Rector's Church St. Elisabeth (Klagenfurt)
The Rectorate Church of St. Elisabeth is the former parish church of St. Lorenzen and is located on Völkermarkter Straße in Klagenfurt . The consecration title of the church is St. Lorenz , the patronage St. Elisabeth .
history
The church was built from 1720 to 1732 as a convent church of the Elisabethinenkloster and was sponsored by Archduchess Marianne , who lived in the current episcopal residence from 1768 until her death in 1789. In 1784 the sacred building became a suburban church and in 1853 an independent parish church. In 2010, Bishop Alois Schwarz abolished the parish and incorporated it into the cathedral parish .
Building description
The church is a north-facing , baroque, longitudinal central building with a cross-shaped floor plan. The sober exterior of the church is dominated by the tower with a curved pointed helmet on the southwest corner. A rocaille and the year 1730 can be seen in the gable above the former south-facing entrance portal .
The originally well-proportioned interior is impaired in its effect by the enlarged organ loft with arches below the barrel and the three-bay choir, which was lengthened by two bays in 1962. A barrel vault with stitch caps rises in the choir and in the area of the organ gallery . The domed Patzl vault in the central square was painted in 1890 by Josef Veiter with the Coronation of Mary and the four evangelists . Richly cranked cornice on pilasters , blind arcades and wall recesses divide the walls. The short cross arms of the nave are barrel vaulted. Three high, arched windows with lunette windows above them on the west wall of the choir and four arched or segmented windows on the south wall illuminate the interior of the church.
Facility
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The wall-filling, flat high altar from 1784 bears a crucifixion picture painted by a Knoller in 1778 and an upper picture with the martyrdom of St. Lawrence, restored by Josef Veiter. The late Baroque tabernacle , designed as a domed building with columns, shows a relief with the Descent from the Cross on the door. On the side are two reliquary containers from around 1700 with miniature images of the princes of the apostles Peter and Paul in rich actanthus frames . The two large, kneeling angels were created by Michael Zill in 1786.
The two side altars with columns and volutes were made around 1730. The left side altar shows the images of the Descent from the Cross and St. Joseph as well as the statues of St. Peter and Paul and the top of St. Dominic , Francis and Raphael . The glass shrine from 1749 contains the bones of St. Clare . The altar sheet of the right side altar with St. Elisabeth donating alms was painted by Josef Veiter in 1884, the top picture shows St. Anne with Mary. The altar figures represent King David and probably St. Leonhard as well as St. Monika , Clare and an angel in the essay .
A baroque console figure of St. John Nepomuk from 1729 is attached to the east wall . The baptismal font in the choir has a classicist wooden tower and an Anabaptist group. In the crypt, built in 1786 by order of Archduchess Marianne, there is a four-figure crucifixion group made of lead from around 1780 , which is attributed to Balthasar Ferdinand Moll .
Left side altar
Right side altar
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literature
- Georg Dehio (greeting), Gabriele Russwurm-Biró (editing): Carinthia ( Austria's art monuments ). Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 363 f.
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Coordinates: 46 ° 37 ′ 33.4 " N , 14 ° 18 ′ 57.4" E