Parish church Irschen
The parish church of Irschen in the municipality of Irschen in Carinthia is dedicated to St. Dionysus .
history
The patronage of St. Dionysius indicates that the church was built early, possibly as early as the 9th century. A parish in Irschen was first mentioned in a document in 1190. It is the mother parish of Oberdrauburg and Nikolsdorf and was under the Archdiocese of Salzburg from the 13th century at the latest . The church was restored in 1847, 1940 and most recently in 1991/92.
Building
The Romanesque choir , built at the end of the 12th century, consists of a choir square and a semicircular apse and is supported by simple small buttresses . The two-aisled, three-bay nave with simply stepped buttresses on the south side is built in the Gothic style. At the north-west corner of the nave there is a tower with three-part round-arched openings, which were the sound windows of the formerly low tower from the Romanesque period, and ogive sound windows. The tower is crowned by a pointed gable helmet. In 1839 an open vestibule was added to the west facade of the nave. The ceiling painting, which was probably created by Josef Köfler from Oberdrauburg, shows Peter healing the lame Aeneas von Lydda at the temple door. (Acts 9: 32-34). A baroque sacristy is added to the south of the choir . Under the choir there is a small rectangular crypt with barrel vaults, which is accessible from the outside through a round arched door on the south side. On the south wall of the nave there is a St. Christopher fresco from the end of the 13th century and two donor figures from the 14th century. The nave walls are subdivided by original and renewed pointed arch windows, with a baroque rectangular window on the south wall. The choir has five Gothic pointed arched windows with original tracery noses.
The star rib vault of the nave rests on two asymmetrically arranged round pillars and four polygonal wall pillars with semicircular services. The west gallery was added in the baroque period. A round arched triumphal arch connects the nave with the narrower choir. The ribbed vault in the choir square rests on columns with bulbous bases. A belt arch connects the choir and apse. A new door leads from the south wall of the choir into the sacristy, above which there is a round-arched baroque gallery opening.
Murals
The frescoes in the choir were exposed in 1939. The painting on the north wall of the choir from around 1330 shows the glorification of Mary: In the upper part, Mary is crowned by Christ, surrounded by two saints. Below, in a cloverleaf arkature , Mary sits on Solomon's throne , guarded by lions and flanked by figures of saints and virtues. The only fragments of the Last Judgment fresco in the apse originate from around 1520. It shows the reception of the blessed by Peter against the backdrop of the heavenly Jerusalem. The paintings in the choir vault were made around 1849; the painter is probably Christoph Brandstätter. Shown are the Adoration of the Shepherds, Adoration of the Magi , the Transfiguration of Christ and probably the learned Bishop Dionysius in front of Golgotha and a temple entrance. The depictions of the Assumption of Mary and Christ as the ruler of the world on the triumphal arch are by the same painter . In 1990 a painting of Christophorus dated around 1260 was discovered on the south wall of the nave above the gallery. It shows Jesus not as a child, but as an adult. In 1992, floral Gothic tendrils in the nave vault and an apostle breast image with tracery frame on the south wall of the choir were uncovered.
Facility
High altar
The late Gothic winged altar from around 1515 is the work of the Younger Villach School . The altar stood at its current location under the apse arch until 1799 and was then replaced by a late baroque high altar by Michael Köfler. In 1899 the Gothic altar was returned to its original location after restoration. The late baroque altar is now in the Bleiburg parish church . In the shrine are the statues of Saint Dionysius with his head in hand, the Evangelist John with the chalice and Leonhard with the chain. The reliefs on the wings depict the apostle Andreas with the diagonal cross and Saint Oswald with the raven. Saint Chrysanthus , who fights a skeleton, and Saint Wolfgang with a church model are painted on the outside of the wings . On the predella, the three weather lords, Johannes Evangelist, Paulus and Florian are shown each with an overlong sword and plate nimbus. In conversation Enge is a Sacred Heart statue , flanked by Joseph the foster father and John the Baptist . These figures, like the neo-Gothic tabernacle and the altar frame, were created by Alois Progar around 1898. The painted cloth of Veronica on the back of the predella and the two kneeling angel figures also date from this time .
