Parish Church of St. Jakob ob Gurk

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The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Jakob ob Gurk is 1017 meters above sea level in the hamlet of St. Jakob ob Gurk in the municipality of Strasbourg . The church, first mentioned in 1169, was a branch of Gurk for a long time and only became a parish church in 1787.

History & building description

The church is essentially a Romanesque building that has been rebuilt and expanded several times. The church is first mentioned in 1169 as Capella sancti Jakobi in Monte . But the church square will be older. The area around St. Jakob lies in the area of ​​the foundation of Countess Hemma von Gurk for the bishopric built in 1072. It can be assumed that “a church was built in every large courtyard for its residents”, which stood in the center of the courtyard. At this time, paganism from the Karantan period in the country should not have completely disappeared. The existence of an early Christian church from the time before 500 is unlikely, as the place is not directly on a Roman road . In 1269 it is mentioned again as a church consecrated to the pilgrim saint James the Elder . Around a dozen places in Carinthia are named after this patron saint . There is also a mention of 1500. Until it was raised as a curate ( quasi-parish ) in 1787, the church was a branch church of Gurk. The interior was restored in 1972/73.

South side of the church
Former rectory

The nave and the retracted square choir have baroque flat ceilings. The round-arched triumphal arch has combatant cornices . In 1787 the elevation to the curate took place and in the same year the nave was extended to the west, the sacristy was added on the south side and the late baroque vestibule tower was built. The nave was lengthened, which "stretched the building unduly and lost its proportions." During this renovation, the Romanesque round windows were replaced by larger straight windows. In 1789 the new cemetery was consecrated and a modest rectory was built. The onion helmet was not restored until the 1970 restoration. Before that, the tower had a rather unsightly pyramid roof with a protruding cornice. The original onion roof had fallen victim to a fire.

Former Messnerhaus

The bell, which was consecrated by the Gurk cathedral provost Karl von Grimming in 1576, is attributed to the Völkermarkt master Benedikt Fiering (1560–1591), of whom other bells have been preserved in Carinthia. It is very rare that information about the purchase of bells from that period has survived. In 1938 the bell was still in the tower and must have been removed as part of the war metal collection from World War II.

On the list of listed buildings of the Austrian Federal Monuments Office are the Catholic parish church of St. Jakob and cemetery (Sankt Jakob 3) as well as the rectory (Sankt Jakob 6) are listed.

Facility

Cemetery, view to Jakober

The artistically insignificant high altar from the end of the 18th century shows James the Elder on the altar panel from the 19th century . Two associated images above the sacrificial passage portals show the coronation of Mary and the descent of the Holy Spirit . In the essay niche Petrus and Johannes Evangelista. Above the side pictures there are statues of Saint Florian and Wolfgang and next to the pillars of the main picture there are Sacred Heart and Mary statues. Outside on the walls there are statues of St. Anthony the Hermit and St. Anthony of Padua. The parapet of the baroque pulpit from the late 17th century is now used as a popular altar . Above this north side altar with a tabernacle from the 19th century flanked by angels hangs a remarkable relief depicting the coronation of Mary. The pulpit, now used as an ambo , is simple and shows images of the evangelists. In St. Jakob there was a late Gothic altar wing, which was in the then Diocesan Museum in Klagenfurt around 1991 . Armor from the time of the Turkish wars has been preserved in the sacristy . There was a late Baroque statuette of St. Joseph, a statue of the Mother of God with a child on a crescent moon (around 1729) and statues of holy pilgrims (around 1700). A late Gothic carved figure of St. Leonhard belonging to the church was made around 1440 and is, like the other old art objects, in good safekeeping.

