Parish church St. Peter in Lavanttal
The parish church of St. Peter im Lavanttal is located in the village of St. Peter im Lavanttal in the market town of Reichenfels in the Wolfsberg district in Carinthia . The Roman Catholic parish church consecrated to Saints Peter and Paul belongs to the Wolfsberg deanery in the Gurk-Klagenfurt diocese . The church and the cemetery with the Karner are under monument protection ( list entry ).
history
According to tradition, the oldest church in the upper Lavant valley was probably already in existence in 931. Documented in 1354 a parish. In 1480 the church was destroyed in a Turkish war. In 1492 a late Gothic new building was consecrated. In 1974 a sacristy was added to the north (?).
architecture
The outside of the church shows a mighty tower the width of the nave, the tower contains the richly barbed west portal, the bell storey has baroque twin windows and an onion helmet. The nave and the polygonal choir have two-tier buttresses.
The interior of the church shows a two-bay nave with a ribbed vault on consoles. The brick gallery in the inner width of the tower is vaulted with a star rib vault. The stone Gothic spiral staircase to the gallery is located in the massive masonry in the northwest of the tower and bulges there like a bay. The ogival triumphal arch constricts the transition from the nave to the almost equally wide choir. The one-bay choir with a five-eighth closure has a ribbed vault on consoles and neo-Gothic windows from the 19th century. There is a Gothic sacrament niche in the choir. The font names 1488.
Furnishing
The high altar around 1650 has an aedicula above a high plinth with an embedded tabernacle, it carries figures on pedestals in front of suggested niches and has cartilaginous volutes with a simple cartilage cartouche made of an attachment, the figures are from the 19th century.
The left side altar from the third quarter of the 18th century shows a miraculous image in a rococo silver frame. The right side altar around 1720/1730 shows the altar sheet Johannes Nepomuk.
Karner
The church is surrounded by a cemetery wall. At the cemetery north of the church there is a charnel house. The Karner is a Romanesque round building from the 13th century with a rectangular oriel apse with a small ogival window.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Carinthia 2001 . St. Peter im Lavanttal, Parish Church of St. Peter and Paul, with floor plan, Karner, boundary stone on the state border with Styria. P. 814.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 0 ′ 44.7 " N , 14 ° 44 ′ 39.2" E