Parish Church of St. Paul an der Gail
The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Paul an der Gail in the municipality of Sankt Stefan im Gailtal was first mentioned in documents in 1392. In 1478 Turks ravaged the church, and in 1498 it was re-consecrated.
Building description
The church is a late Gothic complex with a baroque style nave and a slightly drawn-in, two-bay choir with three-eighths closure. The north-facing tower is slightly set into the choir. The massive tower with no storey structure has slits in the wall, small pointed arched sacristy windows, larger pointed arched windows at the top and, above them, late Gothic, coupled sound windows, some of which still have original tracery . The top of the tower is a four-sided pyramid helmet. A small neo-Gothic sacristy arch was added between the tower and the choir polygon . The nave has round-arched and rectangular windows, the end of the choir has three two-part lancet windows with original tracery. The late Gothic reveals the choir windows have the apex painted finials on. A painted, late Gothic frieze made of fish bladder ornament and inscribed quadruples surrounds the choir polygon. On the north wall there is a scene from the Mount of Olives painted around 1440 , a crucifixion scene from the 18th century and a St. Christopher fresco from around 1500 . Half of the former southern side portal with a pointed arch is walled up. The richly profiled west portal with a pointed arch shows stonemason's marks and is protected by a pillar porch the width of a nave.
Inside, a retracted, pointed triumphal arch connects the flat-roofed nave and the choir. In the choir, a ribbed vault rests on consoles, some of which are head-shaped. There is a keel-arched sacrament niche on the south wall . In the north, a profiled pointed arch portal leads into the sacristy . The organ built by Josef Grafenauer in 1861 stands on the baroque, wooden west gallery with balustrade.
Murals
Around 1500 three standing saints were depicted in the lunettes of the three northern choir wall panels , above them a mercy seat , two martyrs and two bishops. In 1992, a fresco of St. Christopher painted around 1500 was uncovered in a diamond-shaped field in the chancel. The Adoration of the Magi and the fragment of the Bethlehemite child murder on the north wall of the nave date from the second quarter of the 16th century. The paintings of the Coronation of Mary and the four evangelists in stucco frame fields on the nave ceiling were created in 1887.
Facility
In the high altar, built around 1650, with a two-storey structure with columns and arched central niches , two reliefs of a Gothic altar with the martyrs of Saints Laurentius and Stephanus were incorporated by master Lienhart (Pambstell?) From the first quarter of the 16th century. On the main floor, the figure of St. Paul is flanked by the evangelists John and Matthew and in the essay, St. Peter is flanked by the sculptures of the evangelists Mark and Luke . The top of the altar is made up of God the Father and angels.
The left side altar, built around 1650, bears a late Gothic figure of the Mother of God . The right side altar, also created around 1650, consists of an aedicule above a base and a blown triangular gable with a small frame as an attachment. The central figure represents Saint Ulrich , the top picture a saint bishop. A little baroque man of sorrows is standing in the cafeteria .
literature
- Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia . Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 792.
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Coordinates: 46 ° 36 ′ 16.7 ″ N , 13 ° 33 ′ 20.1 ″ E