Parish Church of St. Stefan am Krappfeld
The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Stefan am Krappfeld in the municipality of Mölbling was first mentioned in 1131. The former fortified church was besieged by the Turks in 1478 and taken by the Hungarians in 1480. The fortified cemetery wall was torn down in 1858 and replaced by a lower one.
Building description
The church is a Romanesque choir tower church built around 1200 . The nave was extended in the 16th century. The sacristy was added to the south of the choir square . In the Baroque era , a chapel was built on the south side and the facades were redesigned with plaster pilasters . In the 19th century the church was given a south aisle. All windows except for the eastern choir window have been redesigned in a neo-Gothic style. The mighty choir tower was raised several times. The sound windows in the Romanesque and Gothic bell storeys were walled up. Today the tower has round-arched, baroque sound windows on the fifth floor. It is crowned by an onion helmet from 1766. The oldest bell was cast in 1435. In 1993/94 a late Gothic Mount of Olives fresco was uncovered on the west facade . A Romanesque woven ribbon capital is walled in next to the keel arch portal.
After the fire of 1765, the originally flat-roofed nave was given a needle cap barrel on consoles. The three-axis stone gallery is vaulted under the groin and has a wooden parapet over pointed arcades. The retracted Romanesque triumphal arch was gothic beveled at the edges. In the groin-vaulted square of the choir there is a late-Gothic sacrament niche , which is framed by twisted columns and pinnacles . In 1989, Gothic frescoes were uncovered on the triumphal arch wall. On the north side is a Pietà painted around 1425 , on the south side a holy sorrow .
Portal and Mount of Olives fresco
Pietà
Facility
The early Baroque high altar, made around 1640, with niches between twisted, fluted columns covered with cartilage , a similar top and sacrificial doorway decorated with cartilage , contains the figures of Saints Florian , Stephanus and Sebastian on the main floor as well as an annunciation group in the top , flanked by Saints Barbara and Margaretha . The relief of the antependium carved around 1720/1730 shows the stoning of St. Stephen. The church has a Lenten veil of the central type with eight passion scenes in round medallions around a central crucifixion group .
A bricked cubic altar table with a stone slab in front of the Gothic fresco of a Pietà serves as the left side altar (see above). A consecration cross is painted in the antependium .
The right side altar was in 1707 by Joannes James Marcelus Senge passed and holds the shrine a Madonna.
The altar of the side chapel was built around 1670/1680 and shows Saint Barbara in the middle picture. Furthermore, the sculptures of Saints Catherine and Rosalia are on the altar.
The pulpit , made around 1700, bears the sculptures of the four evangelists on the pulpit and those of the Archangel Michael on the sound cover .
The painting of Saints Cosmas and Damian in front of the Madonna from the first half of the 18th century originally comes from the St. Kosmas branch church . The crucifix above the triumphal arch was carved by Hans Domenig in 1955. The inlaid pews are marked "1745 AKUT".
The left side altar
The right side altar
Altar of the side chapel
literature
- Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia . Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 827 f.
- 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 , pp. 203 ff.
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Coordinates: 46 ° 52 ′ 2.8 ″ N , 14 ° 26 ′ 45.6 ″ E