Parish church Hermagor
The parish church in Hermagor is consecrated to Saints Hermagoras and Fortunatus and is located in the middle of the village on the Stocksteinerwand.
history
The parish was mentioned for the first time in 1169. The church is a building erected in the 15th century over an older core. A renovation took place after a Turkish invasion in 1478 . The external appearance was redesigned in a neo-Gothic style after a fire in 1904. In 1993 and 1994 an exterior restoration took place, in 1998 the interior restoration.
Building
The church consists of a hall longhouse and a late Gothic choir with a 5/8 end and single stepped buttresses. The exterior of the late Gothic Wolkenstein chapel in the southern extension of the side aisle is incorporated into the nave. The west portal and the south side portal have an ogival profile. The window frames, the pilaster cladding on the nave corners and the pinnacle-crowned attachments, as well as the circumferential pointed arch frieze and the gable section of the west facade are in the Romanesque-Gothic historicizing style. The tower stands on the north side between the choir and nave. It has ogival sound windows and is crowned with a pointed gable helmet. On the outside wall of the church there are tombstones of Konstantin, Abbot von Arnoldstein , Hans Preckinger, died 1599, and one "von Wolkenstein" with the designation 149 is attached. The statue of St. Hermagoras on the south wall of the church was created by Hans Domenik in 1961.
The four-bay nave has three aisles, with the side aisles being half as wide as the central nave. A pointed triumphal arch separates the nave from the choir. The two-bay choir is significantly lower than the nave. On the north side there is an ogival sacristy portal in the north-facing yoke, and in the south-facing yoke the neo-Gothic pointed arched door to the tower staircase. On the south side, a profiled pointed arch opening leads over three steps the width of a yoke into the one-yoke Selva Chapel with a simple vaulted star. The ribbed vault in the nave rises above octagonal pillars. It has artistically painted vaulted stones and figural paintings in small recessed areas. The keystone of the ribbed vault in the choir is painted with a Christ head. The organ stands on a neo-Gothic wooden gallery with a carved parapet over octagonal supports.
Statue of St. Hermagoras by H. Domenik
Keystone of the choir vault
Murals
In the choir next to the entrance to the Wolkenstein chapel, a fragment with a scene from a legend of a saint, which was created around 1485, was uncovered. The remains of a cycle of apostles in the end of the choir behind the high altar are dated around 1370–80. The paintings on the keystones and in the four-pass fields were made by a Pustertal workshop around 1478–85.
Fresco in the end of the choir
Fresco in the end of the choir
Facility
The interior of the church comes mainly from the baroque period.
The high altar, which was created by Johann Paterer in 1749, has an open three-part column architecture. The central figure represents St. Hermagoras. The assistant figures are the apostles Peter and Paul. In the altarpiece is a moving group of the Coronation of the Virgin Mary. The figures of St. Benedict (with the rules of the order) on the left and St. Scholastica (with abbess staff) on the right.
The south side altar shows in the middle picture a holy Nepomuk floating above clouds . Assistant figures are Saint Notburga von Rattenberg with the sickle and Saint Barbara with the chalice. In the upper picture you can see the upbringing of Mary, on the cafeteria there is a saint-main picture.
A neo-Gothic Madonna figure stands on the simpler north side altar. The side figures, Saint Joachim and Saint Anna, as well as the angels and the tabernacle come from the Rococo. The upper picture shows Joseph, the foster father with the baby Jesus.
The altar in the south chapel of the choir, the Selva di Chapel, dates from around 1510 from the older Villach workshop. In the predella it shows Christ as the Man of Sorrows with the apostle John and the Madonna. Above it stands the statue of the Madonna with Child and Grape in the shrine niche. The moving wings show Saints Barbara and Catherine on the inside, Maria and the Annunciation Angel on the outside. The original shrine wings were stolen in 1987 and have been replaced by photocopies. The plague saints Sebastian and Rochus can be seen on the fixed wings.
The strictly shaped and richly furnished rococo pulpit , which was built around 1770, is one of the important baroque holdings . On the basket railing you can see Christ and a kneeling Peter handing over the keys. The four statuettes represent the evangelists. On the sound cover is the Lamb of God on the book with the seven seals.
organ
The organ was built in 1860 by the organ builder Josef Grafenauer (Egg im Gailtal) and restored in 1997. The slider chest instrument has 14 stops on two manuals and a pedal . The playing and stop actions are mechanical. The pedal registers are expanded to H; the keyboard is enough for the pedal coupler to f 0 .
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- Coupling : II / I, I / P (through coupling)
Others
Also worth seeing are the prayer chair with inlay from the 18th century, a large baroque crucifix on the north wall of the choir and the octagonal, late Gothic baptismal font with coat of arms and a baptismal group from the 18th century. In the interior of the church there are coats of arms grave plates of Andre Meixner (died 1502) and Jörg von Malentein (died 1521).
literature
- Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia . Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , pp. 292-294.
- Matthias Kapeller: Churches, monasteries and culture - meeting places in Carinthia . Verlag Carinthia, Klagenfurt 2001, ISBN 3-85378-539-5 , p. 82 f.
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Coordinates: 46 ° 37 '39.3 " N , 13 ° 22' 7.3" E