New Year's Chapel (Virgen)
The New Year's Chapel is a Roman Catholic chapel in the Welzelach fraction of the municipality of Virgen in East Tyrol . The chapel is consecrated to the holy bishop Silvester I and is one of 24 objects of the community under monument protection ( list entry ).
location
The chapel is located below the fraction on a small rock plinth above the Isel Gorge on the connecting road from Niedermauern to Welzelach. It is located at around 1180 m above sea level. A.
Building
The chapel was built in 1641 and was described as dilapidated in a document from the Virgen parish in 1822. In 1895 a sacristy was added to the chapel. For the rural population the church served as a place of pilgrimage to pray for the cattle.
The chapel has a rectangular floor plan and a polygonal choir with a 3/8 end. Outwardly without any structure and with a clapboard gable roof, it is only accentuated by the wooden roof turret, which is crowned by a ball, cross and weather valve. The roof turret itself also has arched sound openings and a shingle-roofed pyramid roof. The entrance to the chapel is through a round arch portal on the western gable front, with stairs leading from the street to the elevated chapel. There is a small viewing window next to the entrance portal, the sloping walls of the choir are each pierced by an arched window. In addition, the chapel has a south-facing, rectangular sacristy extension with a hilted gable roof.
The interior was not structured and the ceiling was clad with wood. The baroque main altar dates from 1737 and consists of twisted columns, entablature, essay and curved and broken gable . In the shrine of the main altar there is a figure of the patron saint of the chapel, and in the top there is an image of Saint Anne , Saint Joachim and Mary .
literature
- Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.): The art monuments of the political district of Lienz. Part III. Iseltal, Defereggental, Kalsertal, Virgental. Verlag Berger, Horn 2007 ISBN 978-3-85028-448-6 (Austrian Art Topography, Volume LVII), 465-469
- Meinrad Pizzinini : East Tyrol. The Lienz district. His works of art, historical forms of life and settlement. Verlag St. Peter, Salzburg 1974 (Austrian Art Monographs, Vol. VII) ISBN 3-900173-17-6
Coordinates: 47 ° 0 '2.6 " N , 12 ° 25' 8.6" E