St. Martin (Karnberg)
The St. Martin branch church is located in Karnberg north of the Ulrichsberg in the municipality of Sankt Veit an der Glan in Carinthia. The church, first mentioned in 1407, is a daughter church of Projern. In a meadow near the church, a mass is celebrated with the bishop of Gurk as part of the four-mountain run .
Building
The small Gothic church surrounded by a cemetery wall was changed in the 19th century. The presented west tower from 1878 has round-arched sound openings and is crowned with a pointed helmet. The southern wall of the nave, which is essentially Gothic, was extended to the western side of the tower in the 19th century. On the northern part of the west wall of the nave , a Gothic fresco of a saint figure, probably Saint Martin, was uncovered. The paintings from the second quarter of the 15th century have a stylistic similarity with the Epiphany from Zweinitz. A relief fragment from the Roman period depicting a dancing maenad is attached to this picture . A late Gothic fresco of St. Christopher was uncovered on the north facade in 1998 , which is fragmented by a window opening in the Baroque period .
The church is entered through the west portal with the arch pressed. A needle cap barrel arches over the nave , which is divided into three yokes by belt arches over cranked pilasters . A round-arched triumphal arch with profiled fighters connects the nave with the choir. The one-yoke choir with a needle cap barrel has a 5/8 end . A straight lintel portal leads from the south side of the choir into the barrel-vaulted sacristy .
Facility
The high altar, created around 1680, is an aedicular altar with a blown segmented gable, fluted columns with cherub heads and fruit hangings and richly carved ears on the sides with early acanthus and flower motifs. St. Martin is depicted on the central picture , the statue of St. Margaret is in the altarpiece .
On the left wall of the choir arch there is a late Gothic winged altar made around 1520 as a successor to the Villach school. In the shrine, Mary and the baby Jesus are flanked by the holy virgins Katharina and Barbara . The bas-reliefs of the outer wings show the plague saints Rochus and Sebastian . The Annunciation to Mary is painted on the outside of the wing . In the altarpiece stands the church patron with the goose. This sculpture is believed to come from an older main altar from the 15th century.
On the opposite side there is an aedicule altar, created around 1660, with a volute gable, twisted columns with vine tendrils and side ears. The altar panel shows the apostles Peter and Andrew . In the gable is the figure of St. Michael with the scales of the soul and above another representation of St. Margaret. The furnishings also include a console statue of the Apostle Andrew and a canvas picture marked 1712, which thematizes the good and the bad confession.
literature
- Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia . Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 334 f.
- Wilhelm Wadl: The four-mountain run. History - meaning - process . Verlag Johannes Heyn, Klagenfurt 2003, ISBN 3-7084-0011-9 , p. 18.
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Coordinates: 46 ° 42 ′ 39.6 ″ N , 14 ° 17 ′ 32 ″ E