Christ the King's Church (Graz-Raach)

Christ the King Church

The Christ the King's Church in Raach is a small Roman Catholic church in the 13th district of Gösting in  Graz . As a branch church it belongs to the parish Graz-Gösting (parish church St. Anna) in the dean's office Graz-Nord of the city ​​church Graz .

History and design

The Raach settlement is located in the extreme north-west of Graz. Immediately after the Second World War, a pastoral care center was set up in a barrack emergency church . Only in 1964 was this replaced by a brick church building. The design came from the architect Hermann Worschitz. The simple building has a bell tower, a simple hall with an open roof structure and a late Baroque sandstone statue of the Virgin in an ear dress, which came from the "Siebenbründl Column" erected in 1757. The bronze crucifix was created by the artist Alexander Silveri .

literature

• Alois Kölbl, Wiltraud Resch: Paths to God. The churches and synagogue of Graz . 2nd, expanded and supplemented edition. Styria, Graz / Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-222-13105-8 , pp. 206 .
• Horst Schweigert : Graz (= The art monuments of Austria . = Dehio -Handbuch Graz. = Dehio Graz. ). Revision. Schroll, Vienna 1979, ISBN 3-7031-0475-9 , p. 237.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kölbl, Resch: Paths to God. P. 206.
2. ^ Schweigert: Dehio Graz. P. 237.

Coordinates: 47 ° 6 ′ 39.5 ″  N , 15 ° 22 ′ 18.9 ″  E