War memorial

Today's organ was built in 1890 by Franz Grafenauer from Egg . Even before that there was an organ with four registers in St. Jakob . A note found in the gaming table reads: At the instigation of the most revered Mr. P. Valentin Nemec u. Dr. the theology dean of Gurk was this organ work with the participation of the Hochw. Chaplains Ludwig Pirker u. Stefan Ogertschnig u. of the eager parishioner Mr. Thomas Krall vlg. Soldernig built in Schneßnitz. A special benefactor is Mr. Gregor Erlacher [to be named]. The original tin prospect pipes had to be handed in to the metal collections during World War I in 1917. The electrification of the fan is likely to have taken place after 1986. Manual: Gedackt 8 ', Flute 8', Salicional 8 ', Octave 4', Octave 2 'Pedal: attached.

graveyard

The cemetery is on the western side of the church. To the right of the entrance on the cemetery wall is the war memorial , consisting of two roofed natural stone slabs with the names of those who fell in both world wars. Fallen also came from the hamlets of Schneßnitz, Gassarest, Mitterdorf, Pölling and St. Peter.

graveyard

The south-east facing cemetery cross of St. Jakob is the place at the cemetery where prayers are made before the grave blessing on All Saints' Day and on Quatember Sundays. The cross was probably erected at the same time as the cemetery was erected in 1789. In 1902 the farmer Valentin Mitterdorfer had a new cross erected, the Christ of which came from South Tyrolean woodcarvers from Val Gardena . It was inaugurated on May 25, 1902 by parish provisional Father Leopold Grünwald. In 1975 the cross was restored and moved to the western cemetery wall. In 1993 the cemetery cross overturned as a result of a storm and was then repaired again.

Cemetery and upper Jakober-Stadl

In the cemetery wall there is a Latin inscription from the grave of the (new) builder of the Jakober-Hof: This is where Mathaeus Mitterdorfer, the best of all fathers, who instructed his sons in the virtues of religion as well as the muse, is the best spouse Father of the poor, benefactor of the local church and builder of the house next to her. Died at the age of 41 on May 24, 1805.

Known priests by name

Grave at the cemetery

The first curate from 1787 was Jakob Egger. Since there was still no vicarage, he had to live in a farmhouse. Around 1824 , the provisional officer Anton Balthasar worked in the St. Jakob ob Gurk Kurazie, which belongs to the Gurk Dean's Office . Pastor Raimund Kaiser was very interested in biological and meteorological phenomena. From 1854 to 1862 he described the climate in St. Jakob in detail. In the spring of 1857 he reported a massive occurrence of snow fleas or he reported the observation of a book scorpion on a fly. In 1894 Father Karl Josef Strasser became chaplain in Gurk and at the same time provisional parish of St. Jakob ob Gurk. In 1947 Florentius Leicht was named as pastor in St. Jakob. Prelate Thomas Holmar, who died in 2003 and was considered the oldest Carinthian priest at the age of 98, was in St. Jakob in the 1940s. The Gurk monastery pastor Gerhard Christoph Kalidz is currently provisional in St. Jakob and Zweinitz.

literature

  • Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia . Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 738.
  • Siegfried Hartwagner : Carinthia. The St. Veit an der Glan district. His works of art, historical forms of life and settlement. Austrian art monograph Volume VIII. St. Peter, Salzburg 1977, ISBN 3-900173-22-2 , p. 182 (288 pp.).

