Filial church hl. Virgil (Gaishorn am See)
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The Roman Catholic branch church of St. Virgil is in the market town of Gaishorn am See in the Liezen district in Styria . The branch church consecrated to St. Virgil of Salzburg - incorporated into Admont Abbey - belongs to the Admont dean's office of the Graz-Seckau diocese . The branch church with a crucifix and the former cemetery area are under monument protection .
location
The church is located on a hill north of Gaishorn am See and can be reached via an unpaved path, which is difficult to drive on even by car . The direct way to the church is lined with a Way of the Cross , consisting of wooden panels mounted on covered wooden crosses on which the Passion of Jesus Christ is painted, on the right edge of the embankment. In the immediate vicinity there is a residential building and a hall chapel, which is also listed.
history
The origins of the church go back to the middle of the 15th century, with the predecessor church of today's church being built on August 10, 1448 after approval by the Archbishopric of Salzburg ( Archbishop Friedrich IV. ). After the then pastor of St. Lorenzen received approval for the construction, the actual building lasted until 1465, the church at the consecration of St. Virgil on 15 June 1465 by George II. , Bishop of Seckau , consecrated was. The first church only survived for around 15 years after completion. After the Turks invaded Styria frequently in the second half of the 15th century, they also came to the area around what is now Gaishorn am See in August 1480, whereby the church was destroyed by the Turks during this incursion. After the destruction by the Turks in 1480, the church was rebuilt and completed as a late Gothic church complex in 1524. In the following centuries the church was extensively renovated several times and other parts of the church were adapted or newly built. Major renovations in the last century took place in 1925, 1948 (500th anniversary) and 1982.
architecture
The church has an almost square floor plan and consists of a single nave nave with four bays and a choir , a northern side chapel from 1733, a Gothic sacristy south of the presbytery and a roof turret . The side chapel, which was added in 1733, is dedicated to St. Leonhard . The church complex can be entered through an ogival , almost keel- arched , barred Gothic west portal or through a round-arched Baroque south portal. The original pointed arch windows no longer existed today; meanwhile all the windows of the church have been redesigned in baroque style. In addition, the nave has a groin vault , whereas the two eastern choir bays, which are separated from the nave by a two-stage increase in the floor level, have an irregular star rib vault without capitals . This very vault lies on continuous round services , which in turn are anchored on pillars (see also pillar church ). A board-clad barrel vault spans the two western bays , although this cladding in its current form was not built until the 1980s. The side chapel , consecrated to St. Leonhard and therefore called the Leonardi Chapel , is one step higher and is only separated from the nave by an open and pressed semicircular arch. It also has the groin vault already mentioned. The sacristy is from the altar area by a circular portal divided with a wrought-iron door. A curved, two-flight staircase is located north of the main entrance and leads to the wooden music gallery , the turned baluster parapet from 1865 is mounted on two simple square wooden pillars. Longhouse, as well as choir are, with a steep gable roof covered. The roof turret equipped with a crowned Latin cross , with four sound windows and a tent roof , in whose bell tower two bells are mounted, is located on the west side of the church. The two bells were once donated by Johann Stoll from Sankt Lorenzen in Mürz Valley , who was the local mayor and mayor from 1895 to 1931.
Furnishing
On the right side of the Gothic west portal there is a large wooden crucifix from 1727. The high altar inside the church dates from 1619. The church also has a correspondingly smaller side altar in the Leonardi Chapel, which was added in 1733. The altarpieces of the high altar depict the Virgin Mary ( votive image ) and the two saints Leonhard and Isidor . Some of the artistically carved pews date from the 17th century. On the north side, next to the semicircular arch to the Leonardi Chapel, there is a baroque, marbled and gilded wooden pulpit, from which a preacher's arm with a crucifix protrudes. These pulpits with preacher's arms, all of which have black sleeves, mainly date from the Baroque period and can be found in many churches in the Eastern Alps. At that time they served as a warning against the quietly spreading Protestantism . There are also five oil paintings on wooden panels by the painter Johann Antony Pöttschnickh in the church , which are signed with his name and the year 1764. Pöttschnickh is responsible for various church paintings in this area, including a painting about the fire of Assach in 1749 in the Assach parish church or for a painting in the Antonius chapel of the pilgrimage church in Frauenberg an der Enns, which is incorporated into Admont Abbey . Other paintings in the church are even older and date from the early 18th century, among others.
literature
- Karl Weiß: Heimatbuch Gaishorn am See. Self-published, Gaishorn am See 2007, pp. 157–158
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Coordinates: 47 ° 29 '38.2 " N , 14 ° 33' 8.2" E