St. Margarethen in Reichenau
The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Margarethen in Reichenau in the village of Sankt Margarethen in the municipality of Reichenau is consecrated to St. Margaretha . The church was first mentioned in a document in 1307 and named as a parish church in 1433. For 1470 a visit from Emperor Friedrich III. attested in St. Margarethen. In the 17th and 18th centuries, St. Margarethen was only a vicariate church in Tiffen . In 1838 a fire damaged the church.
Building description
The church is a Gothic building from the end of the 15th century. The square vestibule tower with notches and arched sound openings was provided with a pointed gable helmet in the 19th century. A Gothic, pointed arched portal leads from the vestibule into the nave. The nave and the slightly retracted choir are supported by stepped buttresses . The windows have alternating tracery shapes . Only one original tracery window has survived from the construction period. The mural of St. Christopher on the south side of the nave was created in 1507. The sacristy and an adjoining wooden vestibule are attached to the north side of the church . On the north wall of the nave, inside the wooden vestibule, there are wall paintings of the Last Judgment , the Crucifixion and Saints Catherine , Barbara , Gothard and Blasius . They are partially whitewashed.
In the nave, a barrel vault with mesh ridges rests on polygonal pillars. The vault of the nave was painted with saints on consoles at the end of the 15th century. The Gothic organ loft from 1518 stands on four wooden pillars. On the gallery parapet, six Gothic ornamental fields with interwoven ribbons and tendrils have been preserved. Three fields with a figurative representation of St. Cecilia and a still life were created before 1856. The pointed triumphal arch is marked 1492. A Gothic ribbed vault rises above the two-bay choir, three steps higher, with a three- eighth end . A Gothic pointed arch portal leads into the sacristy, which has a barrel vault with stitch caps. In the choir there is a sacrament niche with an original wrought iron grille.
Portal between the vestibule and the nave
St. Christopher
Facility
The high altar from the second quarter of the 18th century with laterally swinging entablature supported by six columns fills the choir in height and width. The altarpiece with the church saint is flanked by the statues of the elegantly dressed saints Catherine and Barbara. The figures of two holy bishops from the first quarter of the 15th century stand above the sacrificial passage portals . The top picture shows St. George . A statuette of St. Florian serves as the top of the altar .
The two side altars date from the third quarter of the 17th century. The altar panel of the left altar shows the Assumption of Mary , the top tondo God the Father . Saint Sebastian and Nicholas are depicted on the right center image, Anna herself third in the essay tondo . The pulpit basket from the first quarter of the 18th century is now used as an ambo .
On the north wall of the choir is an unmounted wooden statue of St. Margarethe (20th century) attached.
Behind the high altar is a gravestone with a Roman epitaph for C. Cassius Maximus and Messia Belatussa. In the floor of the nave is the Gothic tombstone of Dorothee, Jacob Freiberger's widow, from 1466.
A picture of a Madonna with a splendid acanthus frame from 1696 belonging to the church is in safekeeping. A Vesper picture from the second half of the 15th century was stolen a few years ago.
The left side altar
The right side altar
Statue of St. Margarethe
literature
- Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia . Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 767 f.
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Coordinates: 46 ° 48 ′ 40.1 ″ N , 13 ° 53 ′ 27.8 ″ E