Parish church Berg im Drautal
The Roman Catholic parish church in Berg im Drautal is dedicated to the birth of Mary. It stands northwest above the village of Berg im Drautal and is surrounded by a cemetery with a Karner. A covered staircase leads to the church from the southeast. The parish also has a branch church of St. Athanasius .
The church, first mentioned in 1267, was founded by the archbishopric of Salzburg , which formerly comprised a very large parish and was a richly endowed parish of the Salzburg cathedral chapter .
Building description
The church, first mentioned in 1267, is a late Romanesque building. In the second half of the 15th century it was converted into a fortified church , the nave and the tower were changed. The choir has been preserved in its late Romanesque form outside and inside. It consists of a front yoke and a lower, drawn-in semicircular apse with a round arch frieze. The church tower, marked 1501 on the sound grille window, stands on the north side of the choir. In the lower part it has slits in the wall, domed Romanesque arched windows with central columns and at the top late Gothic pointed arch sound windows and is crowned by a slender pointed gable helmet. The three-bay nave is wider and significantly higher than the choir. The roof approach is higher on the north side of the slope than on the south side. The battlements in the attic as well as key notches and sunk notch windows on the north wall of the nave have been preserved from the fortified church . On the south side, the nave is supported by double-stepped buttresses , on the west side by braces placed over a corner. The country house has three high lancet windows on the south wall . There is a single arched side portal on the south wall of the choir and a pointed arched profiled side portal on the south wall of the nave. A baroque entrance leads to the organ gallery from the north side . The Romanesque step portal on the west facade has a garment of columns with cube capitals . In the tympanum , the fresco drawing from the end of the 13th century shows an enthroned Madonna and Child, flanked on the left by a crowned martyr and a kneeling male donor figure, on the right by a holy virgin and a kneeling donor. To the right of the west portal is a fresco of a crucifixion group from the 14th century. The Christophorus fresco from the first half of the 15th century on the south wall of the nave is fragmented and damaged. The tombstones of Joseph Ignatius Kastl (1733), Ulrich Mayerl (1607), Hans Gänsler (1589) and the coat of arms of Lucia von Ungnad-Weispriach (1444) are attached to the west wall. The gravestones of the painter and sculptor Jakob Kreißneggers (1817) and his son Stephan (1877) can be found on the south wall.
A late Gothic star rib vault rises above the three-bay nave . The nave is divided into three naves by two octagonal pillars. The two eastern bays are vaulted with a single star that formerly rested from a central support that was removed in 1851. The vault is painted in the spandrels with leaves and flowers from the end of the 15th century. On the lower keystones are the half-figures of the twelve Acts displayed on the smaller square keystones crest. The ribs of the vault end in brackets or in a profiled wall pillar on the south wall. The three-axis late Gothic organ loft with a round arched arcade in the central part is arched under star ribs. The mechanical grinding organ was made by Barthelmä Herbiger in 1842.
A round arched triumphal arch, drawn far down, connects the nave with the choir. A cross vault with ribbon ribs rises above consoles in the choir. The choir bay and the vaulted apse are separated by a wide belt arch . While the choir has Romanesque arched windows in the apse , the three-part arched window with columns in front of the dividing wall webs on the south wall of the choir is of neo-Romanesque origin. A straight lintel portal leads into the sacristy on the tower ground floor.
Murals
The preliminary drawing of the Coronation of Mary from the end of the 13th century, now attached to the north side of the nave , was originally on the southern triumphal arch wall behind the side altar. It was removed and transferred here. The choir and the apse were originally fully furnished with paintings from around 1300, which were uncovered in 1960–1965. Fragments of a childhood story and the Passion of Christ have been preserved in the upper part of the north and south walls of the choir square. On the north side the Judas kiss , the flagellation and the carrying of the cross can be seen and on the south side the birth of Christ, the adoration of the kings , the resurrection of Christ and a statue of St. Erasmus can be seen. The lamb of God and symbols of the evangelists are depicted in the vault . Eight busts of prophets are depicted in stylized arcades on the belt arch between the choir square and apse. In the vault of the apse, a pantocrator is enthroned in a mandorla , which is flanked by two cherubim . The remains of the twelve apostles can be seen between the apse windows.
Facility
The high altar was put together using older parts. The stone Madonna from the beginning of the 15th century in the central niche is surrounded by a baroque angel halo. This statue is considered to be the highest quality example of a “beautiful Madonna” in Carinthia and is probably the work of a Salzburg artist. The two side figures of Saints Anna and Joachim were created by Hans Patterer around 1740. On the door of the tabernacle from St. Athanas a crucifixion by Josef Ferdinand Fromiller is depicted, the side wings depict the apostles Peter and Paul .
The two side altars were also transferred here on St. Athanas. The left columnar altar from the beginning of the 18th century bears a statue of the Sacred Heart and shows Saint Erasmus in the upper picture.
The right side altar with a two-storey aedicula above a low base was created in the Kreißenegger workshop in the first half of the 18th century. The central niche contains a carved Trinity group . The side figures show Christ and Peter handing over the keys. The upper picture shows St. Helena with the found cross and a bishop. The upper picture is flanked by the statues of St. Nicholas and another bishop.
The pulpit was created in 1780. The personified representations of the Christian virtues of faith, love, and hope sit on beads on the pulpit . On the reliefs between the statues the Good Shepherd and the stoning of St. Stephen are depicted. The sound cover bears the statues of the four evangelists and is crowned by the figure of Moses with the tablets of the law . An eye of God is attached to the bottom of the sound cover .
The crucifix above the triumphal arch was carved in 1928 by Hans Breitegger in the late Gothic style. The carved apostle luster comes from the early 18th century, the Stations of the Cross from the late Baroque. On the south wall of the nave are the gravestones of Joseph von Sezenegg (1746) and Georg Oswald von Mulleth (1685).
Karner
The Karner stands northeast next to the church and is dedicated to St. Michael . The two-storey Romanesque building with a semicircular apse in the east has buttress-like wall reinforcements. The ossuary is located in the basement and the chapel with a six-part ribbed vault is on the upper floor. The frescoes show a strong South Tyrolean influence and are labeled 1428. The scene of the Annunciation is painted in the eastern vaulted cap, and Christ as the judge of the world in the western one . In the remaining vaults the twelve apostles are represented in groups of three, above them angels with the tools of the Passion . The conclusion is a keystone with a Lamb of God. On the south wall, the Archangel Michael can be seen under the Apostle Matthias . The mural on the outer wall shows Christ on the Mount of Olives .
literature
- Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia . Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , pp. 50–53.
- Gottfried Biedermann, Karin Leitner: Gothic in Carinthia - With photos by Wim van der Kallen. Carinthia Verlag, Klagenfurt 2001, ISBN 3-85378-521-2 , p. 192.
- Barbara Kienzl : The baroque pulpits in Carinthia. Verlag des Kärntner Landesarchivs, Klagenfurt 1986, ISBN 3-900531-16-1 , p. 112.
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Coordinates: 46 ° 44 '52.3 " N , 13 ° 8' 0.7" E