Church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary (Heilbrunn)
The parish and pilgrimage church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary is a Roman Catholic church in the Kirchweiler Heilbrunn in the municipality of Anger in Eastern Styria.
The church with a nave with a flat ceiling and a retracted single-bay choir with a 3/8 end and an anteroom under the organ gallery was built in 1787 at a beautiful altitude on the site of a previous chapel. A slightly protruding tower is integrated into the church in the east. The Josephine Hall Church is one of the very few representatives of this architectural style in Styria; this type of church was developed under Emperor Joseph II and impresses with its simplicity and clarity. The presence of only one ship was intended to enable the pastor to reach the entire parish, who also had to announce “secular” messages.
The high altar from 1833 with a structure with columns is by the carpenter Josef Flausch and was made by the painter Caspar Tendler . The high altar replaced the Wolfgang altar from 1764, which was originally built for the Dominican convent in Graz. The figures of the Wolfgang altar of Joachim and Anna by Veit Königer are still there. The redesign of the high altar was based on a design by Ludwig von Kurz zum Thurn and Goldenstein . There are two side altars with pictures by Anton Jantl from 1791.
The church has an organ from the 19th century and a bell by Peter Zwölfer from 1673.
In front of the church is a well chapel with a sculptural group of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary from the end of the 18th century.
literature
- Dehio Steiermark (excluding Graz) 1982 , Heilbrunn, Parish and Pilgrimage Church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary, page 173.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 20 ′ 14.6 ″ N , 15 ° 36 ′ 32.1 ″ E