Virger Widum
The Virger Widum is the Roman Catholic rectory of the Virgen parish in the Virgen-Dorf fraction, the capital of the Virgen community in the Lienz district ( Tyrol) . The Widum has a medieval core and is one of the municipality's 24 objects under monument protection ( list entry ).
history
The Widum is located southwest of the town center or the Virger parish church on the road to Niedermauern (Niedermauern Straße 22). Since, according to documentary evidence, there was a parish in Virgen in the 12th century, the first widum in Virgen must have already existed at this time. Today's parsonage was occupied by Valentin Fercher in 1609, who took up the parish office in Virgen in 1595 and was also the caretaker of the Kienburg estate . According to documentary records, the rectory previously served as a hunting lodge for the Gorizians, although the sundial dated 1647 could be related to a post-Gothic renovation and the redesign of the ribbed vault.
Building
The building has an almost rectangular floor plan and two to three storeys due to the hillside location. The outer walls consist of plastered and whitewashed stone masonry, with the windows having plastering flaps with subsequently attached ears . The building was expanded in different epochs through additions and conversions as well as heights and has a recent extension in the west. The sundial with a semicircular sun and rays, kneeling angels and a flanking skull under a bell, as well as a five-sided bay window and three so-called earthquake pillars made of natural stone masonry are particularly striking on the south facade. On the west facade, the old structure can be clearly recognized by a horizontal ledge above the first floor. Due to its location, the north facade on the slope has only two floors with two window axes in the old structure. The new building is set apart from the rest of the building by a 2 meter wide recess.
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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), 420-422
- 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 ′ 9.4 ″ N , 12 ° 27 ′ 23 ″ E