Parish church of St. Peter in wood
The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Peter in Holz in the municipality of Lendorf is in the area of the late antique town of Teurnia . To the west of the church, the ruins of an early Christian episcopal church have been excavated. After the re-Christianization, a church on the Holzer Berg was mentioned for the first time between 1060 and 1070.
Building description
Today's church is a medium-sized, baroque-style building from the 14th / 15th centuries. Century. The church consists of a nave with double-stepped buttresses on the south side, a retracted choir with a five-eighth end and a polygonal closed extension on the north side, probably built in 1737. In the northwest corner is the church tower crowned by a pointed gable helmet with wall slots and biforic sound windows . To the west of the tower is the baroque entrance to the organ gallery. The northern side portal is closed in a segmental arch. The pointed arched, profiled, late Gothic west portal is protected by a pillar porch. A fresco of St. Christopher can be seen on the left of the portal . The fresco above the portal, painted around 1430, shows a representation of Mary with a child, Saints Catherine , Barbara , Peter and a bishop. The coronation of Mary to the right of the portal dates from the middle of the 15th century. Below is a fresco of the death of Mary painted around 1470 . The frescoes on the west wall were uncovered in 1942. The large fresco of St. Christopher from the end of the 14th century was transferred from the tower to the north side of the choir in 1950.
In the four-bay nave, a ribbed vault rests on consoles or on pillars with semicircular templates. The organ loft from 1950 in the entrance yoke stands on a round arch with beveled pillars. In the north wall an arcade opening leads into the side aisle extension with a baroque groin vault and belt arch over pilasters . In the west wall of the side extension there is a small, late Gothic pointed arch portal with an iron door, above the baroque tower staircase. A round, chamfered triumphal arch connects the nave with the choir of the same height. In the choir rises a baroque barrel vault with stitch caps on consoles.
The late Gothic paintings in the vaulted caps were uncovered in 1970 and show St. Peter, Our Lady, angels with instruments of passion and flower tendrils. The frescoes arranged in four strips on the north wall were created around 1370/1380 and were uncovered in 1928. Depicted are the Passion , Christ in the mandorla , Mary, angels and apostles, including the resurrection of the blessed and the procession to the heavenly castle. The third and fourth rows consist of fragments from the legend of Dorothee . There are apostle crosses on the south wall .
Facility
The high altar was created around 1700. The middle picture was painted by Peter Sedlmayr in 1699 and shows the church patron. The tabernacle bears a crucifix in front of the painted representation of Jerusalem. The two side altars with the images of the crucifixion and the plague saints Sebastian and Rochus date from the beginning of the 18th century. The altar of the side chapel, made around 1740, bears the figure of St. Athanasius , flanked by the statues of St. John the Baptist and Erasmus .
The Pietà was carved around 1430. The church also features a console figure of Our Lady from the beginning of the 19th century, two reliquary shrines from the late 17th century in the entrance yoke , a Gothic holy water basin next to the west portal, a coat of arms tombstone from 1740 and a Gothic tombstone on the arches between the nave and the chapel extension .
A shrine with a late Gothic seated statue from the church and made around 1500 is now in the Landesmuseum Klagenfurt . The former Stations of the Cross were transferred to the Ferlach parish church in 1971 .
literature
- Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia . Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 811 f.
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Coordinates: 46 ° 49 ′ 11.7 " N , 13 ° 26 ′ 54.5" E