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The parish church Treffen in Treffen am Ossiacher See is consecrated to St. Maximilian. Only the oldest part of the church, today's Michaels Chapel, is oriented towards sunrise. Since the pulpit, a part of the Gerlitzen mountain , rises high in the east of the village of Treffen , the sun rises far to the south. That is why the Michaels Chapel faces south-south-east. Another special feature of the church is its location near the Pöllinger Bach. This former torrent has burst its banks several times. Therefore, a new nave was added almost at a right angle to the Michaels Chapel so that the entrance area of the church is protected by the building itself in the event of flooding. Deposits of material after floods are also the reason that the church is a little lower than the surroundings and the porch of the church is one or two steps down.
history
A church in Treffen was first mentioned in a document between 878 and 906 as an own church of the Ötting monastery . In 1007, Treffen came into the possession of King Heinrich II . The oldest parts of the current church, the nave walls and the tower foundation date from the third third of the 12th century. In the middle of the 13th century the tower was raised and the nave was extended. In 1348 and 1690 the church was badly damaged by earthquakes. Therefore, in 1694, instead of the collapsed Gothic vault, a flat ceiling was installed in the nave, so that a Last Judgment fresco that is attached to the tower wall can no longer be seen from the nave. In 1812 the interior of the church was redesigned in the neoclassical style. The cemetery around the church was abandoned in 1905 and moved to the eastern outskirts. The remarkable tomb of Mathias Kleinszig still exists in the churchyard.
Building
The five-story church tower stands on the north side between the choir and nave . It has round-arched double sound windows and is crowned with a Gothic pointed helmet. To the north of the tower there is a former sacristy and a staircase that leads into the tower. The two-bay choir with a 5/8 end from the 15th century is supported by stepped buttresses .
In the south, the late Gothic Michaels Chapel with a shoulder arch portal is built, below is a lower chapel, which is used as a holy grave on Good Friday. To the east of the chapel is a baroque sacristy. The Gothic profiled, semicircular west portal from the beginning of the 15th century is protected by an open vestibule. A Roman coffered ceiling fragment is set up in this. Other Roman spoils such as an Attis relief, depictions of servants and braided ribbon ornaments are walled in on the outer wall. There are also memorial stones for Guido Zernatto and Rudolf Kattnigg . The Christophorus fresco, marked 1637 and attached to the south wall of the nave , was partially destroyed by the breaking out of a window. The fresco in the Michaels Chapel is marked 1497 and was probably created by the workshop of Thomas von Villach . The Gothic fresco shows Jesus on the Mount of Olives. After the earthquake of 1690, the Christ head was painted over in baroque style during a restoration. A painted frieze with fish-bladder ornamentation, coat of arms and a " Keutschacher beet " runs above the representation of the Mount of Olives .
A round narrow triumphal arch separates the four-bay long nave from the tower square with a belt arch and groin vault. In the north wall of the tower square, a pointed arch portal with an early baroque wrought iron door leads into the old sacristy. A cruciform lancet vault extends over the choir. The three-axis west gallery is vaulted with a groin vault. The one-yoke Michaels Chapel with a 5/8 end has a burr-shaped vaulted cap.
On the flat ceiling of the nave, a central painting from around 1700 shows the Assumption and the Coronation of Mary . The four evangelists are represented in medallions around this painting.
Roman stone in the outer wall
Remnants of a Roman coffered ceiling
Facility
The high altar and the side altars were erected when the church was redesigned in 1812. The tabernacle of the high altar and the console figures of Saints Nepomuk , Joseph , Antonius and Maximilian come from a former late baroque high altar . At the end of the choir above the high altar there is a late Baroque depiction of the Ascension of Christ by Joseph Anton Cusetti.
Above the right side altar hangs the depiction of the Annunciation by Cusetti. On the altar there is a small carved statue of the Virgin Mary in a halo on a globe with a snake and two angels. The painting above the left side altar shows Christ on the cross.
The classical Joseph altar in the Michaels Chapel was created in the first half of the 19th century. He is crowned by a figure of the Archangel Michael. The baptismal group Jesus and John the Baptist was stolen from the classicist cover of the Gothic baptismal font that stands here in 1966 .
The large, gilded crucifix was made at the beginning of the 19th century, the pulpit, which was later partially changed, was made around 1700.
The church has several late baroque oil paintings with early classical framing. The painters of these pictures are:
- Johann Bertl: Pieta
- Max Steiner: The distress of Christ
- Stephan Kessler: The washing of feet and Jesus the child friend
- Joseph Anton Cusetti: Ascension of Christ, Annunciation of the Birth to Mary and Saint Maximilian.
The parish church has a nativity scene with doll figures by Elli Riehl .
The left side altar
The right side altar
Late baroque depiction of a Pietà
Oil painting: Adoration of the Shepherds
St. Maximilian, painting by JA Cusetti
literature
- Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia . Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 964 f.
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Coordinates: 46 ° 40 ′ 7.5 ″ N , 13 ° 51 ′ 22.2 ″ E