Parish Church of St. Michael and St. George (Moosburg)
The parish church of St. Michael and St. Georg stands on the western outskirts of the market town of Moosburg in the state of Carinthia in Austria . The church is a listed building ( list entry ).
history
The Roman Catholic St. Michael 's Church was first mentioned in 1368. During the Turkish invasions in 1479, the church was badly damaged.
The church was built as a three-nave Gothic building. Rebuilt in the Baroque style in the third quarter of the 18th century , the system was "turned around" during the restoration so that the new presbytery faces west and the entrance is now in the old choir .
In 1769 Pope Clement XIV granted the Moosburg Church an indulgence , probably as support for structural changes.
Fires in 1872 and 1908 destroyed the roof structure and spire .
Building
The church is a large, rectangular structure. On the street side, it stands above an infill wall with blind arcades , and a wide flight of stairs leads to the main portal. The exterior presents itself with a baroque east facade , hiding the former choir . It is characterized by a giant Tuscan column arrangement and a protruding central projection with a triangular gable.
The entrance is covered by a straight lintel with a window above it; to the side there are simple windows on two floors . The east tower as a former choir tower is set back above the facade, which probably dates from 1872, with corner pilasters and blind arcades , and bifor windows in the bell storey . Above that there is a polygonal pointed roof . The sides of the nave have high rectangular windows. The semicircular west apse is strongly drawn in.
A continuous hipped roof covers the three-aisled church building.
"Last Supper". Ceiling fresco in the Moosburg parish church
Facility
The altarpiece of the baroque high altar with sacrificial portals shows the fall of Lucifer by the Archangel Michael. Assistant figures are John the Baptist and the Apostle Peter on the left, the Apostles Paul and Andrew on the right. The group of figures in the top represents the Coronation of Mary . The altar optically merges with the painting of the apse.
The middle relief on the basket of the baroque pulpit shows the twelve-year-old Jesus in front of the scribes in the temple, the relief on the back wall shows Jesus the good shepherd. On the cover is a figure of the Archangel Michael accompanied by two angels.
Historic tombstones
In and on the church there are historical gravestones , including a. from
- Josef von Stubenberg († 1556)
- Katharina von Ernau, b. Bibriach († 1581)
- Johanna von Ernau, b. Stömlin († 1590)
- Ulrich II of Ernau (1531–1607)
- Wolf Raimund Paradeiser on Neuhaus and Gradisch († 1662)
- Georg Andreas Count of Kranegg († 1665)
- Regina Elisabeth Countess of Chranegg († 1685)
Gravestones from Roman times , so-called Roman stones, are also in the church.
"Römerstein" : portrait bust of a married couple
literature
- Austria: Art Topography, “I. Volume: Duchy of Carinthia ”. , P. 239, Vienna 1889
- DEHIO Carinthia - topographical inventory of monuments. Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , pp. 562-564
- Claudia Fräss-Ehrfeld : History of Carinthia. Volume 2. The class epoch. Johannes Heyn, Klagenfurt 1994, ISBN 3-85366-685-X
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Coordinates: 46 ° 39 '26.7 " N , 14 ° 10' 24.3" E