Parish church Bad Kleinkirchheim
The Roman Catholic parish church Bad Kleinkirchheim is dedicated to St. Ulrich . The church in Bad Kleinkirchheim was first mentioned in a document in 1166 and renovated in 1743 after a fire.
Building description
The church is a Romanesque - Gothic building with baroque alterations. It consists of a four-axle nave with a high pitched roof and a low, retracted choir with a three-eighth end. The facades are structured by delicate pilasters . The windows and the west portal are from the Baroque, the pointed arch north portal from the Gothic. The tower on the north side, built in 1837, is crowned by an onion helmet. The oldest bell dates from the 13th century, another bell was cast by Rupert Dringer in 1664.
In the broadly proportioned long hall house, an undivided barrel arches over narrow cornices. The retracted triumphal arch is structured by pilasters with entablature . Painted pilasters decorate the square choir. From the north wall of the choir, an iron-studded door with late Gothic pointed arches leads to the sacristy on the tower ground floor. The painting in the flat dome of the choir from 1782 shows the transfiguration of St. Ulrich. The wall paintings in the choir, above the triumphal arch and in the nave were created by Jonas Ranter 1926–1928. In the nave are Rocaillemedaillons scenes from the legend of St. Ulrich and the battle on the Lechfeld . The painting of St. Joseph with Baby Jesus from the beginning of the 19th century on the north wall of the choir was uncovered in 1988. On the south wall of the nave there is a baroque fresco from 1768 depicting Christ on the Mount of Olives . The parapet of the west gallery was painted with saints using the grisaille technique in the 18th century .
Facility
The high altar shows St. Ulrich on the central picture and a Madonna with Child Jesus and St. John the Child and carries the carved figures of St. John Nepomuk and Franz Xavier from the first quarter of the 18th century above the sacrificial passage portals . The two side altars, the pulpit and the organ case also date from this period. The pictures on the side altars show John the Baptist and Ignatius von Loyola on the left and Saints Erasmus and Leonhard on the right . A crucifixion group from the first quarter of the 18th century is attached to the south wall of the nave . Two priest tombstones from 1718 and 1604 are walled in on the north wall of the nave.
literature
- Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia . Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 37.
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Coordinates: 46 ° 48 ′ 53.6 " N , 13 ° 47 ′ 53.7" E