Werschling branch church
The Roman Catholic branch church Werschling is located in the village of Werschling in the municipality of Himmelberg in the Feldkirchen district in Carinthia . The branch church of the Himmelberg parish church , consecrated to St. Thomas , belongs to the Feldkirchen dean's office in the Gurk-Klagenfurt diocese . The church and the cemetery are under monument protection .
history
One church was mentioned in a document in 1494. The core of the nave is from the 12th / 13th centuries. Century. The choir tower with the sacristy attached to the south with a leg chamber in the basement was adopted for the end of the 15th century. The wall paintings on the outside of the south wall are labeled 1516, although the colors from 1716 were restored in 1994 during a restoration.
Building
The essentially Gothic branch church stands on a knoll in the village of Werschling and is surrounded by a cemetery with an old stone wall.
The well-fortified building from the 14th century with strong walls has a canopy that is supported by the churchyard portal and a sacrificial table to the side in front of it . The interior has a flat, patronized wooden ceiling, which is painted with folk, Gothic leaf tendrils. An exposed, Gothic fresco remnant shows a scene with St. Laurentius .
On the outer wall there are old wall paintings depicting the ten commandments and the five commandments of the church, as well as a painting showing the donors on the southern front of the former ossuary .
The wooden ceiling of the nave
Fresco on the north interior of the nave
Facility
A statue of the Virgin Mary stands in the floral painted shrine of the baroque, two-column high altar. Assistant figures on the left are St. Elisabeth with the boys Johannes next to her and Jesus in her arms, on the right St. Barbara . A rare peculiarity is the representation of the Holy Trinity in three persons in the essay. To the left is St. Helena , on the right St. Elisabeth with the rose miracle.
On the side wall altars there are late Gothic and Baroque figures of saints (left Andreas , Thomas and Paulus ). These stand against a deep blue background.
The four fields of the pulpit (around 1700) are painted with the evangelists and each with a gospel text. Figures of the evangelists Mark and John are on the cover. The figures of Matthew and Luke were stolen in 1973. The front of the cover forms an Eye of Providence . It is crowned by a statue of St. Florian .
Left side altar
Right side altar
the pulpit
In the tower of the branch church there are three hand-ringing bells hanging. The smallest and oldest bell with a diameter of 46 cm and a weight of 53 kg bears the inscription "mert regrep 1511". The middle bell with the inscription "Maria Himmelskönigin, the people protection and helper" is a bronze bell with a diameter of 50 cm, which was cast in 1956 in Innsbruck by the Grassmayer company . The largest bell with the inscription "with my voice bright and pure I ring in the peace of my home" is a bronze bell with a diameter of 63 cm, which was also cast in Innsbruck in 1955.
literature
- Parish Himmelberg (ed.): Church leaders of the parish Himmelberg. The 4 houses of God in Himmelberg . without an author, without a year.
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Carinthia 2001 . Werschling, branch church St. Thomas, pp. 1066-1067.
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Coordinates: 46 ° 45 ′ 14.4 " N , 14 ° 3 ′ 24.4" E