Filial church St. Thomas in Hartmannsdorf
The Roman Catholic branch church of St. Thomas in Hartmannsdorf in the municipality of Friesach was first mentioned in a document in 1241. The Hartmannsdorf parish was independent until the Josephine parish reform in 1784, after which it became a branch of Gaisberg . The St. Thomas branch has been part of the Friesach parish since 1972 .
Building description
The church is a single-nave, Romanesque building with a straight choir closure. A bell from the 13th century hangs in the western vestibule tower with round-arched sound windows and a pyramid roof . A Gothic sacristy is built on the south side . The remains of the frescoes probably date from the end of the 13th century, the fragment of the St. Christopher fresco on the south side from the 15th century.
A wooden west gallery was built into the flat-roofed nave in the Baroque era . A basket-shaped triumphal arch connects the nave and the choir with vaults # cross vaults . The fragmentary, early Gothic frescoes from the early 14th century show Christ in the mandorla , the evangelist symbols and the Transfiguration of Christ in the choir vault . In the north wall panel, scenes from the life of Thomas of Canterbury can be seen.
Facility
The high altar is a small wall altar without any architectural structure from the second quarter of the 18th century. On it is a carved group with the unbeliever Thomas and to the side the Saints Donatus and Leonhard .
The right side altar from the middle of the 17th century consists of a small aedicule with side console figures and a blown volute gable with a small pedestal in the top. The altar panel shows St. Jerome . The figures represent the saints Rupert and Gregory .
The pulpit , built around 1700, is decorated on the front of the parapet with the half-figure representations of the apostles James Major and Philip .
literature
- Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia . Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 279 f.
- Siegfried Hartwagner: Austrian Art Monograph Volume VIII: Carinthia. The St. Veit an der Glan district . Verlag St. Peter, Salzburg 1977, ISBN 3-900173-22-2 , p. 99 f.
Coordinates: 46 ° 58 ′ 0 ″ N , 14 ° 24 ′ 21.7 ″ E