Andreas Church in Lasa
The branch church of St. Andreas is a Roman Catholic church in the district of Laas in the municipality of Kötschach-Mauthen in Carinthia.
The late Gothic church is raised at a fork in the road and is surrounded by a cemetery. It is believed that the cemetery walls were originally built to defend themselves. The church was built between 1510 and 1535 by the builder Bartlmä Firtaler from Innichen .
The church with a four-bay nave with a slightly drawn-in lower choir with 3/8 end has a tower that connects to the north of the choir and contains the groin-vaulted sacristy in the basement. Buttresses, portals and window reveals are made of red Lasa sandstone. On the south wall of the nave is a large St. Christopher fresco, created around 1520 to 1530.
The vault of the choir, made of three rib stars of different shapes , inscription meister partolome firthaler 1516 , is probably older than the nave vault . In the reveal of a choir window is a coat of arms with a double shield of Mandorff and Lodron with the year 1510. There are 13 cup-shaped keystones with painted coats of arms. In the north wall of the choir is a two-sided sacrament house with a foot and a plinth. Richly decorated portal to the sacristy with a keel arched crown with branch ends inscribed in a frame field, with a wooden door with a late Gothic lock and fittings. A stone stairway leads from the north-western choir to the pulpit and to a narrow iron door in the tower.
The nave vault is a remarkably dense network of ribbed stars with three-leaf endings. There are 16 tartschen-shaped keystones with painted coats of arms of the families Payer, Hans von Mandorff and his wife Anna, Weißbriach, Khevenhüller, Gleinz, Söll, Dietrichstein, Lodron, Reich Rasegg, as well as the regional coats of arms of Carinthia , Lower Austria , Gradiska and Tyrol . There is a simple west gallery with wooden parapets, painted with Christ and the Apostles, from the 17th century. On the north side in the easternmost yoke is a small late Gothic wall niche under a window.
The high altar around 1680 bears a central image Marter des St. Andreas by Christoph Brandstätter the Younger from 1834. The upper image of the Trinity and the tabernacle with crucifix around 1600.
There is a late Gothic holy water font with a foot. There are also baroque prayer chairs around 1700. The organ is neo-Gothic. There is a coat of arms grave slab of Balthasar Staudacher from 1568.
literature
- Dehio Carinthia 2001 , Laas, Filialkirche hl. Andreas, p. 436f.
Web links
- Website of the Laas branch church on the website of the Diocese of Gurk
- Federal Monuments Office : Report 132: Laas, Filialkirche hl. Andreas (PDF; 3.6 MB)
Coordinates: 46 ° 41 ′ 37.7 ″ N , 12 ° 59 ′ 13 ″ E