Mary Altar
The women's altar on the left was made around 1760 and in the central niche it houses a Madonna of Mercy from the mid-18th century. The top picture shows John the Baptist and a Pope. The Pope is New Year's Eve , the second church patron, or Gregory the Great . The conclusion of the altar is the statue of the Archangel Michael with sword and soul scales.
Cross altar
On the right side is the cross altar with a marbled frame. The late Gothic crucifix, created around 1525, was adapted in Baroque style around 1730. Mary and John stand under the cross, God the Father and the Holy Spirit hover above the cross. A shrine tabernacle from the 17th century has been inserted into the predella zone. Above it is a picture of the Sacred Heart of Jesus from the 19th century based on the model of the Bolzano Sacred Heart of Jesus picture by Karl Henrici from 1770. The Versper picture in the antependium was painted in 1881 by Adam Brandstätter and restored in 1995.
pulpit
The pulpit, created in the first third of the 18th century, is located on the south wall of the first nave yoke. A cloud with a crucifix is attached to the pulpit. The four evangelists are depicted in ear frames on the parapet. Four putti in poliment white mount sit on the corner volutes, holding the symbols of the three Christian virtues in their hands. The cross symbolizes faith, the anchor hope and the heart love. A dove of the Holy Spirit hovers on the underside of the sound cover . The sound cover is crowned by the figure of Moses with the tablets of the law.
Further facility
To the right of the Marien Altar is an octagonal baptismal font from 1892 with a baptism sculpture from the mid-19th century. In the choir square, next to the princes of the apostles Peter and Paul, there is also St. Ulrich with the fish on consoles . On the right nave wall are the console statues of the Apostle Andrew and St. Leonhard. The two baroque statues from the 18th century were given a neo-Gothic color scheme in the 19th century. The following sculptures can be seen on the left nave wall: a holy Oswald with a raven from the middle of the 18th century, a group of guardian angels carved by Jakob Kreisenegger from Berg in 1844 , an evangelist Johannes from the middle of the 18th century, and Johannes and Maria von einer Late Gothic crucifixion group created around 1525 , which was originally set up in a wayside shrine in Leppen near Irschen. The sculpture, which is placed between Johannes and Maria, shows Mary's teaching and was made in 1844 by Jakob Kreisenegger. Furthermore, a sculpture of the holy head from the second half of the 18th century, inserted in a niche, hangs on the south wall based on the painted model in the parish church of Klagenfurt-St. Egid . A Pietà from 1846 by Jakob Kreisenegger is attached to the west wall above the organ gallery. The 14 pictures of the Stations of the Cross distributed over the entire nave are from the end of the 18th century. The busts of the apostles on the parapet of the organ loft, painted on metal plates, were painted by Christoph Brandstätter in 1843 and were originally distributed over the entire church interior and served as consecration crosses . Under the organ gallery hangs a picture depicting the glory of St. Dionysius, which was the main picture of the late Baroque high altar erected in the 19th century. Another picture with the 14 helpers was painted by Josef Köfler in 1844. The organ, made in 1998 by Orgelbau Kögler , based on the Baroque model in brown and gold version , has 19 stops , two manuals and a pedal .
During Lent, a Lent cloth painted by Christoph Brandstätter in 1855 covers the Marien Altar and during Holy Week a holy grave , which was created in 1842 by the carpenter Peter Ascher and Christoph Brandstätter, is placed in front of it .
literature
- Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia . Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 324 f.
- The churches and chapels of the parish of Irschen. (= Christian art centers in Austria. N. 422). Verlag St. Peter, Salzburg 2004, pp. 2–13.
Web links
- Parish S. Dionys on erring. (old drawing, colored, pdf; accessed on February 2, 2014)
- Website of the parish of Irschen
Coordinates: 46 ° 45 ′ 22.1 ″ N , 13 ° 1 ′ 28.6 ″ E