Filial church Seltenheim
The branch church Seltenheim is located in the Rotte Seltenheim in the 14th district of Wölfnitz in the municipality of Klagenfurt am Wörthersee in Carinthia . The Roman Catholic branch church consecrated to the Apostle Andreas belongs to the dean's office of Klagenfurt-Stadt in the diocese of Gurk-Klagenfurt . The church and the cemetery are under monument protection ( list entry ).
history
Remains of a medieval castle that was assumed to be near Seltenheim, mentioned in documents in 1193 and 1222, form the core of today's Filialkirche Seltenheim. In 1996 the stone slab roof was repaired; A restoration took place in 1999/2000.
architecture
The core Romanesque small Gothic church is surrounded by a cemetery isolated on a hill.
The Gothic west tower with coupled, arched sound windows and loopholes has a pyramid helmet. To the west of the tower is an open vestibule. There is a low sacristy annex on the north wall of the nave . The tower and nave have a stone slab covering. The Gothic choir with a five-eighth closure has clover-leaf and tracery windows . The profiled Gothic pointed arch portal has a door with Gothic fittings.
The south side of the church shows a fragment of a Christopher - fresco . In the north wall of the choir is a small stone with an early Romanesque cross.
The interior of the church shows itself as a four-bay nave, the two western bays are tapering with burr cross vaults, the two eastern wider bays with ribbed vaults on consoles and round services. The inclined, drawn-in front arch connects the nave with the cross-ribbed vaulted choir with a keystone with a pelican relief. In the northern slope of the choir there is a stone console with a coat of arms with two sickles, to the left of which is a small Gothic sacrament niche with a rosette grille. There are two layers of frescoes under the whitewash.
The wooden singers' gallery has painted tracery on the parapet.
Fresco finds uncovered in 1998/1999 show a man of Sorrows on the north wall of the choir with instruments of suffering above the sacrament niche, on the north wall of the triumphal arch St. Barbara with donor from the second quarter of the 15th century, three standing saints (Barbara, Dorothea and Margaretha ) in arched architecture with crabs and zigzag ribbon on the north wall of the nave in a secco technique, there is a preliminary drawing of a female figure enthroned under the cloverleaf architecture second half of the 14th century.
Furnishing
The branch church has a remarkable Gothic cafeteria painted with apostles in niches. The high altar around 1680 later bears Baroque figures of Andreas , Georg and Florian . The two side altars with lush ornamental carvings from around 1720 are connected above the triumphal arch, they have folk carvings, on the left Maria Immaculata and Andreas, on the right Oswald and Georg. In the northern niche of the choir stands the figure of St. Oswald from the 17th century. A small early baroque figure of David stands in front of the choir parapet.
Tombstones
- At the church
- On the north side of the upper part of a Roman grave stele with an eagle and a snake in the gable and sea griffins in the corners.
- On the north side of the end of the choir, a fragment of an ornamented coffered ceiling from a grave building
- On the north side the coat of arms grave plate of Andrä Paradeiser 1517.
- To the right of the profiled Gothic pointed arch portal tombstone of Elspet Hanssen-Raidhaubt 1480.
- In the church
- In front of the southern triumphal arch epitaph with relief "Resurrection" and double coat of arms of Catharina Putz 1605.
- On the south wall the coat of arms of the Kometter zu Trübein family as Lords of Seltenheim.
literature
- Seltenheim, Statutory City of Klagenfurt, Filialkirche St. Andreas, with a floor plan. In: The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Carinthia 2001 . Pp. 873-874.
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Coordinates: 46 ° 39 ′ 33.8 ″ N , 14 ° 15 ′ 12.5 ″ E