Bleiburg parish church
The Roman Catholic parish church in Bleiburg is consecrated to Saints Peter and Paul ( Peter and Paul , June 29). In addition to the parish church, the parish also includes the subsidiary churches Aich / Dob , Einersdorf / Nonča vas , Heiligengrab / Humec , Oberloibach / Zgornje Libuče , St. Margarethen am Kömmel / Šmarjeta, St. Georgen / Šentjur and Unterloibach / Spodnje Libuče .
history
Originally there was a chapel dedicated to St. Paul in Bleiburg. A church in Bleiburg is first mentioned in 1241. The parish seat was St. Michael ob Bleiburg. In 1332/1335 the Counts Auffenstein built a church, which was badly damaged during the siege of Bleiburg in 1368. In 1461 Bleiburg received its own pastoral care. Before the Turkish threat - Turks invaded Carinthia in 1473, 1476 and 1478 - the pastor of St. Michael ob Bleiburg sought protection in the better protected Bleiburg. Even after that a permanent vicar remained in Bleiburg, who was partly taken care of by the parish of St. Michael.
Building
The two-aisled church with a north aisle is a late Gothic building from the 15th century or the beginning of the 16th century. The west facade with a neo - Gothic two - axis arcade porch dates from the 19th century. The church walls are supported on the choirs and the nave by three-tier buttresses . The tower with twin windows and an onion helmet is on the south side of the choir. To the east of this there is an entrance hall to the choir with a shoulder arch portal and a sacristy extension . Another shoulder arch portal is located on the south side of the nave. Two aristocratic tombstones from the end of the 18th century are walled in on the outside wall of the church. On the north side there is the tombstone of a “city trader” from 1705. An epitaph for Margarete Ratsburger from 1612 can be found on a buttress .
In the four-bay main nave, a star rib vault rises above polygonal wall pillars with circular services . The two-axis, three-bay west gallery is arched under with star ribs, which are based on bundled round services. The northern yokes are intercepted by the wall at the top. The tracery on the gallery parapet is painted. A broad, almost round arched triumphal arch connects the main nave with the main choir, designated 1512 at the end of the choir. Above this equally wide, four-bay choir with a three-eighth end, a ribbed vault spans on pillars with round services. In the third yoke an arch opens the south wall of the choir to the older cross-ribbed vestibule. In this there are two corrugated stone portals, the western one leads to the tower ground floor, the eastern one to the sacristy . In the north aisle a ribbed vault rests on circular services. A single-axis, single-yoke gallery is set in the western. The two-bay side choir with a three-eighth end is vaulted with mesh ribs and opened to the main choir by a partition arch .
The two glass paintings in the main choir end windows depicting Saints Barbara and Katharina were made in the Innsbruck glass painting establishment in 1884 . Karel Vouk designed six nave windows with motifs from the life of St. Hemma . In the second yoke of the main choir, a painted epitaph with a donor kneeling in front of the crucifix from 1580 can be seen. The Coronation of Mary in the fourth choir bay was painted in 1680.
Facility
The high altar from the second half of the 18th century was originally installed in the parish church of Irschen . In Bleiburg it was equipped with various parts that did not originally belong to it. The central niche contains a statue of the Sacred Heart from the 19th century. The figures of the apostles Peter and Paul stand on the side above the sacrificial passage portals . The top picture shows the coronation of Mary.
The neo-Gothic Antonius altar in the north side choir was created in 1907. The statue of Anthony of Padua is flanked by Saints Ursula and Hildegard .
The Marien altar from the second half of the 18th century stands on the column between the two nave aisles and the two choirs. In the niche there is a figure of the Madonna from the 19th century. A carved figure of St. Florian forms the top .
The baroque pulpit was created around 1780. The statues of the four evangelists sit in front of the railing of the basket . Putti with symbols of Christian virtues sit on the sound cover . A plastic dove of the Holy Spirit is attached to the underside of the sound cover . Further furnishings in the nave include paintings of the Way of the Cross (19th century).
In the south vestibule there is a carved Baroque crucifixion group from the first half of the 18th century, a console statue of St. Nicholas from the third quarter of the 18th century and a votive image from the 19th century in thanks to a fire that was averted from the church .
The neo-Gothic prayer benches and the confessionals with figuratively etched glazing were made by Franz Filac in 1910.
The organ from 1911 is the work of Matthäus Mauracher II from Salzburg and was restored in 2002 by the organ builder Ottitsch from Ferlach .
A bell was cast by Matthias Landsmann in 1678.
Anthony Altar
The altar of Mary
the pulpit
Way of the Cross painting
Console statue of St. Nicholas
Votive picture: St. Florian
literature
- Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia . Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 56 f.
- Breda Vilhar and Milan Piko: "The sacred monuments of the Bleiburg deanery / Cerkvena likovna dediščina v dekaniji Pliberk". Slovenski narodopisni inštitut, Klagenfurt 2006, ISBN 3-7086-0206-4 , pp. 14-16.
- Gottfried Biedermann and Karin Leitner: Gothic in Carinthia - With photos by Wim van der Kallen. Carinthia Verlag, Klagenfurt 2001, ISBN 3-85378-521-2 , p. 64 f.
- Barbara Kienzl : The baroque pulpits in Carinthia. Verlag des Kärntner Landesarchivs, Klagenfurt 1986, ISBN 3-900531-16-1 , p. 261 f.
- Wilhelm Deuer: Jauntaler Kulturwanderungen - An art-historical companion through the Völkermarkt district. Verlag Johannes Heyn, Klagenfurt 2001, ISBN 3-85366-977-8 , p. 82.
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Coordinates: 46 ° 35 ′ 21.3 " N , 14 ° 47 ′ 55.9" E