Kreuzkirche (Graz)

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Kreuzkirche

The Kreuzkirche is a Protestant parish church in the 4th district of Lend in  Graz .

History and design

Due to the population growth on the right bank of the Mur, it was decided at the turn of the 20th century to found a new Protestant parish. The 17th century Mühl-Schlössl on the edge of the Grazer Volksgarten and near the left bank of the right Mühlgang was acquired in 1908 and adapted as a rectory. An anonymous donor (Ida Albrecht, was found out in 2014) from Mecklenburg had determined her assets in her will to found a Lutheran church. The Graz community applied for the foundation. The Berlin architecture professor Otto Kuhlmann won the competition. The church was built according to his plans from 1912 to 1914 and was consecrated in 1914 before the First World War .

The Kreuzkirche has a nave with buttresses, an open vestibule and a large tower that originally had an onion dome that was destroyed in World War II. The nave is made up of galleries on massive stone pillars and a semicircular apse shaped by a blue starry sky . The decorations with angels and the paintings on the balustrades are particularly striking for a Protestant church. In 1915, the Graz sculptor Hans Brandstetter made a relief bust of the unknown church donor from stone, which is located in the tower of the church. In the stairway to the organ loft there is a baroque altar (St. Paulus Eremita) from the former house chapel of the neighboring Mühlschlössel rectory. The rectory is connected to the Kreuzkirche by an arcade.

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literature

  • Alois Kölbl, Wiltraud Resch: Paths to God. The churches and synagogue of Graz. 2nd, expanded and supplemented edition. Styria, Graz 2004, ISBN 3-222-13105-8 , p. 153.
  • Roswitha Missbichler: Festschrift. 1914 - 2014. 100 years of the Protestant Kreuzkirche Graz. Published by the presbytery of the Evangelical Parish AB Kreuzkirche Graz, Graz 2014, 100 pp.

Coordinates: 47 ° 4 ′ 25.9 ″  N , 15 ° 25 ′ 32.2 ″  E