Parish church of St. Daniel in the Gailtal
The parish church of St. Daniel in the Gailtal in the municipality of Dellach , Carinthia , Austria is considered the original parish of the upper Gailtal and the Lesach valley .
According to an inscription, the church was built in 1054, but based on excavations it is believed that the first church was built around 250 years earlier as the private church of the Patriarch of Aquileia. In 1478 the Turks destroyed the church.
Until 1751 the parish of St. Daniel belonged to the Patriarchate of Aquileja , then briefly to the Archdiocese of Gorizia and finally from 1786 to the Diocese of Gurk .
Building description
The church is a Baroque style late Gothic facility from the last quarter of the 15th century. Triangular buttresses support the retracted choir with three-eighth end, the nave is supported by double-stepped struts. The poorly preserved world court fresco on the south wall was painted by Urban Görtschacher in 1510/1515 . The tower north of the choir probably still consists partly of Romanesque masonry. It has three-part arched sound windows and a baroque onion helmet. Adam Sterzer cast a bell in 1608. South of the choir is a two-storey baroque sacristy extension with an oratory on the upper storey. A Roman epitaph for Cornelius (?) Acutus is walled in on the south side. Both the pointed arched, profiled west portal in a rectangular frame field and the pointed arched, profiled south portal have iron doors from the 18th century.
In the four-bay nave, a ribbed vault rises above chamfered pillars with semicircular templates. The round and square keystones are painted with half-figures and coats of arms. The painted tendrils are from the end of the 15th century. The nave is illuminated by three lancet windows on the south side, which were newly glazed in 1926, and an enlarged window in the west yoke. Stucco coats of arms and angels are attached to the vaulted organ bay of the gallery. The organ was built around 1840.
A retracted, pointed triumphal arch connects the nave and the retracted two-bay choir with a three-eighth end. A baroque shallow barrel with stitch caps rests on Corinthian pilasters above the choir . The painting in the choir vault from the 19th century shows the Transfiguration on Mount Tabor .
Facility
Alois Valentin created the high altar in 1902 based on a design by Hans Pascher in the neo-renaissance style . In 1904 Alois Valentin made the side altars and the pulpit. The figures on the high altar and the side altars as well as the pulpit relief were created by Michael Gasslitter in 1902–1904.
The central niche of the high altar contains the plastic representation of the prophet Daniel in the lions' den, the side niches contain the princes of the apostles Peter and Paul . In the top niche, the Holy Trinity can be seen, the crown of the altar is the carved sculpture of Christ enthroned.
The left side altar bears a figure of Mary, flanked by Saints Joachim and Anna , the right side altar shows Saint Joseph with child next to Saints Antonius and Florian . The reliefs on the pulpit represent the four evangelists .
A neo-Gothic group of guardian angels is placed in the wall niche of the choir . The church also features a late baroque crucifixion group on the north wall of the nave, late baroque pictures of the stations of the cross and a baptismal font from the second half of the 17th century.
literature
- Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia . Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 718 f.
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Coordinates: 46 ° 39 ′ 46.2 ″ N , 13 ° 3 ′ 17.6 ″ E