Parish church Feistritz ob Grades
The Roman Catholic parish church Feistritz ob Grades is located in Feistritz in the Metnitz municipality at an altitude of 1089 meters in the Mödringer Mountains between the Metnitztal and the Gurktal . The parish church of St. Martin belongs to the Deanery Friesach in the diocese of Gurk-Klagenfurt . The church and the cemetery are under monument protection .
history
The church, which was first mentioned between 1090 and 1106, has had parish law since 1131.
Building description
The church consists of a probably Romanesque nave, a late Gothic choir from the first half of the 16th century, a baroque vestibule and a mighty late Gothic tower with a curved pointed spire and ogival sound openings on the north side of the choir. The Christophorus fresco on the south side of the nave was created around 1480/90. The two sundials are believed to date from the 15th and 16th centuries. Century. The entrance hall has a crosswise pointed barrel vault with stitch caps . The church is entered through a Gothic arched portal with a slight arched profile.
The flat ceiling of the nave is fitted with stucco frames from the second half of the 18th century. The resurrection of Christ, Christ as the Good Shepherd and the four church fathers are depicted in the stucco frame . In the west of the nave the wooden organ gallery stands on two baluster supports. A profiled ogival triumphal arch connecting the nave with the einjochigen choir with five-eighth circuit and two-lane Maßwerksfenstern . In the choir a star vault rests on circular services . On the east wall there is a painted coat of arms marked 1537 with maker's mark. A keel arch portal from 1524 with an iron-studded door leads into the star-vaulted sacristy on the tower ground floor. The barred sacrament house set over a corner jumps out of the north wall of the choir, underneath is a console figurine with a book.
Facility
The baroque high altar was made by Johann Nischlwizer in 1767. Saint Martin in the central niche is flanked by the figures of Saints Wolfgang and Nicholas on the inside and those of Saints Florian and Sebastian on the outside . The group of figures in the essay shows the coronation of Mary . On the side of the circular services are the console figures of the Jesuit saints Franz Xavier and Ignatius von Loyola from 1757.
The left side altar consists of an aedicule over a small base and a split segment gable with a small aedicule as an attachment. The side ears are decorated with cartilage , the twisted columns with vine leaves. The altar bears a statue of a Mother of God with a child and St. George in the top .
The right side altar is built similarly and contains the statue of Anthony of Padua and above that of the risen Christ.
The rectangular pulpit from the end of the 17th century stands on a column with a Corinthian capital . A missionary arm with a crucifix is attached to the pulpit. The pictures on the pulpit parapet depict the four evangelists .
Other furnishings include the epitaph of Vicar Bernhard David Pichler from 1685, a carved angel chandelier from the mid-19th century and the Stations of the Cross on the organ railing.
Karner
The Gothic charnel south of the church dates from the 14th century. The hexagonal building with a semicircular apse and arched portal is covered by a pointed shingle roof. Inside it has a stenciled flat ceiling from around 1500. In 1958/1960 the wall paintings made in al secco in the middle of the 14th century were exposed. The upper layers of paint are partly lost. The Last Judgment is depicted on the east wall above . The Man of Sorrows with adoring angels in the vault of the window niche shows a mixture of the Gregorian Man of Sorrows (with a head sunk on his shoulder) with a tendency to life (open eyes and showing wounds), which is characteristic of the Nordic countries . Below that, in the reveals of the window niche, the coronation of Mary and the apparition of the Lord can be seen. The Annunciation to Mary is depicted on the southeast wall . A passion cycle begins in the upper zone of this wall and continues clockwise to the northeast wall. The lower zone of the three west walls shows scenes from the life of St. Catherine . The victims of Cain and Abel can be found in the reveal of the southwest window. The remaining window reveals and the lower zone of the south-east wall are filled with individual figures of saints.
literature
- Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia . Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 124.
- Barbara Kienzl : The baroque pulpits in Carinthia. Verlag des Kärntner Landesarchiv, Klagenfurt 1986, ISBN 3-900531-16-1 , p. 273.
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Coordinates: 46 ° 57 ′ 5.6 " N , 14 ° 15 ′ 23.5" E