Mater Dolorosa (Graz)
The Mater Dolorosa church or Church of the Sorrowful Mother is a small church on the Graz city limits in Messendorf in the eighth district of St. Peter . It forms the Graz-Messendorf Stationskaplanei of the Graz-St. Peter in the dean's office Graz-Süd of the city church Graz , and is connected to the Missionshaus Messendorf of the Comboni missionaries .
History and design
The neo-Gothic building, erected in 1909, has been a station chaplain since 1941 . In 1934 and 1960 the church was renovated.
The west tower is four-story and wears a pointed helmet . The rectory is built on the south side .
The one nave nave consists of three bays and has a ribbed vault on wall services . The uniform equipment of the interior comes from the construction period. In the prayer room there is a Mariahilf grace image based on the model of Lucas Cranach the Elder . Ä . The graffiti on the outside of the facade shows St. Christopher and Petrus Claver by Hans Oberstaller from 1966. The tympanum fresco with a depiction of Mary and Child is by Franz Mikschowsky (1933).
literature
- Horst Schweigert : Graz (= The art monuments of Austria . = Dehio -Handbuch Graz. = Dehio Graz. ). Revision. Schroll, Vienna 1979, ISBN 3-7031-0475-9 , p. 211.
Web links
- Graz-Messendorf , Comboni missionaries
Coordinates: 47 ° 2 ′ 9 ″ N , 15 ° 29 ′ 35.5 ″ E