Pilgrimage Church of Maria Gail
The pilgrimage church Maria Gail is a church in the town of the same name south of Villach in Carinthia .
history
The church is mentioned for the first time in the founding document of the St. Gallus monastery in Moggio Udinese ( Friuli ) (text passage: "Villis in plebe sanctae Mariae de Villach" , village in the parish of St. Mary of Villach ) and is dated to the year 1136 . The originally Romanesque choir tower church was enlarged around 1450; at that time the late Gothic ribbed vault , the organ loft , the Anna chapel and the presbytery were built . During the Turkish wars in the 15th century, the church was desecrated and destroyed in a Turkish invasion in 1478. The "Turkish Bell" still preserved today dates from this time. After the reconstruction, the church was consecrated again in 1486. In 1580 the church tower collapsed due to neglected building fabric. In the 16th century the Maria Gailer pilgrimage church was reformed like the other churches in the country and remained under the Lutheran aegis for several decades .
Building
On the southern outer walls of the church there are remarkable stone sculptures. The depiction of the Archangel Michael with sword and soul scales as well as another angel with trumpet and cross is probably the partial view of a Last Judgment . The relief was probably created before 1300. The vault of the nave shows a net rib structure with decorative painting in the central fields. The choir ends at three-eighths .
Pen drawing of the pilgrimage church Maria Gail (1889)
Relief of the Archangel Michael and another angel
Sculpture of St. George
Facility
The oldest elements of the furnishings are well-preserved late Romanesque frescoes from the second half of the 13th century on the nave walls , which were uncovered in the course of restoration work in 1949/50. They show the passion of Christ, depictions of the risen Christ and the burial of Mary .
The Baroque high altar is a shrine -Altar. In the shrine there is a carved protective cloak Madonna with child from around 1600 as a miraculous image of the pilgrimage church . Assistance figures are Saint Sebastian pierced by arrows on the left and Rochus with a plague bump on the right. Further figures show the apostles Peter on the left and John on the right. On the sacrificial passage portals are St. George and on the right St. Florian .
The late Gothic winged altar , consisting of rich carvings, is significant, and as one of the last works of the Villach School, it is probably the most perfect work of art. It was created between 1505 and 1515. The central motif is the coronation of Mary; it is framed on the wings by motifs from the life of Mary. The outside of the wings are painted with motifs from the life of Jesus. Art historians assign these paintings to the master of the Lazarin Altar of Veronica . The predella shows Saint Anne herself in filigree wood carving .
High altar with Madonna in protective cloak
Gothic side altar
Back of the left wing
Back of the right wing
In addition to a baptismal font of Romanesque origin and music-making angels on the vault of the Anna Chapel, the two baroque side altars are worth mentioning. On the north wall are late Gothic statues of a Madonna and Child and Saints. Barbara and Margareta attached.
Left side altar
Right side altar
Statues of a Madonna and Child as well as St. Barbara and Margareta
literature
- Dehio Carinthia 2001 . Verlag Anton Schroll & Co., Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , pp. 499-502
- Siegfried Hartwagner: Parish and pilgrimage church To Our Lady an der Gail (art guide)
- Mirko Hofer: The church on the Gail. Chronicle of the parish and pilgrimage church Maria Gail . Self-published, 1990
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Coordinates: 46 ° 35 ′ 57.7 " N , 13 ° 52 ′ 35.2" E