Parish church Möchling

The Roman Catholic parish church in Möchling in the municipality of Gallizien is consecrated to St. Paul . 1123 gave the Spanheimer Duke Henry IV. The Monastery of St. Paul in the Lavant Valley , the Good Möchling including the church. In 1206 Möchling / Mohliče was recognized as a parish.

Building

The church is a medium-sized, late Gothic building with a three-bay nave and a two-bay choir with a three-eighth end. The mighty, presented west tower is almost as wide as the nave and has two and three-part acoustic windows. It is crowned by an eight-sided pointed gable helmet. A coat of arms of a sound window is marked with 156 (?). Lorenz Pez cast a bell in 1666. On the west side of the tower there is a baroque vestibule with a holy water font from 1521. You enter the church through a pointed arch portal marked 1514. The cross-rib vaulted tower ground floor is open to the nave.

In the nave, there are mesh ribs laid over the vault on heraldic consoles from the early 16th century. The west gallery is arched by a pressed short barrel . Under the gallery balustrade is a quatrefoil walled secondary. The south side chapel has a groin vault from the middle of the 17th century. The wide, pointed triumphal arch is dated 1553. The choir in the width and height of the nave is vaulted with net ribs. A Gothic arched portal leads into the northern sacristy . In the choir there is a late Gothic tabernacle on a square pillar with a base, as well as a late Gothic baptismal font with a maker's mark .

Facility

The late baroque high altar and the two side altars were built in the third quarter of the 18th century. The altar sheet shows the fall of Paul. To the side are the figures of the princes of the apostles Peter and Paul, above the doors of the sacrificial corridors are the slightly reworked, late Gothic statues of St. Catherine and Barbara from the last quarter of the 15th century. On the right side altar is a statue of a holy bishop from the same period.

The chapel altar from 1665 consists of a shrine-like structure with three niches above a small preach-like base and a blown triangular gable with an ornamental filling of small niches and vases and twisted shafts with vine tendrils. The two pillars on the main floor serve as pedestals for small figures. The center of the altar is a Pietà relief carved around 1530 , flanked by the figures of holy bishops. In the essay there is a man of sorrows from the end of the 15th century. In addition, there are two late Gothic, baroque revised statues on the altar depicting St. Leonhard and a holy bishop.

The pulpit was built in 1728.

Möchlinger Shrine

In the side chapel there was a wooden shrine in the form of a Gothic church above the two meter high burial chamber of Alboin († 975), Hildegard von Stein 's husband . A monk carved the shrine from limewood in the first half of the 15th century. In 1874 the shrine was sold for 4,000 guilders to the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna to finance a school building , where it disappeared without a trace in the last days of the war in 1945. At the place of the shrine, a marble inscription and a reliquary made by the potter Michael Struggl and the master potter Paul Struggl were placed in 1874. During investigations, skeletal remains of several people and a spur from the 15th century were found in the grave.

literature

• Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia . Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 554 f.
• Wilhelm Deuer: Jauntaler Kulturwanderungen - An art-historical companion through the Völkermarkt district. Verlag Johannes Heyn, Klagenfurt 2001, ISBN 3-85366-977-8 , p. 48.

Coordinates: 46 ° 35 ′ 14.4 "  N , 14 ° 30 ′ 53.9"  E