Parish Church Deutsch-Griffen
The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Jakobus the Elder stands in the municipality of Deutsch-Griffen in Carinthia on a hill southwest of the village. It is surrounded by a cemetery with a formerly fortified late Gothic wall up to 3.8 meters high and connected to the local rectory by a long, covered staircase.
history
In 1043 Hemma von Gurk founded a private band in Deutsch-Griffen . In 1157 the chapel was donated to the Gurk cathedral chapter . Deutsch-Griffen was first mentioned as a parish in 1218.
Building description
The church with a Romanesque core has a Gothic choir closure from the 14th century, which is supported by three-tiered buttresses . The nave was widened to the south in 1697. The presented west tower with a Gothic core was renewed in 1638 and provided with baroque sound openings. An eight-sided, curved pointed helmet crowns the tower. The open vestibule on the tower ground floor has a groin vault . The ogival, chamfered, Gothic west portal has an iron-studded door.
A flat ceiling has been installed in the original nave. The southern extension has a groin vault. The four-axis, two-bay west gallery is arched under the cross ridge and rests partly on Gothic round pillars. The pointed Gothic triumphal arch has a Romanesque warrior cornice on the south side . A Gothic groin vault rises above the choir with a square yoke and five- eighth end. The end of the choir has three Gothic tracery windows . On the south side of the choir there is a window with a Gothic garment and a Romanesque window with a Gothic pane from the 15th century, depicting the head of Christ. From the north side of the choir, a round-arched, chamfered portal with an iron-studded door leads into the groin-vaulted sacristy .
In the western wall have loopholes received. The roofed staircase from the rectory to the church with 178 steps was built in 1755.
The west portal
The south portal
The covered staircase
Murals
The Christophorus painting outside on the south wall of the choir dates from the end of the 14th century. The significance of the frescoes in the interior of the church of Deutsch-Griffen, uncovered in 1928, is that they break with the tradition of the older Villach school . The continuous picture narration is given up, two scenes are put together in one field each and the fields are separated by borders. On the north wall of the choir is a sacrament house painted around a sacrament niche with a man of Sorrows , Mary, John and the two apostles James, including a spiritual founder and angel. To the right of this are the Annunciation , the offering of Melchizedek , the feeding of Elijah , the gathering of the manna , Daniel in the lions' den, the washing of the feet and the Lord's Supper . These frescoes come from Friedrich von Villach and his workshop. They were created around or after 1452. The Gurk cathedral provost Johannes Hinderkircher is a possible donor of the choir frescoes. The poorly preserved paintings from the end of the 14th century in the triumphal arch reveal half-length figures of female saints. The resurrection of Jesus Christ , Ascension , Pentecost are depicted on the northern triumphal arch wall; Christ in limbo is only a remnant. Among them are the saints Helena , George and Catherine of Alexandria next to a holy bishop . These paintings date from the middle of the 15th century. The fragments of the Passion Cycle on the north wall of the nave are dated to the same time . You can still see the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem, the Last Supper and the scene of the Mount of Olives, the rest is covered by the west gallery.
Christophorus fresco on the outside of the south wall of the choir
Lower partial view of the fresco on the northern triumphal arch wall
Upper partial view of the fresco on the northern triumphal arch wall (see text)
Facility
The baroque high altar, made around 1640, is an aedicule altar with a blown segmented gable and a small aedicule between the segments as an attachment. The altar bears the figure of the church patron on the main floor, flanked by St. Nicholas and another holy bishop. In the top there is a figure of St. Joseph from the first half of the 18th century and the archangels Michael and Gabriel on the segments . The altar's tabernacle was built in 1757/1760. A special feature is the single-scene Lent cloth from the last third of the 18th century, with which the altar is draped during Lent. It shows the lamentation of Christ .
The left side altar is an aedical altar with an aedicule with a volute gable as an attachment. The altar panel from 1656 depicts the crucifixion. In the top there is a monstrance between putti, on the side there are the figures of a holy bishop on the left and right of St. Nepomuk .
On the right is the richly decorated rosary altar with a Madonna and intercessory saints, made around 1700, framed by painted medallions in leafy tendrils, which are probably made by Johann Seitlinger from Gurk.
The basket with the depiction of the evangelists in the balustrade has been removed from the former pulpit from 1688 and serves as an ambo . A statue of the Sacred Heart is attached under the former sound cover. The church also features a carved crucifixion group from the 17th century on the south wall of the nave, three late Gothic apostle figures on the gallery parapet, which were created in a Carinthian workshop in the second quarter of the 16th century, and a Madonna from the second half of the 17th century Century.
The crucifixion altar
Crucifixion group on the south wall of the nave
Baptism scene on the lid of the baptismal font
Two stations of the cross
Karner
The Karner in the northeastern cemetery wall is dedicated to St. Oswald. The octagonal, early Gothic building with a tent roof, two three-sided apses and Gothic windows dates from the first half of the 14th century.
The Karner
View into the basement of the Karner
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literature
- Gottfried Biedermann and Karin Leitner: Gothic in Carinthia - With photos by Wim van der Kallen. Carinthia Verlag, Klagenfurt 2001, ISBN 3-85378-521-2 , pp. 172-173.
- Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia . Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , pp. 76, 77.
- Siegfried Hartwagner : Carinthia. The district of St. Veit an der Glan (= Austrian art monograph, Volume VIII). Verlag St. Peter, Salzburg 1977, ISBN 3-900173-22-2 , pp. 34-36
Web links
- Lenten cloth of handles
- Church on the Hemmapilgerwege (PDF; 561 kB)
Coordinates: 46 ° 51 ′ 17.5 " N , 14 ° 4 ′ 25.3" E