Web links

Commons : Parish Church of St. Jakob und Friedhof, Strasbourg (Carinthia)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Institute for Austrian Art Research of the Federal Monuments Office (Hrsg.): DEHIO-Kärnten. The art monuments of Austria - Carinthia. Based on the preliminary work by Karl Ginhart, reworked by Ernst Bacher , Ilse Freisen, Geza Hajos, Wolfram Helke, Elisabeth Herzig, Horst R. Huber, Margarete Mirgacs, Jörg Oberhaidacher, Elisabeth Reichmann-Endres, Margareta Vyoral-Tschapka, with a contribution by Gernot Piccottini . Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1976, ISBN 3-7031-0400-7 , p. 539 (848 pp.).
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  3. ↑ Walther Fresacher: The development of the Gurk core area. Ed .: Carinthia I. 161st year. Announcements of the history association for Carinthia , Klagenfurt 1971, p. 77-93, here: 81 (346 p.).
  4. ^ Strasbourg and surroundings. The episcopal city of Strasbourg and its surroundings, its history, its churches and its historical buildings. Strasbourg Catholic Parish and Parish Council, accessed on 11 December 2019 .
  5. ^ Austrian Academy of Sciences: Historical Atlas of the Austrian Alpine Countries, Part 2, Edition 8 .. Holzhausen, 1958 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  6. ↑ Well recognizable on a photograph from 1930. St. Jakob ob Gurk, Carinthia, District Authority St. Veit. Image archive Austria . The picture platform of the Austrian National Library, 1930, accessed on November 25, 2019 .
  7. ^ Friedrich Wilhelm Leitner: Notes on the bell inscriptions in the St. Veit ad Glan district . In: Landesmuseum Kärnten (Ed.): Rudolfinum. Yearbook of the State Museum for Carinthia . tape 2000 , 2001, pp. 125–137 ( PDF on ZOBODAT [accessed November 1, 2019]).
  8. ↑ The inscriptions of the federal state of Carinthia - Part 2. The inscriptions of the political district of St. Veit an der Glan. Entry 496 St. Jakob ob Gurk (Strasbourg), Pfk. St. Jacob 1576 . In: Volume 65, Vienna Series, Volume 2. Academies of Sciences in Düsseldorf, Göttingen, Heidelberg, Leipzig, Mainz, Munich and the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna, 2008, accessed on November 28, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Ordinance St. Veit an der Glan (PDF). BDA Federal Monuments Office , accessed on December 11, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Otto Demus : The late Gothic altars of Carinthia . Ed .: History Association for Carinthia . Klagenfurt 2003, ISBN 3-85454-070-1 , p. 437 .
  11. ^ Photograph from 1930. St. Jakob ob Gurk, Carinthia, District Commission St. Veit. Image archive Austria . The picture platform of the Austrian National Library, 1930, accessed on November 25, 2019 .
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  13. ^ Gabriel Isenberg: ST. JAKOB OB GURK - improvisation on the tone G. YouTube , 2004, accessed on November 16, 2019 .
  14. ↑ St. Jakob ob Gurk, Strasbourg municipality, St. Veit an der Glan district, Carinthia, Austria. Postal code 9341. Online project memorials to the fallen. By genealogists for genealogists. Retrieved November 16, 2019 .
  15. ↑ St. Jakob ob Gurk cemetery cross. Kärntner Bildungswerk, accessed on November 16, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Karl Burkart: The house lawyer in Gurk, its owners who Domstiftanwälte and Domstiftsekretäre. Ed .: Carinthia I. 177th year. Announcements of the history association for Carinthia , Klagenfurt 1987, p. 361-402, here 397 (527 p.).
  17. ↑ Schematism of the diocese Gurkischen Kirchensprengels with the beginning of the military year 1824. Klagenfurt, printed by Johann Leon's blessed heirs. ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  18. ↑ Johann Prettner: The climate of Carinthia based on observations made at 42 observation stations. (Specially reprinted from the yearbook of the Natural and Historical State Museum of Carinthia XI). Klagenfurt, printed by Ferdinand von Kleinmayr, 1872, 224 pages, here pp. 45–48 (old page) ( entry Digitalna knjižnica Slovenije , article pdf , both dlib.si ), accessed on November 7, 2019.
  19. ↑ Franz Löw: About some beetles found in southern fruits and the appearance of a snow flea in Carinthia . In: Negotiations of the Zoological-Botanical Society in Vienna . 1858, p. 561–566 ( PDF on ZOBODAT [accessed November 7, 2019]).
  20. ↑ Franz Löw: Zoological Notes . In: Negotiations of the Zoological-Botanical Society in Vienna . 1867, p. 745–752 ( PDF on ZOBODAT [accessed November 7, 2019]).
  21. ↑ Ch. Gigler: Strasser, P. Josef (Karl Josef) (1870–1939), archivist and clergyman. Institute for Modern and Contemporary History Research. Austrian Biographical Lexicon., 2018, accessed on November 1, 2019 .
  22. ^ Carinthian official and address book 1947. Edited according to official material and surveys by the publisher. Erwin Huttern. Klagenfurt, 1947, accessed on November 8, 2019 .
  23. ↑ awi / mk: Carinthia's oldest priest has died. Prelate Holmar headed the parish Ebriach for 50 years. Austria Press Agency , March 4, 2003, accessed on November 25, 2019 .
  24. ^ Abbey Pastor Msgr. Kan. Mag. Gerhard Christoph Kalidz. Catholic Church of Carinthia, accessed on November 12, 2019 .

Coordinates: 46 ° 54 ′ 11.6 "  N , 14 ° 15 ′ 42.4"  E