Filial church St. Georgen (Rennweg am Katschberg)
The Roman Catholic Church of St. Georgen in the village of Sankt Georgen in the Rennweg am Katschberg community is a branch church of the parish of St. Peter in Katschtal . She is the St. George consecrated.
history
The church is first mentioned in 1351 as a branch church of St. Peter in Katschtal. A renovation took place in 1513 and a new building from 1780 to 1782. After the tower was destroyed in a fire in 1860, the reconstruction was completed in 1892.
Building
The large late baroque hall church was built from 1780 to 1782 in place of a previous building that had been dismantled. The nave is three bays , the choir two bays. The tower on the north side of the nave is still Gothic in the lower part. The west gallery is two-storey: the lower singing gallery with closed parapet, above the organ gallery. The windows in the choir show stained glass.
View to the west gallery
Color window
Facility
The high altar is a late Baroque, hexastyle shrine -Altar with sacrifice portals and essay. The altarpiece shows St. Georg slaying a dragon , painted by Josef Messner in 1881 . Assistant figures are the apostles Paul on the left and Peter on the right, both from 1883. In the essay, the Holy Spirit is depicted as a dove surrounded by angels.
In the shrine of the classicist left side altar (marked 1806) there is a late Gothic statue of the Virgin Mary Queen with Child. The classicist right side altar from 1838 has a baroque framed altarpiece from the 17th century. It shows St. Sebastian . The rococo pulpit dates from the 2nd half of the 18th century. Other furnishings include the console statues of the Man of Sorrows , the Mother of Sorrows and a statue of the Sacred Heart of Jesus from the 18th century. The paintings of the Way of the Cross (around 1800) were transferred here from St. Peter in 1917.
Left side altar
Right side altar
the pulpit
Console statue Man of Sorrows
Sorrowful Mother
8. Station of the Cross, meeting the weeping women
Web links
https://www.kath-kirche-kaernten.at/pfarren/detail/C3008/filialkirche_st._georgen_im_katschtal
literature
- Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia. Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 727f.
- Josef Hörner, Christine Peitler: Parish Leader St. Peter in Katschtall, Parish St. Peter in Katschtal 2011
Coordinates: 47 ° 1 ′ 28.7 ″ N , 13 ° 36 ′ 37.6 ″ E