Grafenbach parish church
The Roman Catholic parish church Grafenbach is located 1161 m above sea level on the southern slope of the Saualpe in the municipality of Diex . The late Gothic fortified church is dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene .
history
The church is first mentioned in a document in 1309 in the copy book of the Griffen monastery . In 1377 it was named as a branch of the Diex parish church under the benefices of the Völkermarkt collegiate chapter. It was not until the 18th century that Grafenbach was raised to its own parish.
Weir system
The weir system with an intact ring wall over three meters high was built between 1487 and 1532. In the south-west there is a two-storey gate tower with a hipped roof , beveled round arch portal and a barrel vault with stitch caps in the basement. On the inner wall of the defensive wall there is a wooden battlement with a gable roof covered with stone shingles. In 1993, a rehearsal room was set up on the upper floor of the gate tower.
Church building
The late Gothic church was built in the first third of the 16th century. The tower on the south side of the nave has two-part acoustic windows with tracery and is crowned with an eight-sided pointed helmet covered with stone shingle. The two bells in the tower date from the 13th and 14th centuries. The nave and choir are supported by three-tiered buttresses. A crucifix from the 17th century, which was restored in 1982, hangs on the outer wall of the nave. In 1640 a two-storey vestibule was connected to the nave in the west in full height and width, which can be entered on the north and south sides through chamfered round arched portals. The colorful west portal of the church is adorned with rich profiles, a crab-covered keel arch and tracery in the tympanum .
A star-ribbed vault rests on circular services above the three-bay nave. A pointed triumphal arch connects the nave with the two-bay choir with a 3/8 end. A net rib vault extends over the choir on polygonal services. The walls of the nave and the choir are broken through by two-lane tracery windows. In the south of the nave, a pointed arched portal leads into the barrel-vaulted tower room.
Facility
The uniformly baroque altar furnishings come from the fourth quarter of the 17th century.
The high-quality, three-zone high altar shows the painted Annunciation on the doors of the sacrificial portals . In the niches between the presented columns are the statues of Saints Margaretha , Katharina , Maria Magdalena, Dorothea and Gertrud , in the excerpt Saint Sebastian between Saints Rochus and Jerome , above a Madonna sculpture flanked by putti between split gables.
The central figure in the left side altar is Mary with the child, the altarpiece contains the sculptures of St. Joseph and those of the evangelists Matthew and Luke .
In the center of the right side altar is the figure of St. Barbara , above is St. Oswald , flanked by the evangelists Johannes and Markus .
Other significant sculptures are a Man of Sorrows , a painful Mother of God , St. Augustine and the Archangel Michael with soul scales on the organ case. A Gothic statue of Maria Magdalena from around 1515 stood above the sacristy portal until a few decades ago, but is now kept separately. On certain holidays it was carried in processions.
The old, baroque organ, which was bought from Hochfeistritz in 1859 , was replaced in 1986 by a new one from the Rieger company .
The statue of St. Gertrude of the high altar with a mouse on the distaff
Gothic statue of Mary Magdalene
literature
- Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia . Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 232 f.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Robert Wlattnik: Diex - Sun Village on the Saualpe. From the medieval fortified church to the modern tourist community. Verlag Johannes Heyn, Klagenfurt 1996 (2nd edition). ISBN 3-8536-6808-9 . P. 181
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Coordinates: 46 ° 44 ′ 49.8 " N , 14 ° 39 ′ 45.4" E