Margaret Church Tschrietes
The branch church of St. Margaretha is a Roman Catholic church in Tschrietes in the cadastral community of Wölfnitz in the market town of Griffen in Carinthia .
The branch church of the parish church Wölfnitz an der Saualpe is in Tschrietes . Tschrietes, mentioned in a document in 1245, is a scattered settlement with 29 inhabitants (2001) at around 1000 m above sea level on a ridge of the Saualpe that slopes towards the northwest . The church was mentioned in documents in 1371 and stands on a hill. In the cemetery wall that surrounds the church, there is a bricked-up, chamfered, Gothic pointed arch portal.
The small Gothic church building - also in relation to the mighty fortified church tower - has a profiled portal with a canopy in the south . There is a light niche in the east wall. The mighty west tower in the line of the north facade has Gothic twin windows and a pyramid helmet on the bell floor. A fragment of a Roman tombstone for residents of the village is walled into the northern outer wall. The nave and the choir of the same width were vaulted in 1887 with a plastered, wooden barrel vault with stitch caps. A belt arch separates the three-bay nave from the single-bay choir with a five-eighth end . A pointed arch portal forms the connection to the tower ground floor.
The high altar from the mid-17th century bears carvings, central a Madonna from 1500 and the Saints Margaret and Stephen of about 1520 in the essay the Saints Margaret and Sebastian around 1500. The side carved figures of Saint Lawrence and selbdritt Anna are from the construction time of the high altar.
There are two side altars from 1720, on the left with the figure of St. Sebastian around 1500, right with the figure of St. Rochus from the 18th century.
There is a compilation of two predellas placed one above the other with four passion tablets and the year 1547 with a representation of the 15 (!) Helpers and the handkerchief carried by two angels. The paintings of the Passion Pictures from 1547 show the Last Supper, the crowning of thorns, the flagellation and the scene of the Mount of Olives and on a narrow wing St. Christopher.
A votive picture is marked 1716. A 19th century picture shows the child murder in Bethlehem .
literature
- Dehio Carinthia 2001 , Tschrietes, municipality of Griffen, Filialkirche hl. Margaretha, pp. 975f.
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Coordinates: 46 ° 46 ′ 24.3 " N , 14 ° 43 ′ 15.2" E