Friedhofskapelle Mailberg

The Friedhofskirche heilige Kunigunde stands on a hill north of Mailberg village, facing the castle across the settlement. A Romanesque nave is all that remains of the original church; the northern Gothic extension with its three-sided apse dates from the 14th century. The whole structure, covered by a single roof, is enclosed by a cemetery wall and protected as a listed monument. The church is worth visiting for its layered architecture. The west front shows a Romanesque round-arched portal on the south side and a Gothic octagonal tower on the north, both topped with a triangular crenellated crown. Inside, the Romanesque south aisle meets the Gothic north aisle through two broad, chamfered arches, while the north aisle is vaulted in ribbed Gothic style. A small Romanesque window survives in the south wall, and a polygonal stone pulpit from the 14th century bears carved images of Saints Peter, Paul and Christ. Visitors find the Romanesque nave under a flat Baroque ceiling, ending in a shallow niche where the apse once stood. The Gothic choir holds a stone altar with a wooden Madonna to the left and a statue of Saint Sebastian to the right. A late-18th-century group of the Crucifixion hangs in the Romanesque aisle, flanked by Baroque angels. Two iron bells hang in the tower, one still rung by hand. Outside, red-marble and relief gravestones from the 17th and 18th centuries are set into the cemetery wall.