Hohenfeld parish church
The Roman Catholic parish church Hohenfeld is dedicated to St. Radegundis . It stands on a terrace above Pöckstein Castle in the municipality of Strasbourg .
history
The church was founded in 1043 as a separate church by St. Hemma . Later the church came to the monastery and then to the diocese of Gurk . Hofenfeld was still dependent on the Lieding parish in 1131 . Hohenfeld was first mentioned as a parish in 1249.
In 1945 the church was damaged by a bomb aimed at the nearby Gurk Bridge .
Building description
The church is a medium-sized Romanesque building. The late Gothic tower with romanised sound windows stands on the north side of the choir. On the south wall there are two cast iron epitaphs from 1826 and 1828 from the Obersteiner family of tradesmen, which were manufactured in the kk Eisengusswerk Maria Zell. The porch was added in the 19th century. The Romanesque step portal from the middle of the 12th century has a door with spiral fittings.
The wooden ceiling in the nave was renewed in 1946. The west gallery dates from the 19th century. In the rectangular choir, a baroque cloister vault from the 18th century rises between belts and laterally pushed, short transverse barrels . The choir ends in a drawn fifteenth note. A late Gothic portal leads into the ribbed sacristy on the tower ground floor.
Facility
The high altar , built around 1740, has been renewed several times. The tabernacle was added around 1760. The middle picture with St. Radigundis in front of the Madonna was painted by Josef Ferdinand Fromiller in 1739 . The statues of Saints Johannes Nepomuk , Oswald , Antonius Abbas and Franz Xavier are on the main floor . The upper picture shows Saint Barbara , flanked by the figures of Saints Blasius and Sebastian .
The left side altar bears a Pietà from the end of the 17th century and two baroque chandelier angels. The crucifix and the two figures of saints without attributes on the right side altar were made around 1800. The oil paintings in the nave, painted in the 17th century, show the baptism of Christ , Anna selbdritt and the saints Barbara and Sebastian. A late Gothic baptismal font is also part of the facility .
literature
- Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia . Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 309 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. 110 f.
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Coordinates: 46 ° 53 ′ 33.3 " N , 14 ° 26 ′ 21.2" E