St. Nicholas (Liesing)
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The Roman Catholic parish church in Liesing in the municipality of Lesachtal ( Carinthia ) is consecrated to St. Nicholas . The parish churches of Klebas, Niedergail, Obergail , Oberring and Tscheltsch also belong to the parish of Liesing .
history
A church in Liesing was first mentioned in 1321. In 1429 Liesing was raised to a parish . After a Turkish invasion , the church was consecrated in 1485 by Pietro Carlo, the Bishop of Caorle . In the 18th century the vault, the windows and the portal were renewed. In 1869 the sacred building was renovated in a neo-baroque style and re-gothicized during the restoration from 1962 to 1965.
Building
The medium-sized building consists of a three-bay nave with a high pitched roof and a lower, two-bay, recessed choir with a 3/8 end. The nave is supported on the north and south sides by two stepped buttresses , the choir is supported by triangular struts. The Christophorus fresco on the north choir wall dates from the beginning of the 16th century and was restored in 1936.
The massive tower with pilaster decor from 1800 adjoins the choir to the south. It has a high basement in which the sacristy is located, loopholes , windows with tracery noses and in the pointed gable fields two-part keel-arch sound windows with central columns. It is crowned by a pointed helmet.
A war memorial is housed in the large pillar vestibule . The statues of Christ in Sorrows and Saint Anthony of Padua stand in niches . Three busts of saints are painted in recessed fields. There is also a modern wooden statue of Niklaus von Flüe in the vestibule.
The church is entered through the baroque west portal with a late baroque wooden door.
During the Baroque era, the Gothic vault ribs in the nave were chipped off; in the 20th century the ribs were painted again in an illusionistic way. The grooved Gothic wall pillars with round services have been preserved .
A retracted triumphal arch, which is pointed and chamfered, connects the nave with the choir. A hollow vault with stitch caps extends over semicircular wall templates above the choir . The baroque ceiling paintings from the late 18th century in the choir show two angels with a cross in the middle and Moses and St. Sophia to the side .
A chamfered pointed arch portal leads from the southern choir wall into the sacristy with its late Gothic star rib vault . A papal letter of indulgence is affixed above the sacristy door. The late baroque composite arched windows of the choir were re-glazed in 1922, the renewed lancet windows in the nave in 1935/36.
The two-storey, masonry west gallery has a Gothic-style wooden parapet, which, like the pews, was made by Josef Sulzenbacher and Georg Stöffler.
Facility
The middle picture of the late Baroque high altar shows Saints Nicholas, Peter and Margaret . Angels hold a model of St. Peter's Basilica above the saint . The central image is flanked by the statues of Saints Joseph and John the Baptist . Fanz Xaver and Katharina von Siena stand above the sacrificial portals . The angels above the center picture hold a cartouche with the inscription "Jesus is wonderful in his saints". God the Father sits on the blasted segment gable . St Paul and a saint stand above the two protruding pillars .
Four carved reliefs from the former late Gothic high altar are attached to the two choir walls. They were made around 1520 in the workshop of Rupert Potsch from Brixen . It shows scenes from the legend of St. Nicholas : the rescue of a ship in a storm, the grain donation for Myra, the three virgins and the golden apples. Three other figures from the former high altar, Saints Nicholas, Peter and Margareta, are in custody and are placed on the high altar on public holidays.
The late Gothic carved figure of St. Nicholas on the north choir wall dates from the middle of the 15th century, the carved Vesper picture on the north nave wall from 1400.
The two neo-Gothic side altars, like the pulpit, were made by Thomas Waldner in 1868/69. The central figure of the left altar is a Maria Immaculata created by Josef Bachleitner in 1930 . The two statuettes on the side, probably Gothic, represent St. Margaret and a Pope , Peter or Zacharias .
On the right side altar is a scenic depiction of Christ on the cross as well as Mary and John from the 19th century. The Gothic statuettes in the adjacent niches represent John the Evangelist and probably St. Chrysanthus . The paintings on the pulpit depict Christ with a book, the Apostles Peter, Paul, Andrew and James the Elder .
organ
In 1903 the organ builder Albert Mauracher (Salzburg) built an organ with 10 stops on a manual and pedal and a pneumatic action . In 1922 the organ builder Caecilia (Salzburg) shortened the height of the instrument and placed it again on the newly built upper gallery. This location proved to be acoustically unsatisfactory. In the course of the interior renovation of the church, the instrument was sold to the Benedictine abbey on the island of Mjlet in Croatia and placed there again, while a new organ was erected on the lower gallery in St. Nicholas. The instrument was built in 2004 by the organ builder Ferdinand Salomon (Vienna-Leobendorf). It has 14 stops on two manuals and a pedal. The playing and stop action is mechanical . The housing is kept in green and red colors.
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- Coupling : manual sliding coupler I / II, II / P.
literature
- Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia . Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 467 f.
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Individual evidence
Coordinates: 46 ° 41 ′ 32.7 " N , 12 ° 48 ′ 59.4" E