Trinity Church (Graz)
The Holy Trinity Church is a Roman Catholic church in the first Grazer district Inner City . It is located between Schlossbergplatz and Murkai in Sackstrasse .
A monastery building ( former Ursuline monastery ) and a school building (today Sister Klara Fietz Volksschule ) of the Graz school sisters are connected to the church in the northwest .
history
The church, originally called the Ursuline Church, was built from 1694 to 1704 by Bartholomäus Ebner for the Sisters of the Ursulines . The founding of the monastery was approved by Emperor Leopold I in 1686. The former city moat used to be at the site where the Trinity Church stands today. Between 1687 and 1694 five houses of the second sack were bought and demolished for the monastery complex . After the construction of a chapel for the dead (1694/95), the foundation stone was laid in 1696. The plans for the construction of the Ursuline Monastery, which lasted from 1700 to 1722, came from Anton Leithner. The consecration of the sacred building took place in 1704 and was carried out by Prince-Bishop Franz Anton Adolph von Wagensperg .
At the time of the Josephine reforms, the monastery of the Ursulines was spared the dissolution due to the teaching activities of the sisters. The complex was in 1900 in the possession of the Franciscans - Institute of the School Sisters to Graz , today Congregation of the Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate Conception , over, the Ursulines in the newly built convent in the Leonhardstraße relocated. The Benefiziatenhaus, completed in 1699, was also demolished in 1900. The Trinity Church was spared changes.
Today the church is subordinate to the parish Graz-Mariä Himmelfahrt (Franciscan Church) , which is looked after by the Franciscans , and belongs to the dean's office Graz-Mitte of the city church Graz .
Architecture and design
The church was built in the style of the Italian Baroque and corresponds to the type of a pilaster church (like the Jesuit church Il Gesù in Rome). However, it is characterized by a transition from the French to the domestic building tradition and is thus a typical representative of the so-called Habsburg Baroque, an expression of the South German-Austrian Baroque. The front facade is characterized by monumental columns, a cornice and a semicircular gable with lateral volutes . Above the portal is a sculpture of the Archangel Michael in armor with the balance of the Last Judgment . In the side niches are the statues of Mary and Joseph . The pediment is dominated by a representation of the Holy Trinity , with God the Father and Jesus Christ in the center. Above it, the Holy Spirit is shown in the form of a stucco dove. A slender wooden roof turret with an onion roof closes the gable on the Mur side.
The interior of the church has a uniform baroque interior. The vaulted church space is accompanied by side chapels with galleries. The high altar has another representation of the Trinity. Between the columns there are sculptures of the four church fathers: Gregory the Great , Hieronymus , Ambrosius and Augustine . The angular and therefore unusual for the Baroque pulpit was donated by the Princess von Eggenberg. The sound roof is crowned by a half-length figure of God the Father. On the middle south side altar there is a picture of St. Ursula , the namesake of the Ursuline order.
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. 104-106 .
- Horst Schweigert : Graz (= The art monuments of Austria . = Dehio -Handbuch Graz. = Dehio Graz. ). Revision. Schroll, Vienna 1979, ISBN 3-7031-0475-9 , pp. 31-33.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sister Klara Fietz Volksschule ( Memento of the original from March 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Schweigert: Dehio Graz. P. 31.
Inner City: Cathedral | Antoniuskirche | Trinity Church | Franciscan Church | Katharinenkirche | City Parish Church | Staircase church
Left bank of the Mur: Barack Church Graz-Liebenau | Brother Klaus Church | St. Christoph | Church of Christ the Risen | Church of the Redeemer in the State Hospital | Ev. Church of the Redeemer (Liebenau) | Grabenkirche | Ev. Heilandskirche | Church Holy Family | Sacred Heart Church | Ev. St. John's Church | Joseph Church | Carmelite Church Maria Schnee | Carmelite Church of St. Joseph | Kreuzschwesternkirche | Leechkirche | Leonhard Church | Mariatrost Basilica | Church of Mary Green | Church of the Annunciation | Mater Dolorosa | Münzgrabenkirche | St. Paul (Liebenau) | St. Paul (Waltendorf) | St. Peter | Parish Church of St. Veit Salvatorkirche | Ulrichsbrunn
Right bank of the Mur: All Saints Church | Retirement home church | Old Catholic Church | Andräkirche | Anna Church Graz-Gösting | Institution Church of the Holy Cross in the LKH Graz II location south | Church of Mercy | Church of the Sisters of Mercy | Bürgerspitalkirche | Cholera Chapel | Christ the King's Church (Raach) | Parish Church of Christ the King (Wetzelsdorf) | Ev. Christ Church | Don Bosco Church | Elizabethine Church | Elisabeth Church | Florian Church | Church of the Crucified Savior | Castle Chapel Gösting | Good Shepherdess Monastery Church | St. John's Church | Church of Johann and Paul | Kalvarienbergkirche | Karlauerkirche | Ev. Kreuzkirche | St. Leopold | St. Luke | Mariahilferkirche | Maria in misery at Straßgang | Castle Church of St. Martin | Ruperti Church | Lazarist Church | School Sisters Church | Guardian Angel Church | Synagogue | Church of the Fourteen Holy Helpers | Vincent Church | Welsche Church
Parish churches: Graz- Holy Blood (provost, main and city parish church) | Graz- Hlgst. Trinity | Graz- Herz Jesu • | • Graz-Dom St. Agidius (Dompfarre, Graz-Seckau Cathedral) | Graz- St. Andrä • | • Graz- Assumption of Mary (Franciscan Church ) | Graz- Mariä Mariahilf
Local chaplainies, rectorates, pastoral care offices, curate beneficiaries, benefit: Hl. Geist (Bürgerspitalkirche) • | • Hl. Laurentius (Elisabetinenkirche) | St. Paul (Stiegenkirche) • | • Assumption of Mary (Leechkirche, University Church) | Annunciation ( Church of Mercy, Garrison Church)
Branch churches: Ss. Trinity with the Franciscan Sisters • | • St. Anthony of Padua | St. Catherine in the mausoleum | St. Luke
Mess chapels, chapels: St. Trinity (Episcopal House Chapel) • | • St. Anthony with the Franciscans | St. Barbara in the cathedral | St. Barbara in the Domherrenhof | St. Bonaventure (baptistery, Triebenegg'sche crypt chapel) | St. James with the Franciscans | St. John Baptist in the Joanneum | St. Joseph with the Franciscans | Saint Rafael at the Brothers of Mercy Hospital | St. Romuald in the Cathedral • | • Immaculate Conception in the seminary | Mariahilf with the Minorites (Treasury Chapel) | Assumption in the country house | Loreto Chapel in the Barmherzigenkirche • | • Chapel in the Aloisianum | Friedrichskapelle in the cathedral | Chapel in the John Ogilvie house
Religious offices: Provincial House of School Sisters (Franciscan Sisters) FIC | Franciscan monastery OFM | Minorite Convent Mariahilf OFMConv | Convention / Postulate of the Brothers of Mercy OH | Elisabethinenkonvent OSE | John Ogilvie home of the Jesuits SJ
Coordinates: 47 ° 4 ′ 22.4 " N , 15 ° 26 ′ 8.7" E