Breitegg Calvary Church

Double tower facade

Interior of the church

The Breitegg Kalvarienbergkirche is located in Breitegg in the municipality of Sankt Ruprecht an der Raab in Styria . The Roman Catholic Calvary Church of the Scourged Savior belongs to the Gleisdorf deanery in the Graz-Seckau diocese . The church is a listed building .

location

There are three ways of the cross leading to the Kalvarienbergkirche.

• The wayside shrines for the Way of the Cross from St. Ruprecht an der Raab to the Kalvarienbergkirche were decorated with enamel pictures by the goldsmith Bernward Schmid in 1972 .
• The Way of the Cross from Unterfladnitz to the Kalvarienbergkirche was designed in 2001 with wooden crosses by Michael Hartinger.

history

The church was built by master mason Jakob Gauster and consecrated in 1853.

architecture

The church is a three-bay hall building with a semicircular retracted choir and has a double tower facade. The paintings were created in 1890 by the painters Josef Oisner, Felix Barazutti and Rudolf Glanschnigg. The high altar is from 1891. The organ from the 1st half of the 18th century was later rebuilt.

literature

• Kurt Woisetschläger , Peter Krenn : The art monuments of Austria. Dehio-Handbuch Steiermark: (excluding Graz) . Ed .: Federal Monuments Office . Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1982, ISBN 3-7031-0532-1 , p. 486 .

Web links

Commons : Kalvarienbergkirche Breitegg  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ G. Steinwender: Breitegg branch church on ruprecht.at
2. ^ Way of the Cross Unterfladnitz - Breitegg

Coordinates: 47 ° 10 ′ 55.4 ″  N , 15 ° 39 ′ 3.2 ″  E