Reichenfels parish church
The Reichenfels parish church is located in the market town of Reichenfels in the Wolfsberg district in Carinthia . The Roman Catholic parish church consecrated to St. James the Elder belongs to the Wolfsberg deanery in the diocese of Gurk-Klagenfurt . The church and the cemetery with the Karner are under monument protection ( list entry ).
history
A church was documented in 1285. In 1974 the church was restored.
The choir tower church from the first half of the 13th century was changed in the late Gothic and Baroque styles.
architecture
The church is surrounded by a cemetery.
The nave has simple buttresses on the outside. The late Gothic choir with a five-eighth closure has two-tier buttresses on the outside. In the north by the nave is a baroque vestibule from the 17th century and then to the north by the choir is a baroque sacristy extension. The door of the north portal is iron-clad. The late Gothic tower has twin windows with cloverleaf arches to the north and west and a tracery window to the east, the tower has an onion dome around 1800.
The interior of the church shows a three-bay nave with a late Gothic ribbed vault from the end of the 15th century on round wall templates. The window openings of the nave are baroque. The three-axis late Gothic west gallery stands on two octagonal pillars and is vaulted with net ribs. The west gallery is accessed in the north-west corner with a walled spiral staircase. The triumphal arch from the 19th century is ogival. The two-bay choir with a five-eighth end has a late Gothic mesh rib vault, the rib approaches are covered by a layer of plaster from a renovation in the 19th century. The windows in the choir are Gothic tracery windows, the sacrament niche has a Gothic lattice.
Karner
The Karner stands southeast of the church and serves as a war memorial chapel. The Romanesque round building with a stepped oriel apse has a conical roof and a covered staircase. The sculptor Schürmann created the altar.
Furnishing
The high altar from the middle of the 18th century bears the figures of James between Leonhard and Bishop, the tabernacle bears a pelican nourishing its young with its blood.
The font is late Gothic.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Carinthia 2001 . Reichenfels, parish church St. Jakobus major, with floor plan, Karner, castle ruins, townscape. Pp. 674-675.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 0 ′ 26.7 " N , 14 ° 44 ′ 22.8" E