Heiligblutkirche Friesach
The Holy Blood Church , also known as the Seminary Church, is located under the Rotturm ruins in the so-called Sack in Friesach . It is a Roman Catholic branch church of the Friesach parish church .
history
The first church on this site was owned by the Viktring Cistercians . It was consecrated in 1194 and became a victim of flames between 1211 and 1215. In 1217, the Dominicans established their first settlement in the German-speaking area next to the church and built a monastery building. In 1238 a blood miracle is said to have occurred here during a mass celebration, in which, according to a copy from the St. Peter monastery in Salzburg, the host was transformed into flesh and the wine into blood. This change in the essence of wine and bread had only been raised to dogma 23 years earlier at the Fourth Lateran Council . After 1255 the Dominicans moved to today's monastery in the north of Friesach outside the city walls.
Then Cistercian women took over the church and monastery. After the church was damaged again by fire in 1289/1291, it was rebuilt in 1309. In 1608 the monastery was abolished and a seminary was set up by the Salzburg archbishop Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau . After another fire in 1673, the church was rebuilt in 1684 because of the saint blood cult, but the monastery building was left to decay.
Building
The church building from the 14th century with 5/8 end has a narrow bell tower with an onion helmet in the west facade. From the outside, the choir and nave are not visibly separated. On the choir polygon and on the north side of the nave, the walls are supported by double-stepped buttresses and broken up by high double lancet windows. On the south side there is a continuous, two-storey baroque extension. The church is entered through pointed arched, profiled portals on the north side of the nave. The coat of arms grave of the abbess Sophia Reifnitz from the first half of the 16th century is remarkable.
In the single nave nave, a ribbed vault extends onto consoles. In 1627 a nuns gallery was built into the western half of the nave. The space under the gallery is a three-aisled, three-bay hall with groin vaults without a yoke separation, which is separated from the eastern part of the nave by a three-part, pointed arched pillar arcade. The four western pillars of the gallery are Romanesque columns with corner leaf bubbles and cube capitals and probably come from the first church building in the 12th century. The painted archiepiscopal coat of arms of Paris by Lodron is attached to the gallery parapet . In the north wall of the choir there is a late Gothic sacramental niche in rectangular walls with side half-columns. Above is the rest of a fresco. On the south wall of the choir there is a pointed arched sacrament niche with a three-pass opening. Next to it is the sacristy door. On the south side under the gallery a round arch portal leads into a groin-vaulted room with the staircase to the gallery. A portal embedded in the south wall of the gallery with beveled rectangular walls is the access to the groin vaulted central area of the southern extension. This is followed by the two-storey, groin-vaulted sacristy with large baroque windows.
Facility
The church's furnishings include a high altar from 1681. In the aedicula, made up of coupled columns, a seated Madonna with a late Baroque child Jesus is set up under a late Baroque canopy. The Madonna is flanked by the Gothic saints Bartholomäus and Katharina . The altarpiece shows a chalice with a host and a crucifix. On the left is the figure of St. Lawrence and on the right presumably St. Stephen . The altar is crowned by an IHS symbol in a halo. The rococo tabernacle dates from 1791. The antependium with reliefs depicting scenes from the Old Testament is dated towards the end of the 18th century.
The sacred blood vessel, a Gothic reliquary from the 1st half of the 14th century, is kept in the northern sacrament niche . It consists of a three-pass foot adorned with tendrils, a stand with spoke mode and a crystal cup with a lid.
On the south wall of the nave, folk paintings depict the Holy Blood miracle and St. Gregory's mass . The Stations of the Cross and the organ are from the 19th century.
literature
- Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia . Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , pp. 171–172.
- Wilhelm Deuer, Johannes Grabmayer: Transromanica. In the footsteps of Romanesque in Carinthia, cultural hikes vol. 1 . Verlag Johannes Heyn, Klagenfurt 2008, ISBN 978-3-7084-0302-1 , p. 38.
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Coordinates: 46 ° 56 ′ 58.9 ″ N , 14 ° 24 ′ 14.2 ″ E