Parish church Loibltal

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The parish church Loibltal stands elevated above the floor of the Loibltal on Loiblstraße in the municipality of Ferlach and is consecrated to St. Leonhard .

Building description

The neo-Gothic church from 1859 is a single-nave building with a retracted polygonal choir and a western facade tower crowned with a pointed helmet. The church has corbel portals in the west and south-east . In the three-bay nave, a groin vault rests on pillars, and the choir with a five-eighth end is also groin-vaulted.

Facility

The neo-Gothic interior was created by Mathias Slama around 1900. The high altar is made in the style of the early Gothic. In the niches on the main floor there are panels with Saints Leonhard, Laurentius and Thomas . In conversation Enge a is crucifix with Leiden tools and laterally the statues of Heilands and Madonna mounted. In the niches of the right side altar are the figures of the Madonna, St. Joseph and the Evangelist John , the latter two of which were made around 1902 in a workshop in Val Gardena . On the altar bar there is a cast stone cross from 1580. The half-reliefs of the four evangelists can be seen on the neo-Gothic pulpit .

literature

  • Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia . Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 476.

Coordinates: 46 ° 27 ′ 51.9 ″  N , 14 ° 15 ′ 26 ″  E