Filial church St. Katharina im Bade
The Roman Catholic branch church of St. Katharina im Bade stands on a mountain slope west of Bad Kleinkirchheim . The church, first mentioned in 1492, is a branch church of the Bad Kleinkirchheim parish . The church was built over a healing spring, the water of which is collected in the barrel-vaulted room below the church. The room was adapted as a baptistery in 1993 and equipped with a baptismal font by Felix Orsini-Rosenberg .
Building description
The late Gothic complex consists of a three-bay nave and a one-bay choir of roughly the same width and height with a five-eighth end . The roof turret with a bell cast in 1469 is crowned by a pointed helmet. An entrance hall is built to the west. To the south in front of the Quellstube there is a pillar arcade hall and above it a wooden-roofed entrance to the 17th century church. The remains of a fresco of a sundial and a coat of arms on the choir polygon probably date from the Baroque era .
In the nave and in the choir, a ribbed vault rises above semicircular templates with capital rings . The church is illuminated by simple lancet windows with tracery noses in the end of the choir and in the south wall of the nave. From the choir north wall is ironclad doors in profiled leading garment into the sacristy . The wooden gallery in the entrance yoke, which was built around 1520, has flat carvings on the parapet, and wickerwork and interwoven ribbon on the underside and on the forehead of the entrance.
Facility
The winged altar was made in the younger Villach workshop soon after 1520 and is probably a foundation of the Order of St. George . In the altar shrine the carved figures of St. Catherine stand between St. Vincent and Barbara . In conversation narrow one's Crucifixion with Mary and John accommodated. The paintings on the inside of the movable wings show the birth of Christ, the adoration of the kings , the resurrection and the miracle of Pentecost ; the Annunciation can be seen on the outside . On the front of the fixed wings the saints Christophorus and Ulrich are depicted, on the back the plague saints Sebastian and Rochus . The paintings of the predella show the holy clan on the front in the middle and the saints Oswald and Apollonia and Domitian on the side. The angel with the handkerchief of Veronica on the back of the predella is labeled "Johannes Schnelle 1573". The back of the shrine is painted with Christ's departure from his mother .
The side altars and the pulpit were removed from the church in 1956.
literature
- Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia . Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 37 f.
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Coordinates: 46 ° 48 ′ 56.8 " N , 13 ° 46 ′ 49.4" E