Parish church of St. Martin am Silberberg
The parish church of St. Martin am Silberberg stands above the Steiergraben at 1101 meters above sea level, 6 km from the center of the municipality of Hüttenberg in the village of Sankt Martin am Silberberg . The church, first mentioned in 1285, is surrounded by a cemetery and a partially ruined wall. A sculpture with a triple face was found in this wall in 1952. This represents the only Alpine Slavic sculpture in Carantania from the early Middle Ages. In 1989, a Romanesque round apse was found under the choir tower .
Building description
The core of the nave dates from the first half of the 13th century. The square late Gothic choir tower from the end of the 15th century is only slightly narrower than the nave. The tower with slender tracery windows that were later broken out on the tower ground floor and small ogival twin windows on the bell floor is crowned by an eight-sided pointed helmet. On the southern wall of the tower there are remains of a St Christopher fresco . A late Gothic sacristy is built on the north side of the tower . Squat, multi-tiered buttresses support the north wall of the nave. On the south wall of the nave there is a cross from the end of the 18th century. You enter the church through the west portal with a baroque vestibule.
A baroque barrel vault with stitch caps rises above the three-and-a-half-bay nave . Above that, the tram beam heads of the older flat ceiling have been preserved. The west gallery dates from the baroque period. A steep, pointed triumphal arch connects the nave with the tower yoke. In this a late Gothic vaulted star rests on round corner services . In the choir there is a rough late Gothic sacrament niche and an octagonal baptismal font from 1519.
Facility
The Baroque high altar was in 1776 by Johann Hüttenberger Reichmann taken . The altar panel shows St. Martin , the coronation of Mary is shown in the top . To the side of the central picture are the large carved figures of Saints Florian and Sebastian , and above the sacrificial passage portals are Saints Isidore and Notburga .
The left side altar, created around 1670, consists of an aedicula over a base, lateral canopy arches for console figures and a blown volute gable with an aedicula as an attachment. The column shafts are decorated with vine tendrils , the side ears with cartilage . The altar bears a Madonna from the first half of the 15th century, which was revised in the Baroque period, as well as the Saints Erhard , Laurentius and Stephanus . The top picture shows the Annunciation to Mary . The right side altar resembles the left in terms of construction and decoration. At the center of the altar is the vision of St. Anthony of Padua . The carved figures on the side again depict Saint Stephen and Laurentius. The church also features a pulpit from 1668 and a baroque tabernacle cabinet from the mid-18th century in the sacristy.
literature
- Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia . Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 775.
- Franz Glaser : Three faces from St. Martin am Silberberg: an Alpine Slavic sculpture of the early Middle Ages? in: Archeology of Austria; 7/2, Vienna, 1996, p. 1.
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Coordinates: 46 ° 59 ′ 7.8 ″ N , 14 ° 32 ′ 45.9 ″ E