Parish church Möllbrücke
The Roman Catholic parish church Möllbrücke in the municipality of Lurnfeld is consecrated to St. Leonhard . The former fortified church was first mentioned in a document in 1499.
Building description
The church is a late Gothic complex from the 15th century. It consists of a two-bay nave and a retracted, single - bay choir with a five-eighth end . Double stepped buttresses support the end of the choir. At the nave there are single-stepped buttresses, the western of which are placed across the corner. The mighty tower stands in the southern corner of the choir. It has a rectangular, beveled sacristy window, wall slits in four storeys and ogival sound windows from 1527. It is structured by cornices above the base zone and below the bell storey and crowned with a pyramid helmet. The tower staircase is housed in the small turret extension between the tower and the nave. The round arched west portal with round bar profiling and cantilevered door lintel is surrounded by a rectangular frame field. To the right of the portal is a small, square window, above it two round windows. The shooting hatches on the west wall testify to the former strength of the church. In the end of the choir and in the south wall of the nave, two-part lancet windows with the original tracery have been preserved. The Gothic south portal has a door with a Gothic lock and wrought iron fittings. In 1996 remains of Gothic frescoes by a founder and a bearded saint, probably St. Leonhard, were uncovered. Another depiction of St. Leonhard was created by Switbert Lobisser in 1926 on the south wall of the tower.
In the nave, a simple star rib vault rests on fluted wall pillars with semicircular templates. The late Gothic gallery is vaulted with star ribs and rests on three pointed arched, profiled pillar arcades. The gallery parapet has openwork ribbed tracery. On the gallery front there are statue consoles with foliage capitals . The year 1473 and a maker's mark identical to the one in the branch church in Presseggen are affixed to a console . The late Gothic portal with a straight lintel in the southeast corner of the nave provides access to the tower stairs. A pointed arched, profiled triumphal arch connects the nave with the choir. In the choir, which is divided by a surrounding cornice at the height of the window sill, a ribbed vault rises above delicate grooved wall templates. In the end of the choir there are two large arched wall niches with a grooved frame. From the south wall of the choir, a profiled pointed arch portal with a late Gothic, iron-studded door leads into the sacristy on the tower ground floor. A tower window can be seen above.
Facility
The high altar is a late Gothic winged altar , which was probably built in an Upper Carinthian carving studio after 1510. The carvings show Tyrolean influence (Pacher workshop) , Otto Demus attributed the paintings to the master Nikolaus von Bruneck. The central figure of Saint Leonhard in the shrine is flanked by the figures of the plague saints Sebastian and Rochus . The reliefs on the inside of the wing represent the saints Erasmus and Ruprecht . The outside of the wings are painted with the saints Wolfgang , Heinrich , Kunigunde and Martin . The painted back of the shrine shows St. Christopher and the holy deacons Stephen and Laurentius . In conversation narrow a stand Sorrows , the Virgin Mary and the Apostle John . The predella is empty. The carved reliefs of two angels can be seen on the open predelle wings and the paintings of Saints Maria Magdalena , Helena , Elisabeth and Afra on the outside . Saints George and Florian serve as the shrine guardians .
The left side altar was created in 1781 by the sculptor Mathias Überbacher. The altarpiece of the betrothal, painted by Heinrich Obexer , is flanked by the statues of her parents Joachim and Anna .
The right side altar from 1654, decorated with cartilage, consists of an aedicula on a base and an essay that was probably added in the 18th century. The middle picture shows St. Anthony of Padua in front of the Mother of God with baby Jesus. The top picture shows Maria with her parents.
The rococo pulpit from the third quarter of the 18th century is carved with symbols of the evangelists . The six-seat choir stalls on the north wall of the choir are decorated with branches in bas-relief and are labeled “Andre Kamper 1507”. A console statue of St. Laurence from around 1420/1430 is placed above the choir stalls. In the choir is the lower part of a late Gothic tunnel cabinet made around 1500. Next to the pulpit hangs a crucifix carved around 1500. To the side are the carved statues of Saints Franz Xavier and Johannes Nepomuk from 1740. In the window under the gallery is the figure of Saint Leonhard, carved around 1420.
literature
- Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia . Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 559 f.
- Gottfried Biedermann and Karin Leitner: Gothic in Carinthia - With photos by Wim van der Kallen. Carinthia Verlag, Klagenfurt 2001, ISBN 3-85378-521-2 , p. 128 f.
- Barbara Kienzel, Wilhelm Deuer: "Renaissance in Carinthia - With a contribution by Eckart Vancsa". Carinthia Verlag, Klagenfurt 1996, ISBN 3-85378-438-0 , p. 89.
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Coordinates: 46 ° 49 ′ 54.8 " N , 13 ° 22 ′ 6.3" E