Filial church St. Ruprecht (Villach)
The Roman Catholic branch church of St. Ruprecht in the Villach district of St. Ruprecht is consecrated to St. Ruprecht .
history
The church of St. Ruprecht was first mentioned in a document in 860, when King Ludwig the German gave farms to the Archbishop of Salzburg, Adalwin . In 1195 a pastor is named Ulrich. The current church was built in the first half of the 13th century. The clapboard covered, pressed hood with lantern was added to the tower in the 19th century. In 1956 the parish seat was moved to the parish church of Maria Landskron .
There is a life-size Romanesque crucifix at the former cemetery . On the western wall is the tombstone of Marja Preseren, who died in 1842, the mother of the Slovenian poet France Prešeren .
Architecture and equipment
St. Ruprecht is an essentially Romanesque choir tower church . The tower has in the east of the Romanesque, third tower floor, the bell floor, a walled-up round-arched twin window. The bell was cast by Andreas Simon Röter in 1743. The tower clock is on the fifth floor. In 1975 three small early Gothic pointed arch windows were exposed on the south side of the Langghaus. The flat arched west portal is protected by a wooden gable canopy.
Inside
The four-bay nave is spanned by a three-bay, late Gothic star rib vault from the 15th century, which rests on drawn-in pillars with round bars . The western yoke with barrel vault and belt arch was added at the end of the 18th century. Here is a three-axis, brick gallery. A pointed triumphal arch connects the nave with the square choir , the tower ground floor, which is covered by a Gothic star vault. A pointed arched portal leads from the choir to the sacristy to the north . To the right of this is a Gothic sacrament niche with a wrought iron grille.
The frescoes in the choir from the successor of the master Friedrich von Villach were created around 1460. They were partially renewed in 1929. On the end of the choir wall they show the Last Judgment , in the choir vault the Lamb of God , evangelist symbols and tendril paintings.
The two neo-Gothic side altars, the St. Mary's altar on the left and the Joseph's altar on the right, as well as the pulpit without figural decorations, were made by Johann Zernatto in 1887. The organ dates from the second half of the 19th century. A relief with the birth of Christ, dated around 1515, is kept in the Diocesan Museum.
literature
- Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia . Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 818 f.
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Coordinates: 46 ° 38 '48.2 " N , 13 ° 52' 14.3" E