Filialkirche Seewiesen
The Seewiesen branch church in the Seewiesen cadastral community of Turnau is a Roman Catholic branch church of the Turnau parish in the Bruck-Mürzzuschlag district in the state of Styria . It is consecrated to St. Leonhard and is also called "Styrian Holy Blood".
history
In 1157, on his way from St. Lambrecht Abbey , the monk Magnus carried a Madonna made of linden wood, today's "Magna Mater Austriae", through Seewiesen and over the Seebergsattel to today's Mariazell, 30 kilometers to the north . With the rise of pilgrimages to the Madonna of Mariazell , more pilgrims moved through Seewiesen, which appears for the first time in a document dated September 30, 1335. In it, Archbishop Friedrich von Salzburg grants Abbot Ortolph from St. Lambrecht Abbey permission to build a church as the last pilgrimage station before the destination.
In 1366 the church was completed and consecrated by Bishop Heinrich Krafft von Lavant . The certificate of consecration was found under the altar stone in 1755 by the first parish vicar of Seewiesen, Father Paulus de Apostolis. In 1754 the church in Seewiesen was elevated to a parish church by Eugen Inzaghi , the abbot of the St. Lambrecht monastery. Two years later he had the rectory built with baroque iron bars in front of the windows. The coat of arms of the builder, who died on January 1st, 1760, is emblazoned above the house gate. Eugen Inzaghi is buried in the basilica of Mariazell . In 1958 the Seewiesen church became a diocesan parish, and in 1998 it became a branch church of the Parish Turnau.
Architecture and equipment
The baroque altar was created by three Styrian artists between 1688 and 1692: Mathias Zarztsch created the altar structure, Hans Adam Weissenkircher the altarpiece of St. Leonhard and Andreas Marzl the gilded angel figures and on both sides of the altarpiece the statues of the apostles Peter and Paul . The Madonna above the altarpiece, which is flanked by John the Baptist and Maria Magdalena , also comes from him . Angels kneel out of his hand on the rotating tabernacle. Left and right of the baroque sessio , a foundation of the Viennese school council Erich Brandstätter, there are two copies, altarpieces of the side altars removed in 1957, signed 1754, from the Mariazell treasury.
The statues of St. Barbara and St. Leonhard are the only relics in the inventory of the Gothic church. Both saints are patron saints in this area: Saint Barbara is the patron saint of the miners (silver was mined in the neighboring town of Gollrad). Saint Leonhard is the patron saint of Seewiesen. To this day, pilgrimages from neighboring parishes to Seewiesen take place every year on November 6th. The organ is a Baroque positive that was installed around 1700, when the church was baroque. The two frescoes also date from the same period. On the west wall above the gallery the crucifixion of Jesus is depicted, on the triumphal arch a curtain with the coat of arms of Abbot Anton Stroz (St. Lambrecht Abbey), dated 1710. The frescoes were uncovered by Anton Fötsch in 1957 .
The organ was restored and electrified in 1961 by the Graz organ builder Gebrüder Hopferwieser .
The bell, cast in 1711 by the Graz bell foundry Florian Streckfuß, with reliefs of St. Barbara, St. Catherine , St. Nicholas and St. Florian weighs a hundred kilograms. The smaller bell weighing 45 kilograms fell victim to the First World War in 1917 , but was replaced in 1919 by a cast steel bell from the Böhler company . This is consecrated to the Rosary Queen.
The church used to have a baroque roof turret on the east gable of the nave, which was replaced in 1906 by the abbot of St. Lambrecht, Severin Kalcher , with the current one on the west gable. The tower clock from the workshop of Ignaz Berthold from Ehrenhausen also dates from this time . In 1975 it was converted to an electric counter.
The tower staircase with spiral staircase was rebuilt in 1966. The glazed connecting corridor between the rectory and the church (it is used for unhindered passage when there is heavy snowfall) dates from 1964.
Others
A special custom, “wearing gloves”, is practiced in the St. Leonhard Church. On the Saturday before the third Sunday of Lent, a glove is handed in at the church, which is then fetched back on Leonhardi Day, November 6th. To this day, people go to Seewiesen in processions once a year.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Extract from the chronicle of the Seewiesen parish, exhibited at the entrance to the church in the glass corridor
- ↑ Sunday paper: wearing gloves. Retrieved September 30, 2012 .
Coordinates: 47 ° 37 ′ 14.5 ″ N , 15 ° 16 ′ 15.4 ″ E