Branch church Waldenstein
The Roman Catholic branch church Waldenstein , a branch of Preitenegg, is dedicated to St. John Nepomuk . It stands across from Waldenstein Castle in the Preitenegg community .
The church was built in 1752 by Count Rudolf Franz Erwein von Schönborn . A gable turret with a wooden clapboard onion helmet rises above the baroque building with its pilasters . The bell was cast by Martin Feltl in 1755. The windows and the west portal are crowned by pointed gables.
The slightly drawn-in choir has a round finish on the outside and a polygonal finish on the inside. A flat barrel with stab caps arches over the two-bay nave . The pseudo-architecture of the wall and ceiling frescoes was designed by Friedrich Freidenberger in popular forms of the Bavarian Baroque and Rococo. Among other things, the apotheosis of Johannes Nepomuk is depicted .
The sculptural decoration of the church comes from the middle of the 18th century by Balthasar Prandtstätter , painted by Johann Georg Raff. The relief cartouches in the parapet of the pulpit show the three Christian virtues . On the back wall of the pulpit there are reliefs with Saint John Nepomuk and the Mother of God with the child.
literature
- Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia. Revised edition, 3rd, expanded and improved edition, edited by Gabriele Russwurm-Biró. Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 1050 f.
- Barbara Neubauer -Kienzl, Wilchelm Deuer, Eduard Mahlknecht: Baroque in Carinthia. With a contribution by Eva Berger . Carinthia University Press, Klagenfurt 2000, ISBN 3-85378-489-5 , pp. 21 + 157.
Coordinates: 46 ° 55 ′ 43.1 ″ N , 14 ° 53 ′ 9.7 ″ E