Parish church of St. Gertraud in Lavanttal

The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Gertraud in Lavanttal in the municipality of Frantschach-Sankt Gertraud is an originally Romanesque building, which was extended in 1963/1964 by a large hall building on the south side and thereby northward. The church, first mentioned in 1289, was raised to a parish in 1539.

Building description

The tower with ogival sound openings and a round stair tower in the southwest, which was in front of the original nave, is crowned by a pyramid helmet. The crossed west portal with quatrefoil in the tympanum is marked with 1526 on the corbel . The old church building is supported by two- and three-tier buttresses . In the south facade of the new nave is a large, rectangular window, including a portal with drifting work made of sheet brass on the wing doors. Both were created by Hubert Hochleitner in 1963/1964. The windows on the east and west sides have colored glass panes.

Inside, the flat-roofed hall from 1963 is structured by five slim concrete columns. The south wall of the Gothic nave was broken through with a pointed arch. In the three-bay, former nave, which today serves as a chancel, a mesh vault rests on circular services , which are reinforced in the capital zone and provided with tartsches . On the west side, a pointed arch arcade leads to the rib-vaulted tower ground floor, which today houses a baptistery. The former, one-bay choir with ribbed vaults and three-eighth closure now serves as a chapel.

A votive picture from 1616 has been preserved on the south wall of the old building . The late Baroque frescoes of Saints Catherine and Magdalena painted around 1420 were transferred to the west wall of the new building.

Facility

A life-size wooden crucifix from the end of the 17th century is attached to the altar wall . Two Gothic stone consoles marked 1526 and 1537 with stonemason's mark were transferred to the new choir arch. On it are the wooden figures of St. Gertrude and the Apostle Bartholomew made around 1500 . On Ambo are around 1890 resulting neo-Gothic mounted relief figures. The church also features a late Gothic statue of the Madonna from the end of the 15th century.

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. 736 f.

Coordinates: 46 ° 52 ′ 14.7 "  N , 14 ° 52 ′ 38"  E