Parish Church of St. Thomas (Zeiselberg)

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Parish Church of Saint Thomas in Saint Thomas

The parish church of St. Thomas is located in St. Thomas (market town Magdalensberg ( Štalenska gora ) , Carinthia ).

construction

The former fortified church , located on a slope of the Zeiselberg (Slov. Čilberk) above the St. Thomas field (Slov. Šenttomažko polje) is separated from the local cemetery and a few houses (the parish office, the old elementary school and the local Slovene cultural association "Edinost Šenttomaž") 1912/13 built club and culture house).

parish

The parish church was first mentioned in a document in 1306, was once a branch of the provost office of Maria Saal , was given old parish rights in 1616 and has been an independent parish since 1776. According to the scheme of 1917/18, the parish of St. Thomas am Zeiselberg / Šenttomaž na Čilberku and its subsidiary churches Hörtendorf / Trdnja vas (St. Margareten / Šmarjeta), St. Lorenzen / Šentlovrenc and the castle chapel Portendorf / Partovca, belonged to the Tainach deanery / Tinje is subordinate to, listed as "Slovene" (especially since the parish has been in the Slovene-speaking area since the early days). With the National Socialist tyranny, the use of the Slovene language was threatened with punishment and forbidden. After the war, St. Thomas / Šenttomaž was no longer run in Slovene or bilingual, but only in German. The parish language is now German, but to this day, occasionally, on private initiative, masses are held in Slovene or in two languages.

Exterior

The late Gothic building has a strong north tower ( Romanesque at its core ?) With Gothic sound windows and a pointed gable, as well as a low, drawn-in choir closed on three sides . In 1996 the spire was re-covered.

Römerstein on the east wall

The exterior has stepped buttresses on the choir and nave walls. The sacristy is built on the south side. The western porch is provided with a gable roof, in it is the late Gothic, profiled and pointed arch western portal with shoulder arch opening. On the tympanum of the west portal there is a poorly preserved late Gothic fresco of the unbelieving Thomas BC, which was uncovered in the course of restoration work in 1972. A communal epitaph / memorial stone for the fallen of the First World War is set in the side wall of the vestibule , which shows some local names in Slovene orthography, an expression of recent local and regional cultural history.

Römerstein on the east wall

On the southern outer wall is a heavily faded baroque wall painting of St. Christophorus . Various Roman-era stones are embedded in the outer facade: on the southern sacristy outer wall a Roman-era grave stele with an inscription and a niche portrait for the soldier Aurelius Secundianus, who died in the war at the age of 30; on the eastern exterior of the tower a fragment of a coffered ceiling from a grave building; on the west wall a grave relief depicting a scribe.

Now on the inside of the northern cemetery wall, three epitaphs of the owners of the Gundersdorf / Gundrska vas lordship belonging to the parish of St. Thomas / Šenttomaž are embedded after salvage work . These are tombstones / epitaphs of the members of the baron families Sternberg and Schloissnig, the latter representing the provincial governor of Carinthia after the middle of the 19th century.

Interior

The spacious nave as well as the off-axis choir is provided with a needle cap barrel with a burr diamond star vault and small, ornamented keystones on consoles with relief. The brick loft stands on two round pillars with arched openings . The year 1545 can be read above the high, pointed triumphal arch. On the north-west wall of the choir is a pointed arched, profiled entrance to the bell chamber. The windows are ogival and have ornamental glass windows from around 1900.

Facility

The high altar dates from around 1740 and is decorated with figures of St. Thomas, Petrus and Paulus, in the essay God the Father and Son, and with a statue of Maria Immaculata from the 19th century. The side altars are from 1711. The left Marian altar (the name 1803 refers to a restoration) has a statue with Madonna and Child enthroned from the 17th century in the top niche, additions are from the 18th century. The right side altar with the year 1711 is decorated with a painted altar sheet depicting St. Mary Magdalene. The font is made of marble.

Vicarage and cultural center

The two-storey parsonage is located on the eastern side of the building complex, adjoining the cemetery wall, has a hipped roof and the core is probably from the 16th century.

