Parish Church Preitenegg
The parish church of Preitenegg is dedicated to St. Nicholas . It is located 1072 meters above sea level on the old packing road in the Preitenegg community . Maria Schell is buried in the cemetery that surrounds the church .
The church was first mentioned in a document in 1288. It was probably a branch of St. Marein in Lavanttal . Preitenegg was made a parish in the 15th century.
Building description
The church is a Romanesque choir tower church , the hall and choir square in the core from the 12th / 13th centuries. Century. The tower, built around 1400, has twin windows from the 19th century and is crowned by a pointed helmet. The oldest bell was cast in the 15th century. The late Gothic choir extension with two-tiered buttresses was added like the sacristy on the south side of the tower at the beginning of the 16th century. The arched west portal and the south portal with a lintel on corbels were built at the beginning of the 16th century.
The window openings in the flat-roofed nave were renewed and an organ gallery was built in in the 19th century. The organ was probably made by Andreas Schwarz around 1720/1730. A late Gothic parallel rib vault rests on consoles in the square of the tower and in the chancel separated from it by a profiled arch .
Facility
Augustin Tallinger created the three altars and the pulpit in 1750.
The high altar in the form of a triumphal arch with a central niche and lateral colonnades fills the choir in width and height. The altar bears St. Nicholas in the middle, flanked by St. Augustine and Wolfgang . These three figures were created by Franz Anton Detl around 1750, while the external sculptures of the princes of the apostles Peter and Paul were created by Alois Progar in 1899. Above the main floor is the coat of arms of Count Schönborn , the owners of the Waldenstein estate at the time . In the essay are the figures of Saints Johannes Nepomuk , Sebastian , Laurentius , Leonhard and Rochus . The archangel Michael forms the end of the altar as a soul weigher on the gable.
The two side altars on the north and south triumphal arch walls each consist of a shrine niche equipped with draperies above a low predella zone with twisted side columns and a swinging entablature zone with the eye of God and two angels on volutes . The left Marian altar contains a Madonna sculpture with a child and above it a Saint Joseph , both from the middle of the 18th century. The right altar bears a statue of the Sacred Heart from 1907 and in the top a St. Florian from the middle of the 18th century.
The parapets of the pulpit show the four evangelists . A representation of the Good Shepherd painted around 1900 can be seen on the rear wall of the pulpit . The conclusion of the sound cover is the figure of Moses with the tablets of the law .
The sculpture of the enthroned Madonna in the window reveal on the south side of the tower yoke was probably created by Franz Anton Detl around 1750. The console figure of Maria Immaculata to the left of the high altar was made in the workshop of Josef Rifesser in 1906. The crucifix on the triumphal arch wall in the tower yoke was made in the middle of the 18th century.
The two large canvas paintings with scenes from the Old and New Testaments as well as the Emmaus meal from the middle of the 18th century are by the painter who also painted the apostles in the Kunigundekirche in Bad St. Leonhard. In the southern tower yoke hang two pictures painted in 1745 with the representation of St. Isidore and his wife Maria. In the nave you can see the pictures of Saint Francis Seraph , Charles Borromeo and Saint Francis Xavier from the second half of the 18th century on the gallery parapet .
literature
- Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia. Revised edition, 3rd, expanded and improved edition, edited by Gabriele Russwurm-Biró. Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 649 f.
- Barbara Kienzl : The baroque pulpits in Carinthia (= The Carinthian State Archive. Vol. 13). Verlag des Kärntner Landesarchivs, Klagenfurt 1986, ISBN 3-900531-16-1 , p. 347 f.
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Coordinates: 46 ° 56 ′ 21 ″ N , 14 ° 55 ′ 28 ″ E