Parish Church St. Ruprecht (Völkermarkt)
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The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Ruprecht is northwest of the old town of Völkermarkt . It is surrounded by a cemetery. The church was probably founded around 760 by Bishop Modestus . In 1043 the church was important as the mother parish of the three Hemmakirchen in Trixnertal. In 1148 the church is mentioned as the seat of an archdeacon . In 1231 Archbishop Eberhard II founded a collegiate chapter in St. Ruprecht with a provost and twelve canons , which was moved to the parish church of St. Magdalena around 1248 . As a result of the Turkish and Hungarian invasions, the church lost its importance and became a branch church. St. Ruprecht has been a suburban parish since 1798.
Building description
The Romanesque building of the 12th and 13th centuries is shaped by the renovations of the 18th and 19th centuries. The choir tower has the original structure of the pilaster strips up to half its height and a Romanesque arched frieze with two double arches per field. The three-part blind arcades above are the Romanesque sound windows of the bell storey, which are now walled up. The octagonal structure with the pointed helmet based on the Northern Italian pattern was put on in 1857. The four bells were made in 1950 in the Oberascher bell foundry . The nave is structured by wide pilaster strips, a neo-Gothic blind arch frieze under the eaves and neo-Gothic tracery above the rectangular baroque windows. The west facade is adorned with neo-Gothic window and wheel windows. In the two-tiered, Romanesque west portal, a Roman-era, coffered ceiling slab of a grave building is incorporated in the tympanum . The Gothic chapel extension with buttresses on the south side of the nave dates from the 14th century, the profiled, keel arched portal in the south from the 15th century.
The single nave nave is divided into four bays by strong, drawn-in pillars. A fifth yoke was separated as a sanctuary and provided with a semi-dome. A barrel vault with lancet caps rises above the nave . In the attic above, the tram beams of the original flat ceiling and Romanesque window openings have been preserved. The organ made by Martin Hohenberger in 1886 stands on the organ loft above a wide segmental arch in the western yoke. The southern one-bay chapel with a three-sided apse has a deeply drawn-down ribbed vault from the 14th century and tracery windows from the 19th century. The sacristy is on the ground floor of the Romanesque choir tower with groin vaults and four pointed caps . The sacrament niche on the north wall of the choir tower, which was built around 1470, is framed with buttresses and pillars decorated with painted crabs and tracery. There is a Vera icon representation in the tympanum of the niche .
Four medieval stained glass from the early 14th century from the windows of the former presbytery with depictions of Saints Rupert and Nicholas , a radiant Madonna with child from the middle of the 15th century and Saint Dorothea with donor from around 1440/1450 have been in the since 1883 State Museum Klagenfurt .
Facility
The high altar was assembled in 1815/16 from figural and ornamental parts of the side altar from the former Augustinian church from the second quarter of the 18th century. In the center of the altar is a crucifix made around 1510 . The left altar of Mary was built around 1750. The statue of Our Lady is flanked by the statues of Saints Anna and Joachim . The tabernacle door with a crucifixion scene is cut out of a metal plate and painted. On the right side altar, the altar panel is a canvas painting of St. Anthony Abbas from the 20th century in a baroque frame. Alois Progar created the neo-Gothic altar shrine in the side chapel in 1910. The relief scene shows the adoration of the Madonna by St. Aloysius , in the predella an angel is depicted with the handkerchief of Christ. In conversation Enge is a guardian angel statue .
The pulpit from the first quarter of the 18th century is painted with the four evangelists on the parapet . The church has console figures of Archangel Michael with balance scales from the 17th century as well as neo-Gothic figures of Christ enthroned as judge of the world and Saints Rupert and Virgil, created by Alois Gapp in 1874 . The oil painting of St. Francis with a crucifix dates from the 19th century. The pictures of the Stations of the Cross after Josef von Führich in the Nazarene style were created in 1909 at the Franz Gottwald Art Institute. The prayer stalls in the nave were made by Franz Filatsch in 1897, and the confessional by Martin Vehovec in 1910. The holy grave with rock grotto, the carved body of Christ and two painted grave guard figures was created by Ludwig Grilc in 1895. On the west wall of the nave there is the coat of arms tombstone of Friedrich Poechel von Rechberg from 1283.
Karner
The Karner north of the church is a late Romanesque round building with an originally horseshoe-shaped apse, which was replaced at the beginning of the 14th century by a Gothic choir with lancet windows . This is where the Michael Chapel is located, which was first mentioned in a document in 1339. Today it serves as a soldiers' memorial.
literature
- Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia . Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 1033 f
- Wilhelm Deuer, Johannes Grabmayer: Transromanica. In the footsteps of Romanesque in Carinthia, cultural hikes vol. 1 . Verlag Johannes Heyn, Klagenfurt 2008, ISBN 978-3-7084-0302-1 , p. 186 ff.
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Coordinates: 46 ° 39 ′ 49.7 " N , 14 ° 37 ′ 25.9" E