Filial church St. Laurentius (St. Lorenzen)

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Filial church hl. Laurentius with surrounding wall
The farewell of Laurentius from Jacob Brollo with Slovenian inscription

The branch church of St. Laurentius (Slov.: Šentlovrenc ) is a branch church of the parish church of St. Thomas am Zeiselberg (Slov. Šenttomaž nad Celovcem ) and is located in St. Lorenzen ( Šentlovrenc ) (market town Magdalensberg ( Štalenska Gora ) , Carinthia ).

Exterior

The church was first mentioned in a document in 1261. It is essentially Romanesque, the walls of the nave and the choir are Gothic. The building was rebuilt in the 18th and 19th centuries. In 1994 the church was restored. The mighty west tower is late Gothic and dates from the early 16th century. Its sound openings are ogival, the pointed helmet is eight-sided. On the west side there is a porch that rests on pillars and is cross-vaulted. The west portal is keel-arched and leads to the tower ground floor. This has a late Gothic star vault , and a pointed arcade leads to the nave .

Until the 1980s, the Slovenian inscription Bog jim daj sveti mir in pokoj (God give you holy peace and quiet), which had previously been painted over, was removed manually on the archway above the entrance to the cemetery wall surrounding the church .

Interior

The nave , which had been flat until then, was vaulted with groin vaults before 1889 and was given a gallery . The triumphal arch is rounded. The choir is the same width as the nave and has a 5/8 end and is vaulted with ribs. In 1994, Gothic tracery panels were found in the east window of the chancel . There is a Carolingian ornament stone on the step to the choir room. Fragments of Roman grave inscriptions are embedded in the floor.

The interior was painted in the 19th century. One picture shows St. Lawrence in front of the Pope with the Slovenian inscription Za tri dni za boš za menoj pridi (In three days you will follow me) and is drawn by the Friulian painter Jacob Brollo in 1889. The nave vault shows the Ascension of St. Lawrence. In the choir there are frescoes of the Annunciation and Adoration, which were uncovered in 1979.

Cultural and historical significance

The cultural-historical significance of painting, the traveling painter from Friuli Jacob Brollo, who worked in the tradition of the Pre - Raphaelites , stems on the one hand from the fact that Brollo was mainly active in the Slovene-speaking area and originally painted four churches in today's Magdalensberg community that are directly relevant for the Slovenian cultural life (in addition to the two preserved ensembles he also painted the parish church of St. Thomas am Zeiselberg / Šentomaž and, according to tradition, also the branch church of St. Margarethen / Šmarjeta ). In the branch church of Sankt Lorenzen / Šentlovrenc there is a painting with a Slovenian inscription. He also made the church of Sankt Martin am Freudenberg / Šentmartin pri Timenici . Although the inscriptions there are in German (which is probably due to the reign of Freudenberg), the Slav apostles Cyril and Method are depicted at the entrance . The parish itself was a predominantly to exclusively Slovenian parish of the diocese of Gurk at the time . In addition, the presence of wickerwork stone from the Carantan period as well as the fact that in Sankt Lorenzen / Šentlovrenc and the surrounding villages of Hollern / Bezovje , Schöpfendorf / Ovšje and Zinsdorf / Svinča vas had their own, initially carantanic and later Slovenian Edlinger jurisdiction the ancienity of Slavic / Slovenian linguistic and cultural continuity in the municipality.

Facility

The high altar dates from the middle of the 19th century. He carries a statue of St. Lawrence from the 19th century between baroque angels. The essay shows the kneeling Maria Immaculata.

The left side altar (around 1710) bears a painting with the lessons of Mary from the 19th century, a baroque top picture (St. Barbara) and on the altar table a crescent moon Madonna from the Villach workshop of the altar from Baierberg from 1520 to 1525. The right side altar dates from the end of the 17th century and bears a statue of St. Oswald from 1500/1510 and an image of St. Leonhard as well as the Slovenian inscription sveti Ožbolt (St. Oswald). The pulpit is baroque.

The winged shrine bears a figure of St. Lawrence from around 1500. The painted wings date from 1520/1530. The inside shows Saints Catherine and Barbara, the outside the Annunciation: on the left the angel, on the right Mary. The inactive leaves show St. George and St. Florian. The paintings come from the younger Villach workshop and are the only known example of this workshop from the 1520s.

supporting documents

  • Dehio Handbook Carinthia . 3rd edition, Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001. ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , pp. 757f
  • Wilhelm Wadl: Magdalensberg: Nature - History - Present. Community chronicle, Verlag Johannes Heyn, Klagenfurt 1995. ISBN 3-85366-812-7 .
  • Enciklopedija Slovenije (Volume A-Ca. - 1987. - XVII, 421 str. - 30,000 izv. OCLC 468393318), entry 'Jakob Brollo'
  • Katja Sturm-Schnabl , Kulturno življenje v fari Št. Tomaž od začetka 20. stoletja do nemške okupacije (The [Slovenian] cultural life in the parish of St. Thomas from the beginning of the 20th century to the German occupation), in: Koroški koledar 2009, Drava, Celovec 2008, pp. 139–156.
  • Franz Glaser (ed.), Celts, Romans, Karantans, Carinthian Art History , Carinthia Verlag, Klagenfurt 1998.
  • M. Mitrović: History of Slovenian Literature, From the Beginnings to the Present , Translated from Serbo-Croatian, edited and supplemented with selected lemmas and comments by Katja Sturm-Schnabl, Hermagoras, Klagenfurt / Celovec 2001
  • Theodor Domej, The Slovenes in Carinthia and their language with special consideration of the period from 1740 to 1848 . Phil Diss. University of Vienna 1986, VII, 562 pp.

Web links

Commons : Filialkirche St. Laurentius, Magdalensberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Enciklopedija Slovenije (Volume A-Ca. - 1987. - XVII, 421 str. - 30,000 izv. OCLC 468393318), entry 'Jakob Brollo' and Slovenian Wikipedia Jakob Brollo.
  2. ↑ Katja Sturm-Schnabl, Kulturno življenje v fari Št. Tomaž od začetka 20. stoletja do nemške okupacije (The [Slovenian] cultural life in the parish of St. Thomas from the beginning of the 20th century to the German occupation), in: Koroški koledar 2009, Drava, Celovec 2008, pp. 139–156.
  3. ^ Franz Glaser (ed.), Kelten, Römer, Karantaner, Art History Carinthia, Carinthia Verlag, Klagenfurt 1998.
  4. ↑ M. Mitrović: History of Slovenian Literature, From the Beginnings to the Present, Translated from Serbo-Croatian, edited and supplemented with selected lemmas and comments by Katja Sturm-Schnabl, Hermagoras, Klagenfurt / Celovec 2001 and Theodor Domej, Die Slovenenen in Carinthia and its language with special consideration of the period 1740 to 1848. Phil Diss. University of Vienna 1986, VII, 562 S., S. 85 f.

Coordinates: 46 ° 39 ′ 29.8 ″  N , 14 ° 25 ′ 30.6 ″  E