Parish Church of Saak

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Parish Church of St. Kanzian in Saak
Michor's tomb
Former rectory

The parish Saak is a Kanziankirche the diocese Gurk in Nötscher district Saak. The church, cemetery and rectory are listed. The Windische Kapelle on the Dobratsch has been a branch church of Saak since 1760 .

Building description

The late Gothic church has a slightly recessed choir with a lower tower in the northern corner. The nave is divided to the north and south by double-stepped buttresses and two pointed arch windows. There are six double-stepped buttresses on the choir. In the end there are three two-part lancet windows with original tracery ; in the southern choir wall two simple pointed arch windows. In the baroque era , a small sacristy was added to the north with an iron door to the east. The closed vestibule with a large arched portal is more recent. A baroque chapel of the Holy Sepulcher connects to the south .

graveyard

The church is surrounded by a cemetery , the wall of which encloses the church. At the cemetery there is a baroque crucifix and to the south of the choir of the church there is Anton Kolig's tomb . A tombstone for Franz Wiegele is set in the cemetery wall. On the south wall of the nave of the church is Michor's tomb with a wall painting by Anton Kolig from 1929, dominated by a seated Madonna and Child surrounded by four standing angels.

Rectory

The former rectory was built in 1757 by Johann Andrä Semler Baron zu Scharfenstein. It is a two-story building covered with a hipped roof. On the east and west facade there are plasters from the turn of the century. Inside, several rooms are equipped with stucco field ceilings . In addition, the building still has door leaves, box locks and wooden floors from the time it was built.

Web links

Commons : Parish Church of Heiliger Kanzian (Nötsch)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia. Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 701.
  2. ^ Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia. Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 700.
  3. ^ Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia. Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 702.

Coordinates: 46 ° 35 ′ 28.4 "  N , 13 ° 37 ′ 37.4"  E