Monastery Church (St. Veit an der Glan)
The former monastery church of Our Lady stands outside the old town of St. Veit an der Glan, southwest of the former citizens' hospital . It was the church of the monastery attached to the south. It is consecrated to Mary, Our Lady . Today the church is a branch of the parish of St. Vitus .
history
The church was first mentioned in documents in 1323 as the church of the Clarissin Monastery , which had been founded by Konrad von Auffenstein and his wife. Around 1360 Anna von Auffenstein was abbess. In 1383 the Lords of Kraig founded a chaplaincy. In 1542 the monastery became a hospital for the poor. In 1622 Jesuits were supposed to take over the building, which had been deserted by the Reformation . However, they did without the neglected building. In 1640 the Franciscans took over the monastery and church. The convent buildings were rebuilt from 1640 to 1648. In 1786 Emperor Joseph II closed the monastery with 25 fathers. In 1829 a fire damaged the monastery building. In 1863 the east wing of the convent was demolished and the rest was converted into a school. Of the former monastery building, only the west wing of the Kreuzhof, which was renovated between 1640 and 1648, with two closed arcades and the remains of the southern wing are preserved. Today it serves as a farm building.
Building description
The elongated building is an early Gothic hall church with massive, 2-3-fold stepped buttresses and a slightly raised choir. The slender tower with ogival sound openings and a pressed Biedermeier hood is the earliest tower of an Austrian mendicant church . The entrance portals on the north side with broadly profiled walls have a Christ head or remains of paintings in the tympanum . On the south side of the choir you can see the vault of the former crypt chapel of the Kraiger Knights. The sundial is marked 1751.
The six-bay nave has a ribbed vault over high, console-like spur approaches. The reliefs of the flat keystones depict the Lamb of God , the Blessing Hand, a lion, a pelican, a rosette and the sun disk. The masonry, two-axis gallery occupies the western yoke and is vaulted under by deeply drawn cross ribs. The organ , built by Franz Knoller in 1731, was probably rebuilt by Joachim Prugger in 1777 and restored in 1970. The organ is the rare case of a prospectus combined from a main and parapet positive.
The windows in the nave were partly baroque and partly walled up.
The choir ends in a four-sixth note. The two and three-part choir windows are equipped with tracery . On the south wall of the choir there are three round relief stones referring to the church foundation with the Lamb of God, owls, the heraldic animals of the Auffensteiner and an inscription marked 1323. The painted remains of a poem with five different coats of arms from the 14th century on the northern inclined wall of the choir probably comes from an epitaph .
Facility
The high altar from 1734 with four columns and additional pilasters comes from Johann Pacher with a version by Josef Anton Schwämbacher (1739). The middle picture from the beginning of the 19th century shows Maria Immaculata . On the side are the statues of Saints Zacharias , Elisabeth and Joseph on the left and Joachim , Anna and John the Baptist on the right. The top picture of the Annunciation from the beginning of the 19th century is flanked by the figures of Saints Laurentius and Antonius on the left and Francis and Leonhard on the right. The top of the altar is a cross in a halo and the side figures of Saints Leopold and Heinrich .
The altar on the south side of the choir was donated by Johannes Zacharias Stoitmann in 1754. At the altar are the statues of Saints John Nepomuk , Anthony of Padua and Bonaventure .
The holy water basin stands on a late Gothic foot, which is marked with a master's mark or house mark.
Side chapels
The south side of the nave is open with arched arcades to the baroque chapel extensions built between 1666 and 1669. The three chapels with groin vaults and sparse wall structuring were donated as burial places.
In the eastern chapel there is an altar from 1666. It consists of an aedicula with a staggered double column position over a small base and a split segment gable with a small aedicule as a top. The twisted column shafts are decorated with vine tendrils, the base and the gable with cartilage . The altarpiece with the Entombment of Christ from the end of the 17th century was donated by Andreas Talman von Tallheimb.
The altar in the middle chapel from 1667 was donated by the merchant Johann Preyss de Sotto and is similar in structure and decor to the altar in the eastern chapel. The altarpiece with the Annunciation dates from the 18th century and comes from the Heiligenkreuz Church in Villach . The side figures of Saints Ottilie and Barbara were created in the 18th century, the top figures in the 17th century.
The western side chapel extends over two bays and was donated as a crypt chapel by Steinkellner von Kellerstein. The altar was held in 1669 by Brother Albert Stumph. It consists of an aedicule with three pillars above a base and a blown triangular gable with a small aedicule with staggered double columns as an attachment. The altar bears a crucifixion group created by Johann Georg Hittinger around 1780 . The top picture of God the Father is flanked by the figures of the holy deacons Stephen and Laurentius.
Altar of the east side chapel
Altar of the middle side chapel
Funerary monuments
On the north wall of the nave are the coat of arms grave slab of Georg Vorgt (1656) and an inscription stone (1663). In the eastern chapel, the Roman epitaph for Nemetomarus serves as the cover for the crypt of Andreas Talman created in 1663. The two powerful, gable-crowned heraldic grave plates on consoles with lion paws for Hieronymus Söll (1582) and Maria von Teutenhoffen (1580) were transferred here from the parish church. In front of the entrance, fragments of the tumba cover from the tomb of Konrad von Kraig from the end of the 14th century can be seen. The greater part of this tumba is in the rectory near the town parish church. There is also the tombstone of the city judge Christof Schreml († 1442), tombstones made around 1300, fragments of Roman stones and medieval workpieces.
literature
- Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia . Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 844 ff.
- Siegfried Hartwagner: Austrian Art Monograph Volume VIII: Carinthia. The St. Veit an der Glan district . Verlag St. Peter, Salzburg 1977, ISBN 3-900173-22-2 , p. 211 ff.
- Gottfried Biedermann and Karin Leitner: Gothic in Carinthia - With photos by Wim van der Kallen. Carinthia Verlag, Klagenfurt 2001, ISBN 3-85378-521-2 , p. 32 ff.
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Coordinates: 46 ° 45 ′ 53 ″ N , 14 ° 21 ′ 16.6 ″ E