Parish church Zweinitz
The parish church of Zweinitz is consecrated to St. Aegydius and is located on the eastern edge of the village in the community of Weitensfeld in the Gurktal .
history
According to legend, the church was founded by St. Hemma of Gurk , but it was first mentioned in a document in 1169. In 1354 it was restored after a fire and an indulgence was granted. The church has always been lent to Gurk canons , who let vicars look after them. It was not until 1781 that Zweinitz became an independent parish .
Building
The medium-sized high Romanesque country church from the 12th-13th centuries Century consists of a single nave and a retracted square choir with a crooked hip and round apse . A Gothic sacristy with a pent roof is attached to the south of the choir . A roof turret, which was renewed in 1929, rises above the eastern nave with a coupled acoustic window and a curved pointed gable helmet. The west portal, which is stepped several times, is a Romanesque stepped portal, which is adorned in the combat zone by a braided band and a female and a male console head. The two heads represent either Adam and Eve or a couple of donors. The tympanum is a late Gothic fresco from around 1420/30, which shows Veronica's handkerchief held by two angels and two spiritual donors. The original tympanum relief was the Lamb of God , which is now walled in to the right of the portal. On the north side a round arched portal with medieval iron fittings on the door leads into the choir. In addition to the baroque overpainted Christophorus fresco on the south side of the nave, there are other traces of wall painting on the outside.
A flat ceiling with a curved stucco frame from the second half of the 18th century extends over the nave. The nave has three high Romanesque funnel windows on each of them and on the south side also a large window with the coat of arms of Hofmann von Wald in the reveal . A high, narrow, round-arched triumphal arch connects the nave with the choir. The originally flat roofed square choir yoke was provided with a late Gothic net rib vault in the 15th century. The fighters on the apse arch are decorated with braided ribbon. The Gothic stained glass in the apse window depicting the enthroned Madonna was made around 1420.
Murals
The interior of the church was decorated with frescoes in several stages from the late 14th century. According to the attached coat of arms, a part goes back to foundations of the Hofmann von Prägrad family, who were fiefs of the Gurk cathedral chapter. The frescoes were exposed in 1930 and 1940–1942, respectively. In the apse the Maiestas Domini is depicted with angels and evangelist symbols as well as twelve apostles. According to the inscription, it was painted by a master "hainricus" around 1390 and shows the influence of the Friulian Trecento painting . The depiction of Saint Leonhard with donor on the north wall of the choir square was made around 1430. On the southern triumphal arch wall, the ogival fresco shows a Pietà from around 1410 , which is probably flanked by an apostle and a holy abbot with donors. This is followed by a further ogival fresco on the eastern part of the south wall of the nave, which is broken through by a window. Saints Catherine and Barbara and an angel are shown. In the middle of the south wall of the nave, the “soft style” fresco shows the enthroned Mother of God with child, surrounded by four saints, who are probably Aegidius, Hemma, Kunigunde and Georg , and a group of donors at her feet. The painting, labeled 1421, is an early Sacra Conversazione notable outside Italy , an assembly of saints around a central figure, mostly Mary. The procession of the Three Kings painted around 1430 can be seen on the north wall of the nave .
Furnishing
In the choir is the high altar with a tabernacle structure and a painted baroque leather antependium . The left side altar with an aedicule over a small base and a split segment gable with a small aedicule as an attachment is marked 1669. The middle picture shows an angel holding a monstrance , the top picture shows the penitent Maria Magdalena and the predella a representation of Gurk. Also worth mentioning are a late Gothic crucifix from the first quarter of the 16th century hanging on the north wall of the nave, a late Gothic baptismal font, coat of arms grave slabs and a stone relief of a griffin or dragon chasing a hare in the west portal.
organ
The organ was built in 1890 by the organ builder Christian Gruber (Klagenfurt). The instrument has 9 registers on two manuals and a pedal . The playing and stop actions are mechanical.
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Cemetery chapel
To the east of the church is a cemetery chapel dedicated to Archangel Michael . The small Gothic building, first mentioned in documents in 1408, was originally a charnel house with a roofed crypt entrance in the southeast. The chapel supported by buttresses with a polygonal end conceals an ossuary in the eastern basement. The building has a gable tower in the west with a bell cast by Georg Fiering in 1610. The chapel is entered through a portal with a canopy on wooden pillars. In 1995 a late Gothic statue of the Virgin Mary was placed in an altar from the 18th century. The pictures of Saints Vitus and Pankraz , a guardian angel picture and some votive pictures hang on the walls .
literature
- Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia . Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 1104 f.
- Wilhelm Deuer, Johannes Grabmayer: Transromanica. In the footsteps of Romanesque in Carinthia, cultural hikes vol. 1 . Verlag Johannes Heyn, Klagenfurt 2008, ISBN 978-3-7084-0302-1 , p. 159 f.
- Gottfried Biedermann and Karin Leitner: Gothic in Carinthia - With photos by Wim van der Kallen . Carinthia Verlag, Klagenfurt 2001, ISBN 3-85378-521-2 , pp. 26 f., 167 f.
Individual evidence
- ↑ More information on the organ ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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Coordinates: 46 ° 52 ′ 1.2 " N , 14 ° 13 ′ 51.2" E