Parish Church of St. Niklas an der Drau
The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Nicholas in St. Niklas an der Drau in the municipality of Villach was first mentioned in documents in 1370 and 1410 and was consecrated again by the bishop of Grado in 1486 after the Turkish invasions . The current neo-baroque church was built in 1862 and renovated in 1910 after a fire.
Building description
A single-bay, flat-arched choir with a semicircular apse adjoins the three-bay nave with shallow barrel and stitch caps. The two-storey tower with pointed arch sound windows in the northern choir corner is crowned by a pointed gable helmet. To the west is a recent funeral hall. The church has pointed arch windows in the nave and choir. The strongly drawn in and drawn down triumphal arch has a basket arch with a wide soffit . A straight lintel portal leads from the choir into the groin-vaulted sacristyin the tower. The west portal covered with a wooden canopy with a pressed arch, reinforced spire and keystone is marked 1862. In the gable above there is a star window. In the brick balustrade of the west gallery, which stands on two pillars, is a late baroque organ. The wall paintings date from the time it was built (1862) and show God the Father in the choir, above the triumphal arch the scene of the Mount of Olives.
Facility
The neo-baroque high altar with sacrificial portals was created by Ignaz Oblak in 1899. In the central niche, it hides the statue of St. Nicholas , which is flanked by Anna and Joseph with their children. The top figure represents St. Florian . The late baroque side altar with column architecture comes from the middle of the 18th century. The central figure shows Mary with child. The neo-Gothic top picture shows John the Baptist . The pulpit , created around 1780, rests on a stone support. The painted representations of the Good Samaritan and the Sower can be seen on the parapets of the pulpit . The sound cover is crowned by scrolls decorated with foliage and bearing a shell. A Holy Spirit dove is attached to the underside of the sound cover.
literature
- Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia . Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 786.
- Barbara Kienzl : The baroque pulpits in Carinthia. Verlag des Kärntner Landesarchiv, Klagenfurt 1986, ISBN 3-900531-16-1 , p. 372 f.
Web links
- Parish church of St. Niklas on the Drava / Šmiklavž ob Dravi. Retrieved June 3, 2018 .
Coordinates: 46 ° 35 ′ 58.9 " N , 13 ° 56 ′ 36.8" E