Parish church Feistritz an der Drau
The parish church Feistritz an der Drau is located in the village of Feistritz an der Drau in the market town of Paternion in the Villach-Land district in Carinthia . The Roman Catholic parish church , consecrated to St. George , belongs to the Deanery Spittal an der Drau in the diocese of Gurk-Klagenfurt . The church and the cemetery are under monument protection ( list entry ).
history
A church was documented in 1169. The current church was built in the late 15th century. In 1954 the church was restored. In 1999 frescoes were uncovered during an interior restoration.
architecture
The four-storey west tower has round-arched sound openings and has a baroque onion helmet with a small lantern over segmented gables with clocks. The tower ground floor has three pointed arch portals. The nave with a southern extension has baroque windows. The two-bay choir with a five -eighth end has double stepped buttresses and at the end a newly glazed pointed arch window. To the north of the choir is a chapel and south of the sacristy.
On the east facade there is a fresco of Christ flanked by several saints.
The three-bay nave can be seen under a rosette-forming looping rib vault by Bartlmä Vierthaler , signed and dated BV 1521 on the west wall of the nave. The vault with heraldic keystones rests on partly grooved templates and services. To the north of the nave is a late Gothic pointed arch, fluted on both sides, as a passage to the chapel. There is a small extension with a groin vault south of the western yoke. The west gallery with a three-part keel-arch arcade shows rich tracery on the wooden parapet. In the lower view of the gallery there is an astrib vault, intertwined into a rosette, on semicircular templates decorated with notch-cut patterns. To the north under the gallery there is a late Gothic brick staircase.
The pointed arched fluted triumphal arch to the choir carries a template with a lower core in the arch. The two-bay choir with a five-eighth closure has a star rib vault on consoles and with round keystones and the keystone representation of St. George with horse and kite. In 1999, late baroque vault decorations were uncovered, an angel carrying the arm of Christ , the resurrection of Christ and the ascension of Christ , a representation of the three theological virtues, in the vaulted area of the north chapel a Renaissance evangelist symbol with the eagle of John .
The northern sacristy portal has a straight lintel and an iron-studded door, next to it there is a baroque sacrament niche.
The two-bay north chapel with a three-eighth closure has a ribbed vault with stitch caps on small consoles. A console shows a coat of arms and a coat of arms keystone.
An ossuary was found under the chancel in 1961 , the entrance to the outside at the end of the choir is walled up.
Ribbed vault of the nave
West gallery
Vault of the choir
Vault of the north chapel
Facility
The baroque high altar, created by Oswald Gredischnig in 1782, fills the apse of the choir. He is a hexastyle shrine -Altar with gable blasted open and sacrifice. The sculptures are by Friedrich Malsiner, the paintings by Josef Aicher. The figure of St. George on horseback as a dragon slayer. Saints Peter on the left and Paul on the right are assistant figures above the sacrificial passage portals . In the essay, a group of figures represents the coronation of Mary ; above are angels, the middle angel with a cross. Painted putti in the vault continue the altar upwards, as it were. There is a late baroque cross on the cafeteria.
The side altars were transferred here from the broken church in Feffernitz. In the shrine of the baroque altar on the left, the Altar of Mary, there is a Mary and child carved by Conrad Campidell in 1951. In the tondo of the essay, St. Barbara pictured. The leaf on the right altar shows St. Joseph leading the boy Jesus. In the top picture is St. Florian shown. In the cafeteria there is a figure of Maria with a child.
Further furnishings include a Gothic baptismal font with a newer bronze lid, paintings of the Stations of the Cross and a painting of the Coronation of Mary.
Mary Altar
Altar in the north chapel
Baptismal font
Coronation of Mary
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Carinthia 2001 . Feistritz an der Drau, parish church hl. George. Pp. 119-120.
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Coordinates: 46 ° 42 ′ 14.2 " N , 13 ° 39 ′ 40.9" E