Rupertikirche (Söbriach)
The Roman Catholic Rupertikirche Söbriach in the municipality Obervellach is a branch church of the parish Obervellach . The church, first mentioned in 1496, was renovated in 1824 and restored in 1946.
Building description
The house of God is a late Gothic church with a Romanesque core that was later redesigned in Baroque style . Romanesque opus spicatum was found in the walls of the nave . The church consists of a three-axle nave with a pillar arbor and a one-bay choir with a three-eighth end. The tower with ogival sound windows is crowned by a pointed gable helmet. There is a stone sacrificial table in the arbor.
The nave has a flat ceiling with a surrounding cornice. The wooden gallery with a parapet structured like a pilaster stands on pillars. A stuccoed triumphal arch with acanthus branches connects the nave with the choir. A groin vault rises above the chancel with pilasters .
Facility
The high altar with sacrificial portals was built around 1680. The middle picture from the 18th century shows Saints Rupert and Leonhard , the upper picture shows the Holy Trinity . On the tabernacle is a Rococo statuette of a female saint. The console figures of Holy New Year's Eve and a guardian angel , made around 1700, are placed on the triumphal arch . On the right side altar there is a figurine of the risen Christ, a Johannes Nepomuk from the first half of the 18th century, a holy Rupert from the 17th century, a rosary with a Madonna in an angelic halo and a God the Father made around 1700 . On the south wall of the nave there is a wooden figure of the Man of Sorrows from the 16th century in a small late baroque showcase . A carved figure of St. Michael from the end of the 17th century is kept in the sacristy .
literature
- Georg Dehio (first), Ernst Bacher u. a. (Ed.): Carinthia ( The Art Monuments of Austria ). Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 884 f.
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Coordinates: 46 ° 56 ′ 18.5 " N , 13 ° 9 ′ 51.2" E