Karner (Our Lady)
The Karner (also: Original Chapel ) in Unserfrau in Lower Austria is located at the cemetery south of the parish church of the Birth of Mary . It was built towards the end of the 12th century. From 1783–1843 it served as a crypt chapel for the Fürstenberg family .
The building consists of a Romanesque apse room with a saddle roof over a baroque cornice and a barrel-vaulted crypt basement. Inside there is a two-bay , sanded groin vault , two pointed arch windows on the south side and a bricked-up tracery window with a three-pass arch in the drawn-in semicircular apse . The baroque porch with access to the crypt dates from the second half of the 18th century. This has flat arch portals and an attic with spherical pyramids.
The uniform wall painting of the chapel room dates from around 1520 and was uncovered again in 1962. The vault and wall are sanded down by fleshy tendrils and decorated in the base zone with painted cloth hangings. Scenes can be seen on the walls: in the west the Last Judgment , in the north miraculous healing and exorcism by a holy bishop; in the east above the apse arch a Vera icon and to the side the Saints Dionysius and Michael ; in the south the Saints Aegidius , Antonius Eremita , Rochus and Peter at the gate of heaven. In the apse Christ and the apostles on the Mount of Olives are depicted. There are also traces of fire and the presumably Protestant inscription GGG 1571 . In the vaults, David , Isaiah , Daniel and Jeremiah are shown growing out of tendrils. In the middle is a vaulted Sorrows -Bildnis.
literature
- DEHIO Lower Austria north of the Danube . Berger, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-85028-395-3 , pp. 1193f.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Our Lady of the Virgin Mary pilgrimage church. In: RiS Kommunal. Retrieved March 29, 2012 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 43 '24.7 " N , 14 ° 53' 54.2" E