Parish church Hochfeistritz
The Roman Catholic parish and pilgrimage church of Hochfeistritz is a fortified church built during the Turkish invasions . The church consecrated to Our Lady stands at a height of 969 meters on the western ridge of the Saualpe in the municipality of Eberstein .
history
A first chapel of grace in Hochfeistritz was consecrated as early as 1240. In 1383 the church was named as a branch church of St. Walburgen. In 1414 lightning destroyed the chapel. The foundation stone of today's church was laid in 1446. In 1475 a master Mathes and until 1502 a parlier Jörg are named as the builder. Master Mathes is likely to be Master Mothe, the builder of the church on Magdalensberg . Parlier Jörg was primarily responsible for building the weir systems. After the church was consecrated in 1487, the church was damaged by fire. In 1491 the Bishop of Lavant consecrated the church. It was not until 1787 that the church received parish rights.
Legend
In 1215 a farmer who was grazing his oxen saw Mary with the child in a tall spruce tree. A chapel was built on the site of the apparition and consecrated in 1240.
Building description
The late Gothic church shows the influence of the Admont building school and consists of a three-aisled hall longhouse with a west tower, a slightly raised, two-bay choir and a fortified sacristy on the south side. The four-stepped buttresses of the ship end in figure tabernacles on the western pair and in pinnacles on the rest . The choir is supported by simpler struts. On the north side of the choir there are remains of a mural of St. Christopher from the second half of the 15th century. Remains of the original polychroming have been preserved on the small north portal with a keel arch . The south portal has a tracery tympanum, figure tabernacles in the garment and a blast-like crown with pinnacles, crabs and finials . The west tower protrudes slightly from the facade. Of the seven floors of the tower, the top one was added in 1807. A bell was cast by Thomas Gollner in 1864. The west portal with an elaborate frame from the third quarter of the 15th century has figure tabernacles with painted figures, like a man of Sorrows , Mary and John , in the garment and in the tympanum . The blast-like crowning of the portal extends into the third floor of the tower and merges into a delicate bar and blind arch structure. A remnant of an inscription from 1620 has been preserved on the lintel of the shoulder arch portal . The inner portal in the west vestibule in the basement of the tower has a tracery tympanum.
Half of the four-bay, three-aisled nave is occupied by the west gallery or by the tower and the side stair turrets. The rich star rib vault rests on profiled, square pillars with round services and polygonal wall templates. All capitals are decorated with lavish tendrils. The rhythm of the vaults is accentuated by the grid of the wide belt or divider arches . The inscribed rib stars sit on their own consoles. On the keystones and at the intersection of the ribs there are painted or relief shields or disks with stars, coats of arms, master and craft symbols. The two-bay choir with a five-eighth end is slightly drawn in and has a rich star rib vault. The drawn in buttresses are placed on the wall with leaf capitals interrupted by figural niches. Remains of painted apostles have been preserved in the figure niches. The triumphal arch , the belt arches and the ribs have attached tracery noses. There are painted shields at the intersection of the ribs. From the south side of the choir, a pointed arch portal with an iron-studded, late Gothic door leads into the star-vaulted and cross-ribbed sacristy. Above the sacristy there is a small oratory or a well-fortified upper floor. The fresco on the north wall of the nave, painted around 1480/1490, shows a cycle of Christ in a monumental, almost cloth-like composition. The fresco was removed from the outer wall of the sacristy and placed inside the church in 1974.
Facility
The Baroque high altar, high and wide as the choir, was probably around 1670 by Jakob Seitlinger created and in 1672 by Bartholomew Seitlinger taken . The altar with twisted columns and cranked entablature is decorated with rich cartilage . The central figure of the Mother of God and the flanking statues of Saints Catherine and Barbara were created in a Carinthian-Styrian workshop and were probably on the original altar, consecrated in 1491. The other figures, the princes of the apostles Peter and Paul above the sacrificial passage portals , the mercy seat and the annunciation group in the top come from the Baroque era. The tabernacle with candlestick angels was created around 1730, the carved acanthus pendium with an immaculate relief in the first quarter of the 18th century.
The left choir altar from 1670/1680 consists of an aedicula over a small base and a curved, split-segment gable with a small aedicule with an attachment. The column shafts are decorated with vine tendrils, the ears on the sides with cartilage. The altar panel shows the Annunciation, the top niche contains the statue of St. Margaret , and the top is the figure of St. Wolfgang .
The right choir altar resembles the left in structure and decoration. The middle picture shows the penitent Maria Magdalena . In the essay there is a holy martyr, the crown is the statue of the Archangel Michael . A female saint and the plague saints Sebastian and Rochus stand at the altar table .
The Anne altar on the east wall of the left aisle dates from the middle of the 17th century and consists of a three-part niche profitable, of wings in the form of flat niches with console figures, a blown volute gable with a cartouche-like cartilage frame as an attachment and a figure of Christ and two saints as Crowning. The middle picture shows Mary's teaching, the essay picture God the Father . On the cafeteria, with a late Gothic tracery filling on the side, there is a Pietà from the 17th century, carved according to a Gothic model . The carved antependium dates from the middle of the 18th century.
The Leonhard altar on the east wall of the right aisle was built in the last quarter of the 17th century and consists of an aedicule with side console figures and a broken segmented gable with an aedicule as an attachment. The middle picture shows Saint Leonhard , the top picture shows Saint Florian . The side figures on the main floor represent the evangelist John and the apostle Bartholomäus , one figure in the essay is probably Saint Hemma , the crown is the statue of Antonius of Padua . The wooden relief of the death of the Virgin on the cafeteria is a copy. The late Gothic original is kept in the Diocesan Museum in Klagenfurt .
The baroque pulpit was created by Johann Pacher and Jakob Kuffler in 1760, and Ferdinand Walter painted it in 1762. The figures of the four evangelists sit on the pulpit , while Christ as the judge of the world and the trumpet angel stand on the sound cover . A Holy Spirit dove is attached to the underside of the sound cover . The rear wall of the pulpit forms an IHS monogram .
The organ was built in 1859 by Johann Valentintschitsch. The Gothic font stands on a wooden base. The statue of Christ at the column of torture on the left triumphal arch is from the first quarter of the 18th century. The church also features a beautiful Madonna from around 1410/1415, statues of Saints Leonhard and Maria Magdalena from around 1520, and a baroque Sebastian.
Fortifications and Chapel of Grace
The churchyard is only not bordered by slopes on the east side and is therefore most strongly fortified here. There is a projecting gate tower in the northeast and a semicircular wall tower in the east. The semicircular wall tower was originally open on the inside. In 1720 he became one of St. The chapel dedicated to Wolfgang was rebuilt. This was consecrated as the Chapel of Our Lady of Mercy in 1887 . The statue of grace "Mary in the spruce", which until then stood in a niche opposite the church wall, was transferred to the chapel. The chapel is only open for pilgrimages.
The gate tower, left in the background the Chapel of Grace
The Chapel of Grace in the former fortified tower
literature
- Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia . Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 300ff.
- Gottfried Biedermann and Karin Leitner: Gothic in Carinthia - With photos by Wim van der Kallen. Carinthia Verlag, Klagenfurt 2001, ISBN 3-85378-521-2 , p. 48 f.
- Karl Kafka: "Carinthia's fortified churches I". Birken-Verlag, Vienna 1972, ISBN 3-85030-034-X , pp. 80-83.
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Coordinates: 46 ° 46 ′ 51.5 ″ N , 14 ° 35 ′ 40.1 ″ E