Kulturhaus St. Thomas former Edinost

The free-standing cultural center to the north of it from 1912/13 dates back to the initiative of the local pastor Ivan Brabenec (August 21, 1871 Heraldec (Bohemia) - 1940; provisional in St. Thomas since 1896, pastor there since 1900, from October 1929 Probst in Gurnitz / Podkrnos near Ebenthal / Žrelec) in association with the members of the Slovenian cultural association “Edinost Št. Tomaž “(St. Thomas Unit). The association was founded in 1910 as a reaction to the increasing ethno-national pressure and developed extremely lively association activities (courses, library, theater [locally in German by political opponents also called igre as in Slovenian], tamburizzas, choral singing, etc.). A Slovenian savings bank association Hranilnica in posojilnica Št. Tomaž completed the social offer. At the club meeting on March 3, 1912, the decision was made to build a club house (the club had 120 members at that time). The building permit was submitted on May 11, 1913, and on November 9, 1913, the event hall was designed for use in winter at the request of the municipality. The building was used by both local Slovenian institutions until the National Socialist tyranny. During and after the war, their intended use was no longer possible, after 1955 the Slovene club inscription was removed from the outer wall. In recent times, the local cultural life has been revived and the building has been returned to cultural use.

literature

  • Wilhelm Wadl: Magdalensberg: Nature - History - Present. Church Chronicle. Verlag Johannes Heyn, Klagenfurt 1995, ISBN 3-85366-812-7 .
  • Stefan Singer: Cultural and Church History of the Deanery Tainach . New edition. Klagenfurt / Celovec et al. 1995.
  • Dehio Handbook Carinthia. 3. Edition. Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 832 f.
  • Katja Sturm-Schnabl: Kulturno življenje v fari Št. Tomaž od začetka 20. stoletja do nemške okupacije (The [Slovenian] cultural life in the parish of St. Thomas from the beginning of the 20th century until the German occupation). In: Koroški koledar 2009. Celovec: Slovenska prosvetna zveza, Drava Verlag , 2008, pp. 139–156.
  • Pavel Zdovc: Slovenska krajevna imena na Avstrijskem Koroškem = The Slovenian place names in Carinthia. Extended Edition. Ljubljana 2010. ISSN  0560-2920 .
  • Bojan-Ilija Schnabl: Celovško polje, neznani zaklad osrednje slovenske cultures pokrajine. In: Koroški koledar 2013. Celovec: Slovenska prosvetna zveza, Drava Verlag , pp. 107–122.

Web links

Commons : Parish Church of St. Thomas, Magdalensberg  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bojan-Ilija Schnabl: Ledinska imena v Šenttomažu pri Celovcu in okolici. In: Koroški koledar. 2015. Celovec: Slovenska prosvetna zveza, Drava Verlag 2014, ISBN 978-3-85435-747-6 , pp. 119-126.
  2. ↑ Bojan-Ilija Schnabl: Ledinska imena v Šenttomažu pri Celovcu in okolici. In: Glasnik SED 54/4. Ljubljana: Slovensko etnografsko društvo, 2014, pp. 27–32, archived copy ( memento of the original dated February 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sed-drustvo.si
  3. ↑ Katja Sturm-Schnabl: Kulturno življenje v fari Št. Tomaž od začetka 20. stoletja do nemške okupacije (The [Slovenian] cultural life in the parish of St. Thomas from the beginning of the 20th century until the German occupation). In: Koroški koledar 2009. Celovec: Slovenska prosvetna zveza, Drava Verlag , 2008, pp. 139–156, esp. 140.
  4. ↑ Pavel Zdovc Slovenska krajevna imena na Koroškem Avstrijskem = Slovenian place names in Carinthia. Extended Edition. Ljubljana 2010. ISSN  0560-2920 .
  5. ^ ADG, Diocese Gurk (Ed.): Parish map of the Diocese Gurk, 1924 (reprinted in: Kärnten-Archiv, Archivverlag, Vienna 1993–2010, KA 06042 with accompanying text by R. Kugler)
  6. ↑ Bojan-Ilija Schnabl: Celovško polje, neznani zaklad osrednje slovenske cultures pokrajine. In: Koroški koledar 2013. Celovec: Slovenska prosvetna zveza, Drava Verlag , pp. 107–122.
  7. ^ Dehio Handbook Carinthia. 3. Edition. Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 832 f.
  8. ↑ Katja Sturm-Schnabl: Kulturno življenje v fari Št. Tomaž od začetka 20. stoletja do nemške okupacije (The [Slovenian] cultural life in the parish of St. Thomas from the beginning of the 20th century until the German occupation). In: Koroški koledar 2009. Celovec: Slovenska prosvetna zveza, Drava Verlag , 2008, pp. 139–156, esp. 145.

Coordinates: 46 ° 39 ′ 49 ″  N , 14 ° 23 ′ 58 ″  E