Laurentiuskirche (St. Lorenzen im Lesachtal)
The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Lorenzen in the Lesachtal is 1128 meters above sea level in the village of the same name in the Lesachtal municipality . The church was first mentioned in a document in 1374. In 1485 a choir consecration took place. In 1594 St. Lorenzen was named as a vicariate .
Building description
The church is a medium-sized, late Gothic complex with a Romanesque core. The tower on the north side of the choir, crowned with a pointed gable helmet, has keyhole notches , in the uppermost section two-part donkey back windows in an overarching frame field with donkey back arch and in the gable field round-arched sound windows. A two-storey, late Baroque chapel extension is attached to the north wall of the nave. The nave and the choir have the same width and height. They are supported on the south side by simply stepped, triangular buttresses over a rectangular base and stand under a common roof. The nave has high, one-piece lancet windows . The choir windows are walled up in the lower part and have the original subdivision with tracery in the upper part . In the upper half of the west wall there is a large round window with a tracery rosette and above it a small pointed arch window. Late Gothic holy water basins are attached to both sides of the pointed arched, profiled west portal. Inside, a slightly recessed, pointed arched, profiled triumphal arch connects the five-bay nave and the choir with a five-eighth end . The star rib vault with round and diamond-shaped keystones rests in the nave on grooved, Gothic wall pillars with round services and in the choir on simple wall pillars. A profiled pointed arch portal leads from the north side of the choir into the sacristy on the tower ground floor. The west gallery with swinging parapets is two-story. The windows were glazed in neo-Gothic style in 1896 .
Murals
In the fields of the nave vault, the four church fathers can be seen in recessed four-passages , in the choir the symbols of the evangelists , the handkerchief of Veronica and the saints Laurentius , Katharina , Sebastian and Florian . The vault paintings date from the end of the 15th century. The late Gothic fresco fragment on the north wall of the choir shows the Lord's Supper under a canopy architecture. The remarkable fresco on the north wall of the nave, the Last Judgment with Christ in the mandorla , was created at the beginning of the 16th century and shows iconographic parallels to the Millstatt World Court of Urban Görtschacher .
Facility
The late baroque high altar with column architecture and protruding side parts was installed in the old parish church in Mallnitz until 1973 . The altar bears the figures of Saint Laurence, Florian and Sebastian from around 1500 in the main zone and above the statues of the Apostle John and Saint Catherine. The top picture shows the coronation of Mary .
A late baroque crucifix hangs over the triumphal arch . The Stations of the Cross created in 1859 Adam Brandstätter. The church also features a half-length figure of Saint Nicholas , the late Baroque sculptures of the Lamentation of Christ , a group of guardian angels and Saints Michael and Valentine . A Lourdes grotto from 1908 is housed in the north side chapel .
literature
- Georg Dehio (first), Ernst Bacher u. a. (Ed.): Carinthia ( The Art Monuments of Austria ). Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 758 f.
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Coordinates: 46 ° 42 ′ 7.8 " N , 12 ° 47 ′ 4.7" E