Augsdorf Parish Church

Augsdorf’s Roman Catholic parish church is located in the town of Augsdorf, in the market town of Velden am Wörther See, in the Carinthian district of Villach-Land.The parish church of the Queen of the Rosary is part of the Rosegg/Roek deanery in the Diocese of Gurk-Klagenfurt.Monument protection applies to both the church and the cemetery with the chapel.

The former fortified church is on the northern outskirts of town, encircled on three sides by a moat and only accessible from the south.In 1162/1164, an altar consecration with Bishop Roman I of Gurk (1131-1167) was reported, and the bishop’s seal was discovered in 1906 when the altar table was removed.During the Turkish invasions towards the end of the 15th century, another massive tower was erected to the Romanesque church edifice.The Romanesque nave was enlarged with Gothic aisles and a Gothic choir was erected in the middle of the 16th century.In 1707, a cemetery was established around the church.Interior restoration began in 1974.

The Romanesque church structure was made up of a nave with a straight chancel and a flat ceiling.The west tower includes gables and a pyramidal helmet, as well as biforene sound windows.An open porch may be found to the west of the tower.The southern side of the tower has a Crucifixion group by the early twentieth-century painter Peter Markovi.A sacristy is situated to the south of the Gothic choir and the nave’s corner.The pointed and profiled Gothic west entrance in the tower.The round arch of the Gothic west gateway in the southern aisle.Gothic lancet windows grace the choir.A wrought iron grave cross from circa 1720 may be found on the west side of the church.

The three-bay central nave is linked to the Gothic side aisles by round-arched arcades supported by massive pillars.The barrel vaults with lunettes in the central nave are complemented by ridged cross vaults in the lateral aisles.The tower’s three-axis west gallery has a level lower ceiling and a curved balustrade.The triumphal arch is pointed when it is retracted.On circular services, the retractable one-bay choir with a five-eighth note carries a ribbed vault.On the north side of the choir, a Gothic sacramental niche with a lattice is created.The chancel includes a Romanesque sacristy doorway with an iron plate door on the south side.

Around 1700, the baroque high altar with columns and exquisite acanthus design was erected. The tabernacle dates from the late 18th century.A baroque carving of the Madonna of the Protective Mantle from the end of the 17th century can be found on the high altar’s central niche.The relief Last Supper was made by Val Gardena sculptor Josef Obletter for the antependium of the former neo-Gothic high altar from 1906.

The left side altar, with an aedicule above a small base with lateral console figures and columns decorated with vine leaves and cartilage and scrollwork from the end of the 17th century, holds the central statue of Michael and on the sides Katharina and Barbara, as well as a picture of the Trinity.The right side altar, with columns and acanthus from the end of the 17th century, holds the figure of Oswald and exhibits the picture of the Good Shepherd in the top part.

The Stations of the Cross (1915) by Peter Markovi were inspired by the Führich Stations of the Cross.

Josef Grafenauer (1904) created the organ.In 1453, Rupert Dringer names a bell. In 1687, Mathias Landsmann names a bell.