Parish Church of Kraig
The parish church of Kraig in the village of the same name in the Frauenstein parish is dedicated to John the Baptist .
The church was first mentioned between 1216 and 1218 and was a patronage church of the Kraig rule. A collegiate monastery with four canons and a provost was founded in Kraig by the middle of the 14th century at the latest . During the Reformation, Kraig was a center of Protestantism .
The church complex, consisting of the church, a free-standing tower and a chapel, is surrounded by a formerly fortified cemetery wall with high lining walls in the south and west. All three buildings are covered with stone slabs.
church
The late Gothic hall church is crowned by a roof turret with an onion helmet. Three-tiered buttresses support the 14th century choir, whose tracery windows are walled up. A two-storey sacristy is built on the north side of the choir . On the northeast corner of the sacristy is a Roman epitaph for the local couple Memetomarus and Epatia. In the gable of the west facade there are loopholes . The pillared vestibule, built around 1590, is vaulted by two transverse barrels with stitch caps and stands on five outer and three inner Tuscan columns. In the vestibule there are stone tables on profiled Renaissance consoles . You enter the church through a Renaissance portal from 1589 with marble walls and a straight roof. The iron plate door has late Gothic fittings from the 15th century.
The nave was transformed into a three-aisled, three-bay hall in the 16th century by adding the north aisle . The late Gothic ribbed vault rests on slender octagonal pillars. The late Gothic west gallery was moved into the central nave in the baroque period and provided with a wooden dock railing . The cross-rib vaulted single-bay choir with a five-eighth end has the width of the central nave. The sacrament niche from the 15th century in the choir is closed by a rosette grille. An oratorio is located above the groin-vaulted sacristy .
Facility
The high altar, created around 1760 and attributed to Johann Pacher , has a carved group of the baptism of Christ on the main floor , flanked by Saints Zacharias and Joachim , as well as the figure of God the Father in the top , surrounded by Saints Elizabeth and Anna .
A Madonna from the middle of the 18th century stands on the left side altar.
The pulpit made after 1788 is attributed to Johann Georg Hittinger . Between two seated figures of saints, a relief with the sower can be seen on the pulpit, and a relief with the Good Shepherd on the back wall of the pulpit . The two figures on the sound cover symbolize the Christian virtues of faith and hope, behind them is Moses with the tablets of the law . It is assumed that the pulpit was originally designed differently around a group of figures with the Transfiguration of Christ on the sound cover, to which Moses and the two figures on the pulpit belonged, whereas the figures of the virtues were attached to the pulpit.
The console statues of Saints Johann Nepomuk and Anthony of Padua from the third quarter of the 18th century are also attributed to Johann Pacher's workshop.
Numerous tombstones of nobles and clergy are walled into the church walls. The oldest grave slab of Wilhelm I von Kraig dates from the end of the 13th century.
tower
The tower on the rising mountainside north of the church is a fortified tower from the 15th century with key notches , acoustic windows decorated with tracery and pointed helmet . The original entrance was a round arched gate on the upper floor. In the low extension on the south side there is a stone relief of a crucifixion from the beginning of the 16th century, which probably comes from a wayside shrine .
chapel
The chapel below the parish church is dedicated to St. Ulrich and is now used as a funeral hall. The late Gothic building from the 15th century with a retracted square choir, high, pointed roof turret and pointed arched, profiled west portal has a barrel vault with mesh ribs in the nave and a cross rib vault in the choir .
literature
- Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia . Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 422 f.
- Barbara Kienzl , Wilhelm Deuer: Renaissance in Carinthia - With a contribution by Eckart Vancsa. Carinthia Verlag, Klagenfurt 1996, ISBN 3-85378-438-0 , p. 163.
- Barbara Kienzl: The baroque pulpits in Carinthia. Publishing house of the Kärntner Landesarchiv, Klagenfurt 1986, ISBN 3-900531-16-1 , p. 311.
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Coordinates: 46 ° 48 ′ 48.8 ″ N , 14 ° 22 ′ 2.9 ″ E