Parish church St. Jakob in the Lesachtal
The Roman Catholic parish church St. Jakob im Lesachtal is surrounded by a cemetery in the village of Sankt Jakob im Lesachtal in the market town of Kötschach-Mauthen in Carinthia . The parish church of St. Jakobus the Elder belongs to the deanery Kötschach in the diocese Gurk-Klagenfurt . The church with the cemetery are under monument protection .
history
A church was mentioned in a document in 1376. The late Gothic church from the beginning of the 16th century was elevated to a parish church in 1688 . 1968 was an interior restoration, 1986 an exterior restoration.
architecture
The four-bay nave with fluted wall pillars with semicircular templates bears a ribbed vault with a rib star cut into the western section with looped ribs and keystones in rosette, quatrefoil and diamond shape and painted with coats of arms. The pointed arched, profiled west portal has a renewed door. Above that there are two pointed arch windows in the western front. In the west yoke there is a late baroque music gallery from the end of the 18th century. In the north wall of the east yoke is a pointed arch portal to the tower. The north tower has a mighty substructure with wall slots, ogival two-line acoustic windows with tracery noses and rosettes. The tower has corner pilasters around 1800. The tower gable and pointed helmet have been renewed and show the year 1876. The pointed arch windows of the nave were glazed in 1957. The nave shows a fresco of Christophorus from the beginning of the 16th century and a painted sundial on the south wall .
The pointed arched and profiled triumphal arch is drawn in. The retracted and lower one-bay choir with a five-eighth end has a ribbed vault on consoles and painted keystones. On the north side of the choir is a late Gothic sacrament niche with a profiled pointed gable frame. In the choir there is a pointed arch portal to the tower. There is a small extension between the tower and the end of the choir. To the south is a pointed arch portal to the attached sacristy. The end of the choir has three pointed arch windows and the tracery is visible from the outside. Two choir closing windows were 1901 with representations of the hll. Peter and Paul glazed.
Furnishing
The high altar from the end of the 18th century bears the late Gothic figures Jakobus, Andreas, Philippus from the beginning of the 16th century and the heavily restored side figures Antonius and Anna. The Way of the Cross reliefs created in 1891 Ferdinand Stuflesser from Val Gardena. The font is neo-Gothic.
The neo-Gothic organ was built by Alois Puetsch in 1914 .
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Carinthia 2001 . St. Jakob im Lesachtal, parish church, p. 739.
Coordinates: 46 ° 40 ′ 59.8 " N , 12 ° 55 ′ 38.7" E