Mellitz

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The center of Mellitz
The chapel of St. Ulrich
The chapel inside

Mellitz is a fraction of the municipality of Virgen in East Tyrol. The fraction adjoins the community center in the northeast, the Virgen Dorf fraction and is located on the Mellitzbach . With 89 inhabitants, Mellitz was the smallest fraction in the municipality in 2020.

geography

The Mellitz settlement is grouped along a road that connects the Mellitzweg and the Angerweg of the Virgen-Dorf fraction. The center with the chapel is at a height of 1,295 meters. To the north of the main settlement, the Egger, Stiendl and Sonnberger farms also belong to Mellitz. The Obersonnberg with the Sonnberger farm is at 1,487 meters the highest populated point in Mellitz. The Rabenstein castle ruins are also located in Mellitz.

Chapel of St. Ulrich

A lettering with the words "built 1800" indicates the year the chapel was built, but it was built in place of an older building. The outer facade of the chapel is kept simple and executed without any special structure. There is a slender gable turret on the roof. The floor plan of the chapel is rectangular and has a round apse . The ceiling is supported by a lancet barrel vault . In the painted cartouches of the vault there are depictions of St. Isidore and St. Notburga. The altar dates from around 1800 and looks baroque. However, it has older parts and classical motifs. In the top there is a relief of a mercy seat and figures of worshiping angels. The altarpiece shows an auxiliary image of Maria after Lucas Cranach and is flanked by statues of St. Ulrich and a martyr priest. To the side of the altar are the Gothic figures of St. Peter and St. Paul . They come from a Carinthian workshop and were created around 1520. They correspond to the altar shrine of St. Peter in Panzendorf and probably come from the chapel of the Rabenstein castle ruins. The picture of the poor souls comes from Josef Weiskopf the Younger (1915). Other statues of St. Florian and a hovering guardian angel from the end of the 18th century rest on heavy granite consoles.

literature

Web links

Commons : Mellitz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  • Meinrad Pizzinini: East Tyrol. The Lienz district. His works of art, historical forms of life and settlement. Verlag St. Peter, Salzburg 1974 (Austrian Art Monographs, Vol. VII) ISBN 3-900173-17-6
  1. ↑ Statistics Austria municipality data Virgen, 2001 census