Kirche Srejach

The Pankratiuskirche stands in Srejach, a hamlet beside the Klopeiner See in southern Kärnten. It is a small late-Gothic church, first mentioned in 1454, with a narrow nave under a steep roof and a single-aisled choir supported by buttresses. A little belfry crowns the ridge, and a painted fresco of Saint Christopher adorns the south wall. The open porch shelters a pointed Gothic west door, while inside the nave is divided into two bays with a net-ribbed vault springing from corbels.

The church is worth visiting for its well-preserved late-Gothic and early-Renaissance art. The high altar of 1644 shows Saint Pankratius flanked by two Jesuit saints and, above, Saints Lawrence and Barbara. A side altar from about 1720 holds a 16th-century statue of the same saint, rescued from the porch. On the north wall of the choir hangs a large Last Judgement painted in 1609, and nearby a late-15th-century Crucifixion has been partially overpainted.

Inside, the two-bay nave meets the single-bay choir through a pointed triumphal arch. The choir ends in a three-sided apse with net-ribbed vaulting on round shafts and traceried windows. A small iron-plated door leads from the choir to the sacristy. On the south side of the arch stands a panel of Saint Leonard, while the northern apse wall carries a contemporary scene of the Flagellation. The whole interior is calm and orderly, lit by the clear windows of the choir.