Branch church St. Georgen (Villach)
The St. Georgen branch church in the municipality of Villach in Austria belongs to the St. Martin parish . St. Georgen was supposedly a vicariate of Maria Gail as early as 1267 . The first reliable mention is the re-consecration in 1489 after the destruction by the Turks .
Building
The small hall church consists of a baroque redesigned nave and a late Gothic choir. The small vestibule with a flat wooden ceiling was added around 1955, and the southern entrance also dates from this time. The slightly drawn-in choir with base zone is supported by two-tiered, strongly protruding buttresses . A pointed pyramid crowns the ridge above the choir. The sacristy is attached to the south between the nave and the choir. There is a coat of arms above the Gothic entrance portal.
A flat ceiling with stucco cassettes from around 1600 stretches over the nave. In the middle, St. George is depicted on a medallion . A retracted triumphal arch connects the nave with the one-bay choir with a five-eighth end . A ribbed vault with round keystones rests on round bars that end in consoles . A mask is depicted on the middle console on the north side.
Facility
The altarpiece of the high altar from the middle of the 17th century shows St. George. The painting of St. Notburga on the right side altar was painted by Johann Merckh in 1756. On the north choir wall there is a small sculpture of Anna Selbdritt from the beginning of the 16th century, to the left of which there is a painting of the risen Christ from the 17th century. On the southern wall of the choir there is a Romanesque Madonna, which is disfigured by later versions . A painting from the second half of the 17th century hangs over the Gothic sacristy door. St. George is shown as a figure carved around 1480 to the left of the triumphal arch and in a bust from the second half of the 17th century in the south nave. A Gothic predella and a Gothic cabinet with original fittings and an attachment with flat carvings are kept in the sacristy .
literature
- Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia . Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 725.
Coordinates: 46 ° 37 ′ 8.7 ″ N , 13 ° 48 ′ 14.9 ″ E