Parish church Gmünd in Carinthia
The parish church of Gmünd in Carinthia is located in Kirchgasse in the municipality of Gmünd in Carinthia in the Spittal an der Drau district in Carinthia. The Roman Catholic parish church , consecrated on the feast of the Assumption of Mary , belongs to the deanery Gmünd-Millstatt in the diocese of Gurk-Klagenfurt . The church and the cemetery are under monument protection ( list entry ).
history
The church was consecrated in 1339. After 1459 a chapel donated by Christian Rosenhaimer was added. In 1499 the nave was vaulted. After a fire in 1613 damaged the roof of the church and the steeple, it was restored in the same year. In the years 1641/1642 the Raitenau chapel was added by the builder Daniel Deutta. After the city fire of 1792, the Pankratius Church was profaned and the Assumption of Mary became the city parish church in its place . In 1965 the church was completely restored, and the facade was restored in 1998.
architecture
The large Gothic church building has baroque additions.
The church consists of a late Gothic hall longhouse and a Gothic long choir with a 5/8 end from 1339. The two side aisles end in polygonal side choirs. Slender, stepped buttresses support the three choirs.
The Rosenhaimer Chapel is attached to the south of the nave, the Raitenau Chapel to the east of the apse of the main choir and the baroque sacristy from the 17th century on the north side between the side and the long choir. To the north of the nave stands the church tower connected to the city wall on its north side . The tower was built on Gothic foundations in 1886/87 after it was destroyed by fire in 1792. In the 74 meter high tower, crowned with a helmet, hang 5 bells; A stair tower is built on the west side.
In the main choir, the church has tall, narrow lancet windows in a richly profiled frame, and in the Rosenhaimer Chapel there are pointed-arched tracery windows. There is a pointed arched side portal on the south side of the nave. The ogival main portal on the west side is richly profiled and decorated with quatrefoil in the tympanum . The portal is protected by the square, groin-vaulted vestibule, built around 1600, with an arch over Tuscan columns . In 1999 an inscription fragment framed by a border and a crucifixion with the Arma Christi from around 1370 were uncovered on the west facade . To the right of the portal is a fragment of the fresco with two saints and ribbons. On the west side of the Rosenhaimer Chapel there is a wall painting from the 18th century, it shows a crucifix with a kneeling spiritual donor and an old view of Gmünd as a background, below which Christ is depicted in limbo .
A ribbed vault spans the interior of the three-aisled, four-bay nave. The vault with elongated, unbroken ribs rests on six octagonal pillars. The vault built in 1499–1513 replaced the earlier provisional wooden ceiling. Andreas Bühler is accepted as the master builder, but there are no indications for this. The central nave is the same height as the side aisles and the same height and width as the choir.
The baroque organ loft stands on a four-part pillar arch and is half the depth of the entrance yoke. Originally the nave only had three large round windows on the west wall; the baroque side aisle windows were not installed until 1670–1680. The side choirs with a 3/8 end have a star rib vault, the Rosenhaimer Chapel, into which a double pointed arch arcade on the south aisle leads, has a mesh rib vault over cantilevered templates. A high, profiled triumphal arch with a pointed arch connects the central nave with the choir. This has a ribbed vault from the 14th century over semicircular wall templates on sculptured consoles. The keystones are painted. A door leads from the north wall of the choir into the two-bay, groin-vaulted sacristy . Above it is an oratory from the late 17th century with three neo-Gothic box windows with keel arches.
North aisle with cross altar
Facility
High altar
The high altar was in 1722 from Millstätter made master carpenter Georg Tangerer and 1730 by Johann Benedict Fromiller in gold and marble colors taken . The altar with its two-storey column architecture has sacrificial portals in the base zone . The middle picture shows the Assumption of Mary and was painted by Jakob Zanussi in 1722 . The statues of the princes of the apostles Peter and Paul stand between two columns. Above the middle picture is a chronogram with the inscription “MarIa aVXILlare popVLo aD te ConfVgIentI” (Maria, help all who flee to you). If you see the capitalized letters as the Roman number MIVXILIVLDCVII, it gives the year of completion of the altar: 1730. The upper picture shows the Holy Trinity and is the work of a Salzburg painter. Next to it are the statues of Saints Wolfgang and Ottmar . The sculptures on the altar are the work of a local artist, probably Paul Abweger.
