Glantschach parish church
The parish church Glantschach is located in the center of Glantschach in the market town of Liebenfels in the Sankt Veit an der Glan district in Carinthia . The Roman Catholic parish church consecrated to the Apostle Andreas belongs to the deanery of St. Veit an der Glan in the diocese of Gurk-Klagenfurt . The church, the cemetery and the Karner are under monument protection ( list entry ).
history
With the first church foundation document in Carinthia, the church was built and consecrated from 958 to 991. In 1998 the church was newly covered with stone platters.
architecture
The church building with a Romanesque nave and a late Gothic choir is surrounded by a walled cemetery with a charnel house.
The outside of the church shows two-tiered buttresses on the choir, on the south side of the choir there is a high, late Gothic sacristy tower, it is octagonal from the second floor, it has wall notches and segment-arched acoustic windows, it has an eight-sided pointed helmet over four gables. A Roman-era building block with a tendril relief is walled up on the cheek of the vestry entrance. The brick arbor from the 18th century in front of the western front has a round arch, the arbor contains a brick sacrificial table. On the south facade there is a painted over fresco of Christophorus .
The interior of the church shows in the originally flat-roofed nave, a four-bay ribbed vault around 1600 on sturdy pillars. The wooden gallery has a round organ bay. The triumphal arch is flat arched. The one-bay choir with a reticulated ridge vault from the 16th century closes with a five-eighth closure . The windows of the church are changed in baroque style. The sacristy on the tower ground floor is barrel vaulted.
Furnishing
The baroque high altar from 1745 bears the carved figures Andreas, Peter and Paul, Katharina and Barbara, Valentin and Josef, all attributed to Johann Pacher . Pacher also created the console figure Johannes Nepomuk in 1743. The people's altar was created in 1991.
The late Gothic figure of Andreas is from the end of the 15th century. In a showcase there is a carved Calvary group from the fourth quarter of the 18th century, attributed to the Tyrolean Anton Huber and the rider from Friesach.
Karner
The Karner in the south of the church is a Romanesque round building from the 12th century, it has a round apse with a small arched window in the east and has a conical roof. The ossuary is in the basement. The interior of the church with a block altar has a wooden ceiling with a rosette pattern from the 16th century. The Roman epitaph for the slave Nigrus erected by his wife Sura is walled up in the door jamb. In 1987 the Karner was adapted as a funeral hall.
Funerary monuments
- Outside to the right of the entrance to the church is a Roman tomb relief depicting a scribe.
- Outside there is a late Classicist pyramid tombstone for Peter Krenmayr who died in 1843.
literature
- Glantschach, community Liebenfels, parish church St. Andreas, Karner south of the church, former parsonage. In: The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Carinthia 2001 . Pp. 195-196.
Web links
Coordinates: 46 ° 44 ′ 54.5 ″ N , 14 ° 15 ′ 59.2 ″ E