Evangelical Elisabeth Church (Murau)
The Evangelical Elisabeth Church in Murau is the spiritual center of the Evangelical Parish AB Murau-Lungau, Evangelical Superintendentur AB Styria . In addition to the political Styrian district of Murau , the parish also includes Lungau in Salzburg .
history
The church, located on the town side by the Marktbrücke, was first mentioned in a document as the hospital church of St. Elisabeth in 1329 and redesigned in the 17th century. From the start of the Reformation around 1528 to the Counter Reformation and the expulsion of the Protestants in 1599, it was a Protestant church. Under Emperor Joseph II it was profaned and auctioned in 1789 . In 1923 a wooden floor was put in and the building was used as a gymnasium until 1975 and as a table tennis hall until 1977.
Due to the tolerance patent of 1781 by Emperor Joseph II, the Protestant Christians, who previously could only maintain a secret Protestantism in the underground, were again allowed to found so-called tolerance communities. After Murau was also looked after by various parishes, it came to the Judenburg parish , which was re-established that year , and became a preaching station in 1966 . In 1985 the Judenburg subsidiary Murau was founded.
The city of Murau had made a room available as a prayer room since 1920. From 1979, after almost 200 years, the Elisabethkirche could be consecrated again as a worthy worship space. Parts of the church were adapted as an evangelical diocesan museum.
In 2002 Karel Schwarzenberg's Elisabethkirche became the property of the Protestant community for a symbolic amount.
architecture
The early baroque three-bay hall dates from 1628 to 1644. In the east of the tower and sacristy, Gothic components of the previous church have been preserved, as well as the tall, narrow pointed arch windows in the south wall of the nave . The nave has a barrel vault on pillars with stitch caps and stucco fields with pearl and egg bar frames from around 1640, ascribed to Giuseppe Pazarino . The tower, positioned on the northeast corner, has coupled arched sound windows and a baroque hood. The sacristy in the southeast corner has a Gothic south window and a heavy ribbed vault with a leaf rosette as a keystone .
Under the nave there is a lower church with a square vault on girders .
Furnishing
The church contains a classical pulpit altar, a church stalls, a small transportable organ and some smaller works of art.
use
Currently (2014) there is a service on the 2nd and 4th Sunday of each month. The Evangelical Diocesan Museum in Styria , which reopened in 2013, is located in the lower church . The church can also be visited when visiting the Diocesan Museum. The museum was established in 1979 and until the renovation in 2013 was located in an area of the church separated by a glass wall and a curtain.
After years with half a pastor's position, the parish has been co-administered as an administrator since 2012 by the pastor of the Protestant community in Judenburg . In September 2014 he was officially introduced to his office as pastor of Murau and then looks after both parishes as a parish association.
Web links
- (rudimentary) website of the parish
- Website of the mother parish Judenburg
- Facebook page of the Evangelical Parish AB Murau-Lungau
- Website of the Diocesan Museum
Individual evidence
- ^ History. Evangelische Pfarrgemeinde Judenburg: evang-judenburg.eu → About us (accessed November 26, 2016).
- ↑ Christian Brugger, Heimo Kaindl, Antje Senarcies de Grancy: Protestant art and culture in Styria . Ed .: Ernst Christian Gerhold, Johann-Georg Haditsch. Leykam, Graz 1996, p. 148-158 .
- ↑ City of Murau: Elisabeth Church. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 11, 2013 ; accessed on September 6, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Kurt Woisetschläger , Peter Krenn : Die Kunstdenkmäler Österreichs. Dehio-Handbuch Steiermark: (excluding Graz) . Ed .: Federal Monuments Office . Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1982, ISBN 3-7031-0532-1 , p. 304 .
Coordinates: 47 ° 6 ′ 36.9 ″ N , 14 ° 10 ′ 1.5 ″ E