Branch church Gollrad
The Gollrad branch church in the village of Gollrad in the municipality of Mariazell is a Roman Catholic branch church of the Gußwerk parish in the Bruck-Mürzzuschlag district in the state of Styria . She is St. Dedicated to Barbara .
history
In the past, today's village of Gollrad consisted of two places, namely Gollrad, located on the main road, and Knappendorf, down in the valley. The location of the church, a little outside of the town center, can be traced back to this. At this point there was a mortuary before the church was built. Iron ore was probably mined in Gollrad before the Celtic era. The place name Gollrad first appears in a document in 1036 in connection with ore mining. From the beginning of the 12th century, the entire region up to Mariazell was owned by the Lambrecht Abbey , under whose patronage the ore of Gollrad was mined and smelted. At the beginning of the 19th century, the cast iron works next to Mariazell was expanded. As a result, mining in Gollrad experienced a renewed boom. During this time, between 1830 and 1833, the Barbarakirche in Gollrad was built by miners and consecrated to their patron saint, St. Barbara. It was renovated in 1950.
Architecture and equipment
The church has a facade ridge turret with an onion helmet . The facade is structured by a pilaster structure. The church is a rather unadorned hall with a north- facing orientation with three flat squares on belts and flat pilasters on the wall. Some works from the iron foundry in Gußwerk are worth mentioning, for example a resting lion as a door handle at the entrance portal, a cast iron body of the crucified above the altar from the 2nd half of the 19th century. The altarpiece is also interesting, a picture of Saint Barbara from 1951, painted by the Viennese artist Dorothea Wild. The most important work of art in this church, however, is a cast relief of the painting “ The Last Supper ” by Leonardo da Vinci . It bears the Latin inscription: "Amen dico vobis unus vestrum me traditurus est". Translated this means: "Amen, I tell you, one of you will betray me". The relief is built into the front of the people's altar, which was made in a VÖEST training workshop in Linz at the end of the 1960s and donated to the Barbarakirchlein. The two original bells date from 1833 and were cast by FX Gugg in Salzburg. The small bell adorns the image of the crucified on one side, opposite the image of Our Lady standing on the globe. The larger one was melted down during World War II. In 1955 it was replaced by one of the same size from the bell foundry Josef Pfunders. It bears the inscription “ Saint Barbara, pray for us. Gollrad 1955 ".
literature
- Dehio Steiermark (excluding Graz) 1982 , Gollrad, Filialkirche Gollrad, p. 140.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 39 ′ 11.5 ″ N , 15 ° 18 ′ 20.4 ″ E