Filial church Sankt Martin (Möderndorf)

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The Roman Catholic branch church Möderndorf in the municipality of Hermagor is dedicated to St. Martin and belongs to the Roman Catholic parish of Hermagor . The church was first mentioned in 1483 as newly built, but not yet consecrated.

Building description

Detail from the Christophorus fresco, attributed to Urban Görtschacher

The church is a small, elongated, late Gothic building from the 15th century. The two-axle nave and the two-bay, slightly retracted choir with a five-eighth section are under one roof. The six-sided roof turret in the middle of the building is crowned by a pointed helmet. A low sacristy is built to the north of the choir . The Christophorus fresco is framed with painted Renaissance pilasters . It was created around 1525 and is attributed to Urban Görtschacher . The choir and the nave have lancet windows , segment arched windows are located on the sacristy extension and to the left of the west portal. You enter the church through a pointed arched, profiled portal with a wooden door with late Gothic fittings and a key catch.

In the flat-roofed nave there is a wooden west gallery. A retracted, round-arched triumphal arch with a deep reveal connects the nave with the choir. In the choir, a ribbed vault rests on consoles. The keystones are repainted; one is labeled 1480. The paintings in the lunettes of the choir walls show half-length figures of the evangelists . A round arch portal leads from the north wall of the choir into the groin-vaulted sacristy.

Facility

The high altar , built around 1680, consists of a two-story double column structure with rich cartilage and a blown volute gable as an attachment. The altar has a Gothic statue of St. Martin on the main floor and the figure of St. George from the end of the 17th century in the top .

The side altar, a winged altar, is the former high altar and was built shortly before or around 1520 in the Nickelsdorf workshop. The wings, painted around 1515, show Saints Peter and John the Baptist on the inside, and the plague saints Sebastian and Rochus on the outside . The half-figure painted saints Barbara , Katharina and Margaretha can be seen on the predella . The shrine contains a figure of St. Martin carved around 1500. In conversation Enge are a recent plaster figure of a Madonna and late Gothic angel statuettes from the early 16th century.

The right side altar originally stood in the choir of the adjacent Church of St. Urban if Möderndorf and was built around 1520. The group of figures of the Holy Family with the Holy Spirit and God the Father in the altarpiece from the first half of the 18th century replaced the original statue of Saint Martin and Urban , which are now in the Diocesan Museum in Klagenfurt . On the inside of the movable wings, the painted representations of St. Florian and Sebastian can be seen and the Annunciation on the outside. The inactive leaves show the saints Eustachius and Pantaleon . The predella is painted with the half-length figures of the four Latin church fathers . Three neo-Gothic figures stand in the middle.

Other furnishings in the church include: a console statuette of the Queen of Heaven from the rural early baroque and the pulpit from the last quarter of the 17th century.

literature

  • Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia . Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 556 f.

Web links

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Coordinates: 46 ° 36 ′ 40.5 ″  N , 13 ° 21 ′ 50.7 ″  E