Parish church of St. Oswald ob Hornburg

The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Oswald ob Hornburg 1017 meters above sea level on the western slope of the Saualpe in the municipality of Eberstein . The church was a branch of Klein St. Paul for a long time and only received a curate in 1793 .

Building description

The church, first mentioned in 1369, is a single-nave building with a late Gothic choir. Bulky, double-stepped buttresses support the choir with small ogival windows. The tower on the north side of the nave has double ogival sound openings and is crowned by a younger pointed helmet. In 1982 a St. Christopher fresco from the 15th century was uncovered. The pointed arches of the corbel portal is flanked by columns with pyramids, above which there are picture niches.

The nave has a flat roof , and a groin vault rises above the one-bay choir with a five- eighth end . The historicist design of the church dates from 1880, the decoration with decorative frieze from 1929. On the north side, the polygonal stair tower protrudes into the interior with three sides. A pointed arch portal leads into the cross-vaulted sacristy on the tower ground floor. In the choir there is a sacrament niche closed with an iron grille .

Facility

The three altars were built around 1670. The high altar consists of an aedicula over a base with side console figures under canopy arches and a blasted segmented gable with an aedicula as an attachment. The column shafts are decorated with grapevines and fittings , the base, the gable, the canopies and the ears of the top with cartilage . Andreas Hauser painted the altarpiece with St. Oswald at the beginning of the 19th century. On the side are the carved figures of Saints Stephen and Laurentius , and Saint Cecilia in the top . On the Tabernakeltüre that's Last Supper displayed.

The two side altars have columned retables with the same structure as the high altar and some of them have Gothic figures from a former winged altar from 1520/1530. The center of the left altar is a Madonna made in 1670 in an angelic glory, flanked by Gothic relief figures of Saints Barbara and Catherine . In the essay there is a man of sorrows . On the right altar, the statue of St. Oswald from the end of the 15th century is flanked by the relief figures of the third of Anna and St. Jerome . The essay is a crucifixion group with Mary and John .

literature

• Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia . Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 790.
• Siegfried Hartwagner: Austrian Art Monograph Volume VIII: Carinthia. The St. Veit an der Glan district . Verlag St. Peter, Salzburg 1977, ISBN 3-900173-22-2 , p. 195.

Coordinates: 46 ° 49 ′ 7 ″  N , 14 ° 35 ′ 13.2 ″  E