Filial Church of St. Stefan (Strasbourg)
The Roman Catholic branch church of St. Stefan is opposite Strasbourg on the right bank of the Gurk. The church was first mentioned in 1208 as a branch of Lieding and must have been raised to a parish in the same year. When the Strasbourg collegiate chapter was founded around 1330, St. Stephen was incorporated into the chapter and became a branch of the city parish .
Building description
The church is a medium-sized, essentially Romanesque building. It was rebuilt in 1741 and received a baroque apse. A baroque sacristy is attached to the south of the slightly retracted choir . A three-story, onion-crowned tower adjoins the nave in the west. In its basement there is a groin vaulted vestibule. The stairs to the upper floor of the tower and to the gallery are located on the southern outer wall. The oldest bell in the tower was cast around 1400. The crucifix on the outer wall dates from the 18th century.
A flat barrel with stab caps arches over the three-bay nave . A retracted, pressed, baroque triumphal arch connects the nave with the choir, which has been raised by two steps. The interior of the church is structured by pilasters and heavily profiled cranked beams . Belt arches rise above the pilasters . The nave is illuminated through four basket arch windows, the choir through three segment arch windows. The vault of the choir and the triumphal arch wall are adorned with ribbon tendrils. A stucco crucifix in front of a landscape can be seen in a medallion above the triumphal arch. Stucco frame fields are attached to the barrel vault of the nave.
The strongly vaulted organ gallery stands on two Tuscan columns. The gallery parapet has similarly rich stucco as the choir. The organ positive was built around 1700. The painting of St. Oswald on the gallery dates from the late 18th century.
Facility
The high altar with sacrifice portals was created in 1759 by Georg Moser and John Benedict Fromiller taken . The center of the altar is a plastic representation of St. Stephen . On the side are the larger than life statues of Saints Andrew and Christophorus , in the open top the group of figures of the Holy Trinity . The relief on the antependium represents the rapture of St. Stephen. Some of the statues were created by Joseph Pergler in 1759. The side altars are stucco wall altars with carved reliefs on the antependia. The painting on the left altar shows the miraculous image of Maria Schnee . St. Oswald can be seen on the right altar. The pulpit , which was built around 1680, is decorated with the heads of female saints. The console figures of St. Stephen and John the Baptist in the nave date from the middle of the 18th century.
literature
- Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia . Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 930.
- Siegfried Hartwagner: Austrian Art Monograph Volume VIII: Carinthia. The St. Veit an der Glan district . Verlag St. Peter, Salzburg 1977, ISBN 3-900173-22-2 , p. 205 f.
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Coordinates: 46 ° 53 ′ 25.2 ″ N , 14 ° 20 ′ 30.5 ″ E