Parish Church of Klein St. Paul
The Roman Catholic parish church of Klein St. Paul is located in the market town of Klein St. Paul in the Görtschitztal, Carinthia . She is the St. Consecrated to Paul .
history
The first mention of the church Klein St. Paul by name comes from the year 1062 as Capella S. Pauli in Hornburuch in a document of the Archdiocese of Salzburg . In 1077 the church came into the possession of the Count Palatine Aribo II of Bavaria and in 1211 it was elevated to a parish church. In 1444 the Benedictine order of the St. Paul Abbey in Lavanttal took over the patronage of the parish church. Since 1974 Klein St. Paul has been an independent parish of the Diocese of Gurk .
Building description
The late Gothic hall church with a Romanesque core has a steep gable roof. The mighty tower with a modern pointed helmet stands south of the choir. To the north is a Gothic chapel, now a baptistery. The interior consists of a single nave with a baroque flat ceiling. The paintings and sculptures have numerous references to the Benedictine order. The late baroque high altar is dedicated to St. Consecrated to Paul.
In 1994 interior restoration work took place with the artist Werner Hofmeister and the architect Felix Graf Orsini-Rosenberg . On the initiative of the parish, modern sacred art is shown in the church with partly changing objects. The permanent furnishings include a fresco by Switbert Lobisser and sculptures by Werner Hofmeister and the artist duo 1000 & .
literature
- Matthis Kapeller (ed.): Churches, monasteries and culture. Meeting rooms in Carinthia. Carinthia, Klagenfurt 2001, ISBN 3-85378-539-5 , pp. 98-99.
- Christine Tropper: On the history of the parishes in the market town of Klein St. Paul. In: Wilhelm Wald and Thomas Zeloth (eds), Heimatbuch Klein St. Paul. Nature, history, present. Verlag des Kärntner Landesarchiv, Klagenfurt 2005, ISBN 3-900531-60-9 , pp. 105–115.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tropper 2005, p. 106
Coordinates: 46 ° 50 ′ 10 ″ N , 14 ° 32 ′ 29 ″ E