Filial church St. Johann am Kirchberg
The Church of St. John the Baptist is a Roman Catholic branch and pilgrimage church in the village of Kirchberg in the market town of Maria Lankowitz in Styria . It is subordinate to the parish church Maria Lankowitz . Its history goes back to the end of the 14th century.
Location
The church is in Kirchberg , a scattered settlement area north of the market town of Maria Lankowitz .
history
The church was first mentioned in a document in 1394 and the current church building dates back to 1525. Until 1786 the church was subordinate to the parish church in Köflach , since then it has been a branch of the parish church Maria Lankowitz . A restoration of the inside took place in 1980/81.
description
The late Gothic church is surrounded by a completely preserved churchyard wall with two arched gates. In the west of the church building is the church tower built in 1658 by master mason Blasius Sorger with an onion dome with a lantern and a bell cast in the 15th century. There are stepped buttresses on all sides of the church building , with one in the southwest showing the date 1525. The two-lane tracery windows from the construction period have largely been preserved to this day. On the south side there is a barbed pointed arch portal with a shoulder-arched lintel and a high tympanum field .
The three-bay nave is spanned by a ribbed vault with two parallel ribs resting on the south side on circular services and on the north side on consoles . The two-bay choir is the same width as the nave has a three-eighth end and is also vaulted with mesh ribs. The choir vault is, however, more irregular than that in the nave and also rests on a head console. The choir is separated from the nave by a constricted, ogival front arch . In the western part of the nave there is a brick, three-axis gallery , which sits on rectangular pillars and probably dates from around 1658. There is a side chapel to the north of the choir, while the sacristy is attached to the south side of the choir . The door to the sacristy has a richly designed frame. So rests on bust consoles a pressed and in the upper part of the keel arc formed sheet, with two pinnacles flanked crabs and a finial . In the fields there are coats of arms and the coffin cornice above is decorated with a grapevine frieze in its throat . The pulpit dates back to 1749 and the organ with its original musical mechanism and painted double doors is from the beginning of the 18th century.
The high altar with gallery portals was erected around 1750. Its altarpiece dates from the third quarter of the 17th century and shows the baptism of Jesus . There are also statues of Saints John , John Nepomuk , John the Baptist and Martin on the altar . The two side altars were erected in the third quarter of the 17th century. The altar panel of the left side altar shows a crescent Madonna while the one on the right altar depicts Saint John on Patmos . The altar in the north side chapel dates to 1719 and bears statues of Saints Augustine , Blaise and Florian . In the side chapel there is also an altar fragment from the first third of the 17th century. On the northern wall of the choir there is a sideboard altar made around 1720 with a Johanneshaupt and a traffic light attached to a wrought-iron arm above it . In the church there are oval pictures of the apostles that were painted at the beginning of the 18th century. The pews date from around 1700.
literature
- Federal Monuments Office (ed.): Dehio Steiermark (excluding Graz) . 2nd Edition. Berger, Horn / Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-85028-439-5 , p. 438-439 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Parish Maria Lankowitz. www.katholische-kirche-steiermark.at, accessed on September 25, 2015 .
- ↑ a b c d e Federal Monuments Office (ed.): Dehio Steiermark (excluding Graz) . 2nd Edition. Berger, Horn / Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-85028-439-5 , p. 438-439 .
Coordinates: 47 ° 4 '40.8 " N , 15 ° 3' 9.2" E