Trinity Church (Trofaiach)
The branch church of St. Dreifaltigkeit is a Roman Catholic church in Trofaiach in Styria.
history
As Salvatorkirche was mentioned in a document in 1195, the change to Trinity Church is assumed for the first half of the 16th century. The church was owned by the Traunkirchen women's monastery until 1448 . The current building is late Gothic from the 1st quarter of the 16th century, the tower is baroque. In 2008, the church was donated to the Baukulturstiftung (association for research and preservation of Austrian building culture).
There have always been two churches in Trofaiach since the Middle Ages. In addition to the Trinity Church, there is the Trofaiach parish church of St. Rupert, 350 meters to the north .
Church building
The four-bay nave has a ribbed vault on circular services on wall templates. The ogival, profiled front arch bears the date 1513. The two-bay choir with a 5/8 end is vaulted with a looped ribbed vault on round services, partly on consoles and slightly drawn in in the south. Rarely, because it is two-storey, the west gallery , according to the year 1753, the upper gallery is set back, with forwards and backwards swinging balustrade with bandwork and latticework. A round late Gothic stair tower in the north opens up the galleries. There are stepped buttresses on the outside of the nave and the choir, and the south wall of the nave has tracery windows. The west and south portal are ogival, the south portal shows the year 1497. The four-storey tower on the north choir is dated 1701 on the portal . The groin-vaulted tower ground floor is assumed to be Gothic and has an entrance to the choir and sacristy, both with wrought iron bars. The three upper floors of the tower were built in the middle of the 18th century and wear a rich helmet with two onions and two lanterns . The new northern sacristy from the 18th century has a groin vault. The old and small sacristy at the end of the choir has a ceiling stucco with a pearl rod and putti heads from the 17th century. A barrel-vaulted Loreto chapel was added to the south of the choir in 1713 .
Furnishing
The church contains rich furnishings in the early Rococo style. The columned high altar with gallery portals from 1752 and the side altars as well as the pulpit are attributed to the sculptor Matthäus Krenauer and were transferred here from the former Dominican church of the former Dominican monastery in Leoben in 1811 (chronogram of the reconstruction of the high altar is 1816) .
The miraculous image with the plastic group God the Father, Christ, Mary, Holy Spirit is the baroque copy of a Gothic statue.
This Gothic statue, which was made around 1420 in the vicinity of Hans von Judenburg, Judenburger Werkstatt, has been in the possession of the Metropolitan Museum in New York City since 1965 , where it is exhibited under the name "Coronation of the Virgin" under reference number 65212 becomes.
The essay picture St. Florian by Johann Baptist Scheit (h) is from 1752. The organ from 1595 is by Hanns Krihnchuber, rebuilt by Matthias Krainz in 1829.
literature
- Dehio Steiermark (excluding Graz) 1982 , Trofaiach, Filialkirche hl. Trinity, pp. 569--9.
- Brochure The Church of the Most Holy Trinity in Trofaiach , published by the Austrian Building Culture Foundation Graz in July 2012, Verlag für Collectors, ISBN 978-3-85365-253-4
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ ORF: Church becomes an event center ; Retrieved on Aug. 19, 2010
Coordinates: 47 ° 25 ′ 31.8 ″ N , 15 ° 0 ′ 32.7 ″ E