Petronilla Chapel (Großdorf)
The Petronilla Chapel is a Roman Catholic chapel in the Großdorf district of the municipality of Kals am Großglockner . The chapel is dedicated to the martyr Petronilla and one of the 13 listed objects of the Kals am Großglockner ( list entry ).
location
The Petronillakapelle located in the center of the fraction Großdorf in Kals Valley . It is located at the end of Kalser Straße (L 26) and is surrounded by a small green area.
history
The Petronilla Chapel goes back to a baroque chapel that was located at the Peternalmessner house in Großdorf. In 1676 the chapel was mentioned in a visitation protocol, around 1735 it also received a measurement license and in 1795 a way of the cross. In 1898 the baroque chapel was demolished in favor of a new building that was built in the center of Großdorf. The chapel was restored in 1962 and the interior was redesigned.
Building
The chapel in Großdorf consists of a three-bay nave with a gable roof, a retracted, height-staggered choir with a hipped gable roof, a massive tower with a truncated tent roof attached to the north and crowned by a ball, cross and weather valve, and a square sacristy with a hipped roof on the south side. The facades were plastered white and accentuated with a yellow frame structure. The entrance to the chapel is accessed through a grooved pointed arch portal that can be reached via two steps, above which there is a round and a small pointed arch window. The long walls of the chapel are pierced by a tall, narrow pointed arch window.
The interior of the three-bay chapel nave has a stitch cap barrel vault and a simple pilaster structure . Above the entrance there is a gallery resting on columns. The transition from the chapel nave to the choir, which has been raised by one step, is marked by a high, pointed arched triumphal arch, the nave and choir were also optically separated from each other by gray or reddish stone tiles. The vault of the nave was decorated by Wolfram Köberl in 1962 with a ceiling painting of St. Petronilla, which depicts the reception of communion and the death of the martyr.
The altar from 1900 was built according to plans by Father Johannes M. Reiter. It consists of a box canteen with a cross and gothic carved decoration and a wooden, gray-framed structure with gothic detail shapes. The altarpiece is a Mariahilf picture of the Cranach type from the first half of the 18th century, which is flanked by figures of St. Peter (left) and Paul (right) from the end of the 19th century. In the extract there is also a relief of St. Petronilla. In front of the original altar is a wooden folk altar , which also has a Gothic carved decoration.
While the choir stalls are from the construction period, the prayer chairs were newly created during the renovation. The Way of the Cross by Wolfram Köberl also dates from the time of the redesign . Of the sculptures and paintings in the church , the painting Christ on the Cross, created in 1898 by Albin Egger-Lienz and donated by the artist to the Kals community, is of particular importance.
literature
- Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.): The art monuments of the political district of Lienz. Part III: Iseltal, Defereggental, Kalsertal, Virgental. (Austrian Art Topography, Volume LVII). Verlag Berger, Horn 2007, ISBN 978-3-85028-448-6
- Siegmund Kurzthaler: History - Art - Culture. Encounters in the Hohe Tauern National Park region. Ed. Löwenzahn, Innsbruck 1997, ISBN 3-7066-2148-7 .
Coordinates: 47 ° 0 ′ 29.6 ″ N , 12 ° 38 ′ 17.3 ″ E