Christkönigskirche

The Christkönigskirche in Klagenfurt is part of the parish of St. Egid.It was erected in 1931 and 1932 according to Karl Holey’s ideas, and Bishop Hefter consecrated it in 1932.

The Christkönigkirche is a single-nave, tower-less hall building connected to the diocesan house building complex with its east side, which is now closing.The portal has a straight end and three narrow high windows with round arches on the west facade in green chlorite slate masonry.The nave walls also have the same window pattern.Between 1993 and 1995, Tomas Hoke sculpted the stainless steel angel in front of the main entrance.

Inside, Hans Fischer painted frescoes on the soffit ceiling.The birth of Christ, the Last Supper, the Crucifixion, and angels are all depicted.Heinrich Tahedl’s entrance front’s original stained glass windows were destroyed and rebuilt in 1991 by his daughter Ernestine Tahedl.

The high altar, which was built in 1675, was taken from the previous St. Veiter Bürgerspitalskirche.The altar has outward-facing volutes on the gable and a little aedicule as an attachment, with colossal triumphal arch architecture, a high, divided base, and sacrificial doors.The twisted column shafts are embellished with pearl threads and cartilaginous fittings.The main artwork depicts the mercy seat and is flanked by John the Evangelist and John the Baptist sculptures.The essay is a painting by Hans Fischer that represents Christ’s regal crown atop the Book of the Seven Seals. Wilhelm Bormann designed the brass embossed tabernacle.During Lent, a Lenten cloth from the second half of the 16th century, originally from the Maria Bichl church near Feicht, covers the altar.

Wilhelm Bormann constructed four side altars on the nave’s side walls, which were destroyed in 1971.The altars of Emma and the Virgin Mary are on the north wall, and the Evangelists’ and Carinthian saints’ altars are on the south wall.The relief sculptures were sculpted of fired and glazed clay by artist Wilhelm Bormann from plans by Karl Holey and manufactured in the Wienerberger brick plant.The four baroque apostle sculptures on consoles are from the parish church of Lieseregg.

Krenn, an organ building business, created the instrument in 1981.The instrument has 26 registers spread between two manuals and a pedal.The movements are mechanical.