Zammelsberg parish church
The Zammelsberg parish church stands at an altitude of 1100 meters in the streudorf of the same name above the Gurktal in the Weitensfeld community . The church, consecrated to St. George , was first mentioned between 1050 and 1065 and was named as a parish church in 1131. The church is surrounded by a formerly defensive cemetery wall, in the north of which there is a round, inwardly flattened defensive tower with an octagonal beam structure and a pyramid roof covered with shingles. The defense tower has key notches and a crack at the bottom .
Building description
The church is a late Gothic building , probably built around 1490, with a retracted choir. A sacristy is attached to the north of the choir, supported by a two-tier buttress . The mighty western vestibule tower has the full width of the nave and is connected to the defensive wall on the western side. The tower has two-part ogival sound windows and is crowned by an eight-sided pointed helmet. Simply profiled side portals lead into the tower vestibule.
In the three-bay nave, a star-rib vault rests on circular services. A chamfered, pointed triumphal arch connects the nave and the one-and-a-half- bay, star-ribbed choir with a five-eighth end . The figuratively decorated keystones in the choir show, among other things, a heraldic shield with ox and St. George. In the choir there is a pinnacle crowned sacrament niche from the middle of the 15th century. In the two-lane tracery windows in the choir and nave, some remnants of medieval stained glass have been preserved. A grooved, pointed arched portal with a late Gothic iron-studded door leads into the baroque vaulted choir with a polygonal ridge-vaulted choir, which probably dates from the 14th century.
Facility
The high altar from 1691 is a colonnaded altar with a high base and sacrificial portals , which is decorated with cartilage on the base, entablature and the side ears . The central image of St. George is flanked on the inside by the statues of Moses and St. Stephen and on the outside by Saints Catherine and Barbara . Next to the top picture with the Holy Trinity are the figures of Johann Nepomuk and probably Franz Xaver .
The bricked left side altar bears a trinity group from the middle of the 18th century, the right one with vine-leaf columns framing a Madonna from the end of the 17th century and in the top a coronation group from the first quarter of the 16th century.
Half-figure images of the apostles hang on the lower parapet of the two-story wooden west gallery. These are copies after Rubens painted at the beginning of the 18th century and are partially reversed. Additional features include an eight-sided late Gothic baptismal font , a stone sarcophagus from the early 14th century and post-Gothic carved figures, which were probably made by a master Hans in 1624.
literature
- Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia . Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 1061 f.
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Coordinates: 46 ° 49 ′ 46.8 ″ N , 14 ° 9 ′ 15.6 ″ E