Kalvarienbergkapelle (Millstatt)
The Calvary Chapel is a high above Millstatt situated baroque construction.
description
The vestibule, which is open to the front, stands on wooden supports. At the back of the chapel are the fresco depictions of the Descent from the Cross and a Pietà with two life-size guards in Landsknecht and Legionnaire's costumes in the side niches, painted around 1700 by Balthasar Klenkh from Spittal an der Drau . The ceiling of the main room is painted with baroque angels in medallions and fruit hangings.
On the altar wall in front of a painted landscape is a carved crucifixion group with Mary , John and the two thieves . The sacrificial portals on both sides of the altar lead to the chapel of the Holy Sepulcher behind . The life-size figure of Christ's body, created around 1700, lies in a rock niche .
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. 548.
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Coordinates: 46 ° 48 ′ 23.6 " N , 13 ° 34 ′ 31.7" E