Filialkirche Feistritz near Knittelfeld
The Filialkirche Feistritz bei Knittelfeld is on the northern edge of the village Feistritz bei Knittelfeld in the municipality of Sankt Marein-Feistritz in the Murtal district in Styria . The Roman Catholic branch church of the parish church of St. Marein near Knittelfeld, which is under the patronage of St. John the Baptist and St. John the Evangelist , belongs to the Knittelfeld dean's office in the Graz-Seckau diocese . The church is a listed building ( list entry ).
history
A church was documented in 1070. In 1515 the church was rededicated.
The late Romanesque church building was changed to Gothic and Baroque.
architecture
The branch church is slightly elevated on the northern edge of the village in a walled cemetery with four initial chapels.
The rectangular nave with a west gallery under a flat ceiling received a stucco field ceiling around 1700. The arched windows on the outside are pointed arches on the inside. In the north there is a chapel under a half-barrel vault, to the east there is a sacristy under a pointed barrel vault. The vestibule portal is Gothic-arched and has a door covered with iron plates. The front arch is rounded. The retracted semicircular apse is raised by one step and has early Gothic narrow east windows with nuns closing. In the 16th century, a star rib vault was drawn in on Renaissance consoles in the choir. The Gothic west tower with corner cuboids and coupled keel-arched acoustic windows has a pointed helmet, the tower hall is open on three sides. The late Gothic profiled and keel-arched west portal has a door with Gothic fittings. Above the west portal, an inscription gives the year 1592 and Benedict Wißmüller Andre Ruesoldt baidt Zechleidt .
In 1972, wall paintings were uncovered inside the church: the choir shows vegetal tendril ornament on the vault and Christ with Salome and the Zebedee sons on the walls, stigmatization of St. Francis and St. Jerome , everything from the end of the 16th century. The nave shows Gothic crosses of the Apostles in four-passages from the second half of the 15th century.
The church shows the baroque fresco Christophorus on the south wall and the remains of a Gothic fresco underneath. A crucifix from the middle of the 18th century hangs on the outside of the choir.
In the cemetery, next to a fragment of an inscribed Roman stone, there is a tombstone for the stonemason Georg Deschmann, who died in 1857.
Furnishing
The cafeteria of the high altar is Gothic with painted quatrefoils, the structure is rococo from the third quarter of the 18th century, the altar shows the baroque high altar picture St. John the Baptist and John the Evangelist.
The left side altar around 1720 has two twisted columns and an acanthus ornament bears a neo-Gothic statue of Mary and Child in the middle . The right side altar St. Johannes Nepomuk gives the year 1732 and has a structure with volute columns and bandwork ornament. Both side altars have baroque antependia painted on canvas.
The crucifix is probably from the 16th century. A statue of St. Johannes Nepomuk stands in front of a canopy. The figure Pietà from the second quarter of the 18th century was created by the sculptor Balthasar Prandtstätter .
There are baroque pictures, a votive picture with the fourteen helpers in need , a miraculous picture of Mariahilf , a picture of Hieronymus, a picture of John the Evangelist.
The organ gives the year 1886.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Steiermark (excluding Graz) 1982 . Feistritz near Knittelfeld, branch church (from St. Marein) St. John the Baptist and John the Evangelist, pp. 94–95.
Coordinates: 47 ° 16 ′ 3.8 ″ N , 14 ° 53 ′ 32.1 ″ E