Karner (Barbara chapel), Mauthausen
Southeast of the church is the ossuary (Karner, Barbara Chapel). This was built in the 13th century and dedicated to Saint Barbara, the patroness of the dying. There are no depictions of saints in the chapel, since wooden figures or paintings are probably attached. The chapel now serves as a mortuary. It is a Romanesque rotunda covered by an octagonal pyramidal roof. The actual ossuary is in the basement and is filled with bones.
The fresco on the south side shows St. Christopher with the Christ Child on his shoulders, above it two colored coats of arms with the motto of Emperor Friedrich III. or with the year 148x. In the apse, the late Romanesque arched window has been preserved, which today has a stained glass window by Lydia Roppolt from 1981. The interior, which has a small apse to the east, has a late Romanesque ribbed vault. The figural wall paintings determine the effect of the room and represent the earliest surviving decoration of a sacred room in the Mühlviertel. The frescoes were created around 1260 and were uncovered again in 1907. They are among the main works of the so-called Zackenstil or jagged style, which has its roots in Byzantine art. The Zackenstil found above all in the illumination
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