämpichl, created after 1727, is walled in.
literature
- Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia . Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 498 f.
Web links
- Church on the website of the parish (PDF; 111 kB)
Coordinates: 46 ° 42 ′ 21.6 ″ N , 14 ° 13 ′ 0.2 ″ E