Liemberg parish church

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Liemberg parish church
Beheading of St. Catherine

The parish church of Liemberg in the municipality of Liebenfels , a market town in the district of Sankt Veit ( Carinthia ), is consecrated to James the Elder . The last mass of the four-mountain run is read in it.

history

The church was first mentioned in a document in 1285 and elevated to parish church in 1304 .

During the Reformation, pastor Leonhard Grebitscher changed from the Catholic to the Protestant faith. In 1579, the Gurk Cathedral Provost Karl Grimming was prevented from entering the church by Margarete von Feistritz, who was then the owner of Liemberg Castle . Which is why he had to read mass in the cemetery with the help of a carrying altar. In addition, there were physical disputes between the supporters of the cathedral provost and the lady of the castle. In 1583 a bell with the portraits of Philipp Melanchthon and Martin Luther was cast for the church , the rich medieval furnishings of the church, however, were destroyed or painted over and only partially exposed again in 1966. In 1600, in the course of the Counter-Reformation, Leonhard Grebitscher's successor was expelled from the country as a Protestant preacher .

Building

The church is essentially a Romanesque building, but it has been changed several times. The tower, which connects to the north of the eastern nave yoke, is crowned with an eight-sided pointed helmet and has partially coupled soundproof windows. The bell was cast by Urban Fiering in 1514. The late medieval architectural polychromy of the tower was restored during the last exterior restoration. The sacristy is added to the south of the eastern nave yoke . The retracted Gothic choir is supported by buttresses. The west facade, created in 1783, has a curved gable and an orientalizing window opening. Roman epitaphs for the local people Sammus and Coetia are immured on the eastern outer wall.

Inside, the nave is divided into a western barrel-vaulted yoke with stitch caps from the middle of the 19th century and two further yokes with stucco ridges from the first half of the 16th century, which rest on wall pillars. A pointed arched portal with late Gothic door fittings and a mask ring leads into the groin vaulted sacristy. The round-arched triumphal arch over the mantelpiece connects the nave with the choir with Gothic groin vaults. To the north of the choir with a 5/8 end there is a groin-vaulted side chapel.

In the eastern choir window with tracery noses, late Gothic glass windows from the second quarter of the 15th century are set, showing the Man of Sorrows and St. James.

Frescoes

The evangelist symbols depicted in the choir vault date from the second half of the 15th century, the surface of the painted sacrament house with the Annunciation Mary on the northern slope of the choir is badly damaged. The frescoes on the triumphal arch and the triumphal arch wall are also poorly preserved; they show the sacrifice of Cain and Abel and the Last Judgment and were probably made in the 14th century. In contrast, the frescoes on the north on the triumphal arch wall, which were painted in the second quarter of the 15th century, are well preserved; they represent the Beheading of Saint Catherine of Alexandria and St. Dorothea , and about a donor group. This donor group was created in 1440 by John of Ljubljana, which with their children and inter alia the founding family, the Gragenegger as Prior in the Cistercian monastery Viktring make Uncle pictured. Saints Catherine and Dorothea are likely namesake of family members. The scythe in the coat of arms allegedly indicates that when the Duke of Carinthia was appointed, they had the right to mow everywhere on unfamiliar land and thus to document that the country was peaceless without a legitimate ruler.

Furnishing

The middle picture of the baroque high altar shows the saints of the plague, Sebastian and Rochus , below it, Saints Karl Borromeo and Aloysius, and at the bottom, lying in a grotto, Saint Rosalia . The central picture is flanked by the sculptures of St. Roch and an unknown bishop, dated around 1520. In the niche is a baroque Maria Immaculate from the first half of the 18th century.

A crucifix from the second half of the 18th century hangs above the side altar south of the triumphal arch, next to it are the baroque figures of St. James minor and another apostle.

The baptismal group from the mid-18th century stands on a wooden tower above the octagonal baptismal font from the 17th century.

Carl Friedrich Grimming's coat of arms grave slab marked 1670 is embedded in the church wall.

literature

  • Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia . Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , pp. 463-465.
  • Alexander Hanisch- Wolfram: On the trail of the Protestants in Carinthia . Verlag Johannes Heyn, Klagenfurt 2010, ISBN 978-3-7084-0392-2 , p. 86 f.
  • Wilhelm Wadl: "The four-mountain run. History - meaning - process". Verlag Johannes Heyn, Klagenfurt 2003, ISBN 3-7084-0011-9 , p. 23 f.

Web links

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Coordinates: 46 ° 45 ′ 5 ″  N , 14 ° 13 ′ 57.9 ″  E