Gunzenberg parish church

The Roman Catholic parish church Gunzenberg is dedicated to St. Florian . It is 1030 meters above sea level in the municipality of Mölbling . The church was first mentioned in 1449 as a chapel belonging to St. Stefan near Strasbourg . A curate was established here in 1788. The church is popularly called "German Florian" in contrast to the "windy Florian" on the opposite Mannsberg.

Building description

The church is a medium-sized building with Romanesque and Gothic components that has undergone further changes in the Baroque and more recently. The Gothic tower on the south side of the nave has ogival sound openings and is crowned by a late baroque onion helmet. One bell was cast in the middle of the 14th century, and a second is marked 1556. The retracted choir ends in a polygonal ending. In the 19th century, a western vestibule was added to the full height and width of the nave. The gallery is located on the upper floor of the vestibule, a Florian altar from the first half of the 17th century is set up and a relief of a Roman tomb with a heavily flattened representation of soldiers is walled in.

A baroque barrel vault with stitch caps rises above the single-nave, three-bay nave . A round arched triumphal arch connects the nave with the choir. The one-bay choir is barrel-vaulted, the three-sided choir end is ridge-vaulted. The church has two sacristies . The southern one on the tower ground floor is vaulted with a star ridge. A Romanesque window is visible here on the nave wall. The baroque sacristy extension on the north side dates from the 17th century and has cross vaults . The iron plate door of the sacristy is decorated on the outside with rosettes.

Facility

The three altars, richly decorated with cartilage , were built around 1670/1680. The high altar consists of an aedicule over a small base with lateral wings, a blown volute gable with a simple cartilage-like frame as an attachment, as well as richly carved, expansive ears made of cartilage and cherrub heads . The altar bears the figure of St. Florian in the middle, flanked by St. Stephen and Cosmas . The essay is a painting of God the Father .

On the left side altar there is a figure of Mary , in the upper picture a crescent moon Madonna is depicted. As on the main altar, the statues of Saints Florian, Stephanus and Cosmas are placed on this altar.

The right side altar bears a sculpture of St. Leonhard and shows the apostle Andreas in the top picture .

The pulpit was built around 1760, the Stations of the Cross in the 19th century. In the sacristy there is a vestry cupboard from the second half of the 17th century. A standing cross from the 14th century belonging to the church is kept in the Diocesan Museum in Klagenfurt .

literature

• Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia . Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 253 f.
• Siegfried Hartwagner: Austrian Art Monograph Volume VIII: Carinthia. The St. Veit an der Glan district . Verlag St. Peter, Salzburg 1977, ISBN 3-900173-22-2 , p. 80.

Coordinates: 46 ° 52 ′ 36.8 "  N , 14 ° 22 ′ 16.6"  E