Oberbuch Church (Gmünd in Carinthia)
The church of Oberbuch in the municipality of Gmünd in Carinthia was first mentioned in 1455. It was profaned as a Catholic branch church consecrated to Maria Magdalena . In 1987 the building, which is owned by the Glawischnig-Hofer family, was consecrated again after a complete restoration and has been used as a preaching station by the Evangelical parish of Eisentratten since 1988.
Building
The church is a small probably Romanesque hall building with late Gothic and Baroque changes. The wooden roof turret was only erected in 1996. The church consists of a choir with a 3/8 end, a single nave nave and a pillar vestibule. The end of the choir is bricked up inside and accessible through a door, the front yoke is barrel-vaulted and the nave has a flat roof.
The wall paintings of the church were made around 1470/80. On the west facade Maria Magdalena is depicted with two angels in a keel-arch frame and above the Mother of God with child and the saints Elisabeth and John . Two angels with Veronica's handkerchief can be seen above the pointed arched west portal . On the south facade, next to St. Christopher, a nine-part Passion cycle is depicted, which dates from the second quarter of the 14th century.
literature
- Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia . Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 581.
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Coordinates: 46 ° 54 '22.4 " N , 13 ° 33' 8.3" E