Mürzhofen branch church
The Roman Catholic branch church of St. Johannes the Baptist Mürzhofen is a branch of the parish church of All Saints in the Mürz Valley and is a listed building .
history
The church is first mentioned in a document in 1232. From 1756 to 1826 there was a separate parish here. A restoration took place in 1975.
architecture
The church has Gothic lancet windows and stepped buttresses on the choir. In the north, a baroque chapel with a groin vault was added to the core of the Romanesque nave, which is used as a funeral hall. In the northern corner between the chapel and the choir is the Gothic sacristy, which can be reached from the choir through a portal with an iron-studded door. The mighty, four-story west tower has a wedge roof with an eaves cornice. The bell of the tower, which is also the church entrance, has a star rib vault. In the northern corner of the tower to the nave is a partially built-in stair tower. There is a painted frieze all around the choir roof.
The Romanesque flat ceiling of the nave was replaced around 1500 by a late Gothic, ribbed vault divided into three yokes with two parallel ribs on 3/4 circle services on wall templates. The retracted front arch shows a Stubenberg coat of arms with the year 1504. The single-bay, Gothic choir, almost the same width as the nave, with a five-eighth end around 1400, is one step higher and slightly bent to the north ( axis bend ). In the choir, vaulted with a ribbed vault on 3/4 circle services with grooved chalice capitals, is a simple sacrament house with a Gothic sheet metal grille. The three-axis west gallery on two round pillars is vaulted with cross ribs. The protruding wooden gallery parapet was created at the same time as the installation of two choir galleries around 1700.
A tombstone names Joseph Butrum, who died in 1850.
Furnishing
The altarpiece Baptism of Christ by Joseph Adam Ritter von Mölk (1775) stands on the rococo high altar with a free-standing tabernacle . Behind the high altar tabernacle is a baroque confessional from 1720. The left side altar, dated 1681 and 1837, restored in 1887, has a central figure of a Mother of God from the 2nd quarter of the 18th century. The right side altar is at the same time as the left side altar. On the right side altar is a "mutilated" wooden statue of the Virgin from the beginning of the 16th century. The pulpit around 1720–1730 shows pictures of the four church fathers on the basket, and Christ as the Good Shepherd on the back wall. The early Gothic font with a clover leaf frieze has an attachment from the end of the 17th century.
The organ was built by Friedrich Wagner (1848).
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Steiermark (excluding Graz) 1982 . Mürzhofen, branch church hl. John the Baptist, pp. 310-311.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 29 ′ 10.2 " N , 15 ° 23 ′ 36.3" E