Sternberg parish church
The Roman Catholic parish church Sternberg / Strmec is consecrated to St. George . It belongs to the Diocese of Gurk within the Rosegg / Rožek deanery . The church stands on a steep hill in the formerly fortified cemetery north of the Süd Autobahn in the municipality of Wernberg .
history
The place is likely to have been settled in Celtic and Roman times. Not far from the Sternberg was probably the Roman road station Tasinemetum on the Roman road from Aquileja to Virunum .
The church was a separate church of the Counts of Sternberg, who appeared between 1170 and 1180. In 1285 it was named as a parish church. In 1311 the church and castle went to the sovereign, in 1329 to the Counts of Ortenburg and in 1418 to the Counts of Cilli . In 1457 Sternberg Castle was destroyed in the battle for the Cillier legacy and the church was damaged.
In 1994 the interior was restored. In 1997 a large sundial fresco from the 16th century was uncovered on the southern tower facade and the architectural decor of the 18th century was restored.
Churchyard
The church stands in a formerly fortified cemetery. In the northeast corner there is a square, presumably early Baroque cemetery chapel with a steep pyramid roof and loopholes . In the baroque chamber of the dead there is an early Gothic crucifix from the 13th century.
Building description
A choir was added to the originally Romanesque choir tower church in the 14th century, which is supported by triple-stepped buttresses . The double-lane tracery windows date from the 15th century. The western vestibule, built in 1586, has a double- coupled Renaissance window . In the Baroque period, a chapel was added to the east end of the nave on the north and south sides. In 1820 the three-storey tower, which is essentially Romanesque, was renewed and given an onion dome.
In the church wall are spoils roman temporal tombs incorporated, on the south side of the porch a frieze block with a marine gripping relief , at the front of the staircase Aufganges to Sakristei an inscription for a sanctuary of Iunones . On the outer wall of the end of the choir is a niche portrait tombstone from the middle of the second century with the relief busts of a woman and two men; the woman in local costume with fibula jewelry , the men in Roman clothing. In the choir area you can see an architrave fragment with a vegetal ornament.
The ornamental ceiling paintings in square fields in the vestibule were probably made around 1586. During the interior restoration in 1994, a late Gothic fresco with Saints George and Leonhard , an enthroned Madonna and Child and a kneeling donor was exposed on the northern part of the west wall , and one on the southern part Red chalk inscription from the 16th century, a baroque inscription from 1687, ornamental and figural paintings as well as a well-preserved Maria-Sieben-Pain and a fragmentary flagellation of Christ.
One enters the church interior from the west through the simply profiled, Gothic pointed arch portal. In the nave, a three-bay late Gothic net rib vault from the 15th century rests on wall templates with services . The west gallery with a curved balustrade has a flat false ceiling. The floral decor was created in 1687.
A pointed triumphal arch connects the nave with the tower square with cross ribbed vaults between belt arches . A ribbed vault rises above the choir with a five- eighth end on consoles from the 14th century, some of which are designed as head consoles. The two side chapels have groin vaults.
Facility
The high altar with protruding columns, pilasters and sacrificial portals fills the choir in height and width. The altar was built in the last quarter of the 18th century and was partially changed in the 19th. The main character, a saint George on horseback, was created before 1873 by the company Insam and Prinot from Val Gardena . To the side of the altar are Saint Barbara and Saint Joseph , above the sacrificial passage portals Saints Sebastian and Florian . The top picture is the painting of a Coronation of Mary .
The left cross altar canopy built in 1775 Joseph Kapfer and took Jerome Vonier. The shrine contains a crucifixion group , including a carved group of poor souls . On the side are Saints Lucia and Barbara, in the essay God the Father on the globe.
The right Marian altar with acanthus decorations was built around 1725.
The altar with columns and acanthus decorations in the south chapel, made around 1725/1730, has a carved Madonna figure.
The simple pulpit from the first quarter of the 18th century shows the painted representations of the sower , the good shepherd and the fish on the parapet . The sound cover is crowned by the tablets of the law and the dove of the Holy Spirit .
The prayer chairs date from the 18th century.
In the south chapel there is an eight-sided, late Gothic baptismal font , on whose pyramid-shaped, wooden top the baptism of Jesus , Mary with the child, a three-figure baptismal scene and St. George are depicted. These representations, painted around 1490, are an early work by the master of the Amlach altar wings.
The 1629 by Jacob Kazner created Fastentuch is rather the mannerisms attributable to the Baroque. Three scenes from the Old and twenty-one from the New Testament are shown on the 24 panels.
A figure of Saint George made around 1500 by the oldest workshop in Villach is now in the Gurk Diocesan Museum.
literature
- Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia . Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 911 f.
- Karl Kafka: Carinthia's fortified churches. Birken-Verlag, Vienna 1972, ISBN 3-85030-034-X , p. 82.
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Coordinates: 46 ° 37 ′ 32.2 " N , 13 ° 59 ′ 31.5" E