Parish Church Launsdorf
The Roman Catholic parish church of Launsdorf in the parish of St. Georgen am Längsee is dedicated to the Assumption of Mary and was first mentioned in a document in 1303.
Building description
The church is essentially a Romanesque choir tower church with Gothic conversions and additions. The Romanesque tower is Gothic on the bell floor and is crowned by a baroque helmet with a lantern and an onion. Lorenz Pez cast a bell in the tower in 1662. The high late Gothic choir from the end of the 15th century is supported by two-tier buttresses . In the northern corner of the choir there is a Gothic sacristy . In the south there is a Gothic chapel with a gable end facing south and a small polygonal apse . The apse hides a leg chamber in the basement and has a turret-like appearance due to the tapered upper floor with a tent roof. The roofs of the church are covered with stone slabs. In the north slope of the choir an early medieval stone head is walled in, on the south wall a memorial stone for Andreas Kasolnig from 1646. In 1983 the baroque porch was removed and the nave was extended. The carved field ceiling was reinserted in the newly built arbor.
In the nave, a low ribbed vault from the second half of the 15th century rests on round wall templates. The keystones in relief depict the Lamb of God and the blessing hand. A pointed triumphal arch connects the nave with the choir tower square. In the Romanesque choir tower square, at the end of the 15th century, an older Gothic vault was replaced by a late Gothic star rib vault and the height of the eastern choir extension that was created at the same time was adjusted. In the one-yoke choir extension with five -eighth closure and three late Gothic two-lane tracery windows , a ribbed vault rises above all round services . The square south chapel and its apse are vaulted with ribs and open to the tower yoke through a pointed arcade. A Gothic portal with an iron plate door leads into the sacristy.
The wall paintings in the tower yoke were made in the 14th century and show Christ in the mandorla and evangelist symbols on the north wall, St. Paul on the south wall and the sacrifice of Cain and Abel in the triumphal arch .
Facility
The high altar with a shrine from 1949 bears an enthroned Madonna carved around 1440 , flanked by the statues of Saints Catherine and Barbara from the end of the 15th century .
The two side altars were made around 1670. The left side altar consists of an aedicule above a base, a blown triangular gable with a small figure as a top and side ears richly decorated with cartilage . The altarpiece shows the Last Supper . The right side altar is similar in structure and decoration to the left and shows St. Lucia on the altar sheet . In the side chapel there is a tabernacle from the mid-18th century and a Madonna from the second half of the 19th century. The parapet of the wooden west gallery was painted with half-length saints in the last quarter of the 18th century, and the late baroque organ was rebuilt after 1800. The holy water font is marked 1644.
Web links
https://www.kath-kirche-kaernten.at/pfarren/pfarre/C3181
literature
- Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia . Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 447 ff.
Coordinates: 46 ° 46 ′ 5.7 ″ N , 14 ° 27 ′ 7.8 ″ E