Branch church Pirkach

The Maria Pirkach branch and pilgrimage church in the pilgrimage site of Pirkach in the municipality of Oberdrauburg belongs to the Roman Catholic parish of Ötting . Today, since 1963, she has been consecrated to the Queen of the Rosary. Originally a Maria Immaculata patronage, it was consecrated in 1833. The pilgrimage church, donated by the Tschabuschnigg family and built between 1800 and 1803 by the brothers Michael and Josef Köfler on the spot where Our Lady appeared several times to a peasant girl in the late 18th century. During the Napoleonic times of Upper Carinthia, the church was bricked up because of the “religious fanaticism of the Manharter”Trinity - consecrated.

Building description

The medium-sized late Baroque or early Classicist wall pillar church with a drawn-in, just closed choir and a curved gable on the west facade is structured by painted pilasters and ribbons. There are basket arch portals on the south and west sides. The tower north of the choir is crowned with an onion dome. A low sacristy is added to the south .

The wide, bright interior is structured by pillars with Ionic pilasters and plaited capitals. The choir and nave have rounded corners and are vaulted by a barrel with stitch caps and cranked beams . Above the high rectangular windows with plait decoration, there are smaller segmented arched windows in the lunettes above the main cornice. The walled pulpit with plaited decoration on the north wall of the nave is accessible from the outside via a staircase. The organ gallery stands on two pillars. The organ with painted wings from the second half of the 17th century comes from the parish church in Kötschach and was brought to Maria Pirkach in 1850.

The wall and ceiling painting comes from Christoph Brandstätter the Elder from 1803/1804 (inscription: Christ Prandstätter Pinxit 1803 ). The architecture of the back walls of the high altar and the side altars are painted as pseudo-architecture . The Annunciation can be seen above the high altar, the Assumption in the choir vault and the Sacrifice and Visitation to the side. The ceiling painting in the nave shows the apparition of Mary from Pirkach with the kneeling family of the benefactors as well as the four evangelists and the princes of the apostles Peter and Paul in medallions .

Facility

On the high altar is a rococo tabernacle from the mid-18th century and a group of figures from around 1700 with an enthroned Mother of God with a child in a halo and above God the Father and the dove of the Holy Spirit. The secrets of the rosary are shown on 15 round pictures . On the side altars are the statues of Jesus as the Good Shepherd , who nourishes his people with his own blood, as well as a Good Shepherdess, who symbolizes the Church. Francis of Assisi and St. Oswald are painted behind the side altars . A baroque cross and a pietà , surrounded by mourning angels, are placed above the side entrance . A statuette of Mary as Queen of Heaven from the 17th century is kept in a display case in the sacristy.

literature

• Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia . Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 990 f.
• Bianca Kos: "A dream - The Biedermeier - architecture in Carinthia in the first half of the 19th century". Verlag des Geschichtsverein für Kärnten, Klagenfurt 2010, ISBN 978-3-85454-117-2 , p. 108.

Coordinates: 46 ° 45 ′ 33.2 "  N , 12 ° 55 ′ 39.2"  E