Wolfsberg Capuchin Church
The former Capuchin Church in Wolfsberg is dedicated to the feast of the Assumption of Mary. Today it is a rectorate church of the Roman Catholic parish of St. Markus .
history
In 1623 the Capuchins settled in Wolfsberg and built the church and the monastery between 1634 and 1638. The building complex was renewed after the fire of 1777. After the Capuchins left the city in 2007, the Benedictines of St. Paul Abbey in Lavanttal took over the church and monastery.
description
The simple church is equipped with barrel vaults in the nave and in the retracted chancel . Behind the chancel there is a prayer choir. On the north side of the church is a Lourdes grotto and a two-bay side chapel, which is divided into a confessional and a devotional chapel by a wooden wall.
The historicizing high altar was made by the Rungaldier art workshop in Val Gardena in 1916 . The pictures of the high altar painted by Gregor Lederwasch IV of the Lederwasch family of painters show the Assumption of Mary in the middle, St. Fidelis of Sigmaringen on the left and St. Joseph of Leonisse on the right. Wooden statues of Saints Joseph and Anthony of Padua are placed on the triumphal arch walls . In the side chapel are the statues of Saints Francis and Conrad from Altötting and the statue of Judas Thaddäus by the Carinthian artist Campidell. On the north wall of the nave is a grave plaque for Maria Ziegler, who died in 1756.
literature
- Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia. Revised edition, 3rd, expanded and improved edition, edited by Gabriele Russwurm-Biró. Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 1083.
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Coordinates: 46 ° 50 ′ 11.2 " N , 14 ° 50 ′ 38.9" E