Crucifixion altar
On the left side altar from 1781 there is a crucifix, flanked by Maria and Johannes. The round top picture shows the risen Christ.
Nepomuk altar
On the right side altar with sacrificial portals and column architecture with protruding side parts, the central image shows St. John Nepomuk , the sculpture in the top of Mary and Child. The four statues on the side represent Jesuit saints. Mary and the Annunciation angel are painted on the sacrificial doors .
Rosenhaimer Altar
According to the chronogram, the altar in the Rosenhaimer Chapel dates from 1730. The central picture shows the Holy Family with the baby Jesus in the middle, above which the Holy Spirit dove and God the Father hover. Sculptures depicting the teaching of Mary and Saint Joachim stand on the sacrificial portals . Saint Matthias is depicted on the medallion in the altarpiece . Next to it are the statuettes of the two Johannes.
pulpit
The rococo pulpit , built in 1760/70, was painted in gold and marble by Joseph Benedikt Aicher in 1779. The figurines of the four evangelists sit on the bulges of the pulpit , the parapets are decorated with rocaille ornamentation like the pulpit back wall . A Holy Spirit dove is attached to the underside of the sound cover. The sound cover is crowned by soaring volutes decorated with rocaille ornamentation , which carry the statue of the apostle Paul .
Further facility
- On the baptismal font in the Rosenhaimer Chapel, which is used as a baptistery, there is a stone lid marked 1626 with a baptismal group from the 18th century as a top.
- The console statuettes on the choir walls represent the saints Barbara , Margareta , Katharina , Florian , Johannes Nepomuk and Antonius .
- Opposite the pulpit is a statue of the Madonna from the beginning of the 19th century, which has been newly painted.
- On the wall of the north aisle are two choir stalls from the late 18th century.
- On the balustrade of the gallery hangs a sculptured handkerchief of Veronica , probably from the 16th century.
- The organ was built in 1713 by Josef Dölger in the "southern German type".
- In late baroque frames hang the pictures with the hearts of Mary and Jesus, a representation of the Mother of God with the child and the boy John.
- A crucifixion image from around 1470 is in safekeeping from the church in Innernöring.
- On the north aisle wall is the coat of arms tombstone of Rudolf von Raitenau from 1633 made of red marble. The tombstone of Phillippus von Leobenegg, marshal and captain of the diocese of Brixen , on the south aisle wall, is also made of red marble , with a life-size relief of an armored knight with sword and flag from 1572.
Baptismal font
Choir stalls in the nave
Epitaph of Philippus Leobenck
Raitenau chapel
The Raitenau Chapel is a round building with a rectangular apse. The chapel is not accessible from the church, but only through a portal with a blown segment gable on the south side. The altar of the chapel was built around 1680, the Raitenau coat of arms can be seen in the blasted gable. A statue of the Redeemer from 1858, created by Hanns Gasser from white limestone, as well as two statues of Josef Messner , John the Baptist from 1863 and the Good Shepherd are displayed. A large number of grave slabs can be found in the chapel. The chapel now serves as a funeral hall.
literature
Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia . Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , pp. 202–205.
- Barbara Kienzl : The baroque pulpits in Carinthia. Verlag des Kärntner Landesarchiv, Klagenfurt 1986, ISBN 3-900531-16-1 , p. 283.
- Gottfried Biedermann, Karin Leitner: Gothic in Carinthia - With photos by Wim van der Kallen. Carinthia Verlag, Klagenfurt 2001, ISBN 3-85378-521-2 , pp. 26 f., 54 f.
- Barbara Kienzl, Wilhelm Deuer: Renaissance in Carinthia - With a contribution by Eckart Vancsa. Carinthia Verlag, Klagenfurt 1996, ISBN 3-85378-438-0 , p. 24 f.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Parish Church of the Assumption. In: kath-kirche-kaernten.at. Retrieved May 21, 2020 .
- ^ Axel Huber : Andreas Bühler from Gmünd in Carinthia and his late-Gothic church buildings in Graubünden. In: Historical Society of Carinthia (ed.): Carinthia I . 196th year. Klagenfurt 2006, p. 305-328 .
Coordinates: 46 ° 54 '26.7 " N , 13 ° 32' 2.8" E