Gnesau parish church
The Roman Catholic parish church of Gnesau , consecrated to St. Leonhard , a former fortified church surrounded by a fortified cemetery, is located in the village of Gnesau in the municipality of Gnesau in Carinthia . Mentioned in a document in 1213, the church was first mentioned as a parish in 1499.
Building description
The Romanesque choir tower church is a hall church that is based on a building before 1213. It is externally changed by the raising of the vault. The remaining construction of the lost loopholes their original meaning. The tower with a core from the 14th century was raised in 1723 and provided with a baroque onion dome. This is followed by the late Gothic choir from the last third of the 15th century, which is supported by stepped buttresses. The original tracery has been preserved in the eastern pointed arch window behind the high altar . The remaining windows were changed with the church facade in the late 18th century when it was given a classical architectural structure. The shapes sunk into the rough plaster as a smooth, light structure show pilasters and ribbons as well as Ionic columns and Gothic window shapes. The entrance portals on the west and south sides with Gothic doors are protected by pillar vestibules. A sacrificial table is set up in the south vestibule.
The following bells have been preserved in the tower: by Peter Pfinzing , dated 1491, by Heinrich Dirsam, dated 1592, by David Polster, dated 1656 and one from 1485.
The almost square nave is divided into three naves by two octagonal pillars. Above it rises a stitch cap vault on consoles. The organ loft with a vaulted parapet made of polychromed wood was built around 1780. The square of the tower closes at the pointed triumphal arch with a pointed barrel and the two-bay choir closes with a quintuple . Bartholomäus Vierthaler is accepted as the builder of the choir. A reticulated ribbed vault rests above the choir on delicate services with foliage capitals . A small round arch portal leads from the tower square into the former sacristy in the north and a late Gothic keel arch portal with iron-studded door into the southern, today's sacristy with a star-shaped vault. The Gothic keystone at the apex of the choir head shows the Imago Christi. The glass windows were designed by Günther Kraus in 1982.
Facility
The high altar from 1760 fills the choir in height and width. The middle picture shows Saint Leonhard. Next to it are the figures of Saints Martin of Tours and Bartholomew and, above the sacrificial passages, the princes of the apostles Simon Peter and Paul of Tarsus . The essay shows a coronation of Mary between the plague saints Sebastian and Rochus of Montpellier . The two side altars from 1771 are works by the carpenter Anton Zöderer and the painter Peter Kröll. The altar panel on the left side altar shows Anna Maria teaching , next to it the statues of Saints James the Elder and Joachim . The image of St. Barbara of Nicomedia on the right side altar is flanked by the statues of St. Catherine of Alexandria and Margaret of Antioch . On the pulpit created by Anton Zöderer in 1771 are the four evangelists on the pulpit and putti with the symbols of theological virtues on the sound cover . In the choir is a console statue of an important sculpture of a crescent moon Madonna from the younger Villach workshop around 1520, as well as a St. Joseph of Nazareth from the beginning of the 18th century. The church also features prayer stalls from 1760 and a late Gothic baptismal font .
literature
- Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia. Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 211 f.
- Barbara Kienzl : The baroque pulpits in Carinthia. Verlag des Kärntner Landesarchiv, Klagenfurt 1986, ISBN 3-900531-16-1 , p. 283 f.
Coordinates: 46 ° 46 ′ 30.5 ″ N , 13 ° 57 ′ 52.1 ″ E