Grabenkirche

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Grabenkirche

The grave church , and parish Graz-Graben , Church St. John the Baptist Geidorf , is a Roman Catholic parish in the third Grazer district Geidorf . The Grabenkirche belongs to the Capuchin settlement , the Grabenkloster, and is dedicated to St. John the Baptist . It is the parish church of the Graz-Graben parish in the Graz-Nord deanery of the City Church of Graz .

history

The area of ​​the Grabenkirche was named after the Lords of Graben "Am Graben" or Grabenvorstadt from 1294 . In addition to the Grabenkirche, there was a second and older church, the Antoniuskirche , in Paulustorgasse (today a folklore museum ). The older convent had a new monastery founded in the rapidly growing suburb, the Grabenkloster, in order to expand pastoral care.

For this reason, a tower-free church was built, which was consecrated in 1652. The Capuchins also founded a school and cared for numerous sick people during the plague years. In the course of the Josephine reforms , the monastery was abandoned in 1786 and a parish was set up after the monks were expelled. The first pastor was Ludwig Jakomini, a brother of the then mayor of Graz. From 1969 the pastoral care center Graz-Nord with the Salvatorkirche was a branch of the Grabenpfarre until the Salvatorpfarre became independent in the course of the Katholikentag in 1981.

In 2007 the parish, which had been sharing a pastor with Salvator for a few years, received a pastor in a wheelchair in Mag. Markus Madl. For this purpose, the rectory was completely wheelchair-accessible between 2007 and 2008.

layout

The furnishings of the grave church were collected from various churches. The high altar comes from the Franciscan Church, which originally stood in the abandoned Carmelite Church on Andreas-Hofer-Platz. The altar panel with a representation of John the Baptist is surrounded by Saints Peter and Paul . The side altars originally stood in the Mariahilferkirche and show St. John Nepomuk (right) and St. Joseph von Copertino . The tabernacle decorated with tendrils is the only known remnant from the destroyed Georgskirche in Murvorstadt. The pews come from the former Carmelite Church on Andreas-Hofer-Platz.

The Styrian baroque painter Hans Adam Weissenkircher created one of his main works for the Grabenkirche, the Annunciation to Maria , which only found a place on the side wall of the church in 1996 and until then hung in the staircase church .

The first organ in the church came from the parish church of St. Andrä. Around 1885/86 this was replaced by an organ with twelve registers from the Salzburg company Mauracher. In 1995 the Lower Austrian company Allgäuer was commissioned to build a new organ with 23 registers, which was consecrated on July 5, 1998. The previous organ came to the parish of Ranten .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Graz-Grabenpfarre. History of St. Johann am Graben ( Memento from July 6, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Johann Trummer: The organ. Website of the Catholic City Church Graz (archive version, accessed on June 3, 2018.)

literature

  • Alois Kölbl, Wiltraud Resch: Paths to God. The churches and synagogue of Graz . 2nd, expanded and supplemented edition. Styria, Graz / Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-222-13105-8 , pp. 129-131 .

Coordinates: 47 ° 4 ′ 53.3 "  N , 15 ° 26 ′ 22.6"  E