Church of St. Cyril and Method (Graz)

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Church of St. Cyril and Methodius at the Graz central cemetery

The Church of St. Cyril and Method is a Serbian Orthodox church in the 5th  district of Graz, Gries . The originally Roman Catholic Church of the Crucified Savior is today consecrated to the Slav apostles Cyril and Method .

history

The sacred building is located on the area of ​​the Graz Central Cemetery and , like the other buildings in the cemetery, was designed in the neo-Gothic brick style by the architect Carl Lauzil . Today's church was designed as a sanctuary, built from 1886 and blessed on October 4, 1895 as the Roman Catholic Church of the Savior. Only when the ciborium altar was completed did the consecration take place on May 14th . In 1918 the consecration hall for the Church of the Crucified Savior was renamed and from 1939/40 onwards was temporarily elevated to the rank of an independent parish church. In 1996 the parish was dissolved, the Graz-St. Johannes subordinated, and the Church of the Serbian Orthodox Diocese for Central Europe made available to the Styrian parish. The Serbian Orthodox parish and the church were consecrated to the Slav apostles Cyril and Method. Furthermore, the church is owned by the Roman Catholic Church.

Architecture and design

Looking north through the entrance portal of the church

The almost square floor plan and the mighty double-shell dome, which is flanked by two smaller domes, are striking for the sacred building, which is located in the central axis of the central cemetery. The central building is connected in the south and north by arcades with the blessing and laying out hall. Monumental wheel windows are set into the side walls. Inside the brick building, the four evangelists decorate the transition to the dome. There is a depiction of the Savior on the high altar. The altar is located below the dome and is made of light sandstone.

Others

The 29-year-old metal lathe operator Rudolf Wlasak, who died in 1896 while building the church, was also the first person to be buried at the central cemetery.

literature

  • Karin Derler, Ingrid Habersack: The Graz central cemetery. Its conception, building history and its embedding in the history of Graz. In: Historisches Jahrbuch der Stadt Graz , Volume 27/28, 1998, ISSN  0440-9728 , pp. 447–466, here p. 454.
  • 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. 164-165 .
  • Horst Schweigert : Graz (= The art monuments of Austria. = Dehio-Handbuch Graz. = Dehio Graz. ). Revised edition, Schroll, Vienna 1979, ISBN 3-7031-0475-9 , p. 186.

Individual evidence

  1. Box for more information , parish Graz-St. Johannes , Catholic Church Styria / Diocese Graz-Seckau
  2. ^ Schweigert: Dehio Graz. P. 186.

Coordinates: 47 ° 2 ′ 43.3 "  N , 15 ° 25 ′ 38.6"  E