Johanneskirche (Kornat)
The Roman Catholic parish church of Kornat , consecrated to John the Baptist , is visible from afar on a slope at 1032 meters above sea level in Kornat , above Birnbaum in the municipality of Lesachtal .
A church in Kornat was first mentioned in a document in 1376. The choir was consecrated in 1536. In 1738 Kornat was raised to a vicariate . In 1868 a storm destroyed the tower and the church roof. From 1869 the tower was rebuilt and the church was extended by one yoke to the west by master mason Agostino Francisci. During the exterior restoration in 1994, the architectural polychromy of the 16th century was reconstructed.
Building description
The church is a single nave, late Gothic building. The nave and the choir have the same height and width and are under a common roof. The choir with a five-eighth end is supported by simply stepped buttresses . The tower south of the choir has slits in the wall, large pointed arch sound windows and small pointed arch windows in the gable fields and is crowned by a needle helmet. The sacristy extension to the west of the tower was probably built in 1869. The choir has three simple lancet windows with original tracery , the nave has three lancet windows on the north and south sides. On the west facade there is a profiled, neo-Gothic pointed arch portal, above two high lancet windows, which are walled up in the lower third, and a small pointed arch window in the gable field.
The nave consists of three original oblong yokes and a square west yoke, which are connected by a retracted pointed arch. The west yoke has a ribbed star and is divided by the powerful self-supporting music gallery. In the eastern nave bays, a star rib vault rests on fluted wall pillars with semicircular templates. A recessed, grooved, pointed triumphal arch connects the nave and the single -bay choir. A ribbed vault rises above the choir on semicircular, partly canted templates. The square and round keystones in the choir and nave are colored. A beveled pointed arch portal leads from the south wall of the choir into the sacristy . A Gothic lock has been preserved in the sacristy door. The groin vaulted sacristy is two-story and has pointed arched windows.
Facility
Most of the neo-Gothic furnishings in the church were created by Josef Stauder from Innichen in 1878 . The high altar consists of a two-storey tabernacle with two praying angel figures as well as side reliefs depicting the Annunciation and the Visitation of the Virgin . Above that, niches hide the figures of John the Baptist and those of the Prince Apostles Peter and Paul . In conversation narrow the statue of is the Archangel Michael . Josef Renn from Munich created the altar figures before 1878.
The left side altar bears a Sacred Heart statue created by Josef Bayra before 1878 . The heads of the four evangelists are depicted on the pulpit . The baptismal font shows scenes of the baptism of Jesus on the top . The neo-Gothic Stations of the Cross with carved scenes was created in 1906. The church also features neo-Gothic sculptures of a Madonna and a group of guardian angels as well as an oil painting with the teaching of Mary from the first half of the 19th century.
The original main altar of the church was transferred to Dellach in the Gailtal .
literature
- Georg Dehio (first), Ernst Bacher u. a. (Ed.): Carinthia ( The Art Monuments of Austria ). Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 414f.
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Coordinates: 46 ° 41 ′ 12.5 ″ N , 12 ° 53 ′ 18.4 ″ E