Parish church Bad Gams

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Catholic parish church hl. Bartholomew in Bad Gams
The high altar of the parish church

The Roman Catholic parish church of Bad Gams is located in the former market town of Bad Gams in the town of Deutschlandsberg in the district of Deutschlandsberg in Styria . The parish church consecrated to St. Bartholomew belongs to the deanery Deutschlandsberg in the diocese of Graz-Seckau . The church is a listed building .

history

A church was first mentioned in 1165. After it was destroyed by the Turks, it was consecrated again in 1534. In 1660 it was badly damaged by fire and an emergency church had to be built. The current church was rebuilt between 1727 and 1735 by Sebastian Tengg and consecrated in 1735, although the building was not completed until 1747. In 1755 the church tower was raised. The outside was restored in 1912 and between 1961 and 1965 and the inside was restored in 1836, 1877, 1886, 1913 and between 1969 and 1970.

description

The exterior of the church is structured by painted pilasters . The slightly adjusted, three-storey church tower with a pointed helmet added in 1868 is located in the western part of the church and has three bells cast after 1945. The foundation walls are Romanesque and the two lower floors are Gothic . The entrance portal of the church is a keel arch portal with a tympanum on the shoulder arch .

The sechsjochige nave has a three-eighth circuit and is controlled by a on wall pillars with strong Gesimskapitellen seated cross vault with transverse arches spanned. The sacristy is in the north. In the western part of the nave there is a three-axis gallery .

The high altar, erected around 1775, bears statues from the workshop of Veit Königer . The altar panel painted by Anton Jantl in 1776 shows St. Bartholomew . The tabernacle dates from the end of the 19th century. The three side altars were erected around the middle of the 18th century. One of them, the Mount of Olives altar, bears a picture painted by Philipp Carl Laubmann , depicting Christ on the Mount of Olives. The pulpit was erected between 1741 and 1744. A small organ that was built in 1757 was later installed in the parish church of St. Jakob in Freiland near Deutschlandsberg. The altar table, the ambo , the Easter candlestick and the font were made in 1971 by Alfred Schlosser . The Baroque Stations of the Cross have rococo frames . There is also a baroque picture of the Fourteen Holy Helpers , a picture of St. Augustine from the beginning of the 18th century and a tombstone from 1747 in the church.

literature

  • Federal Monuments Office (ed.): Dehio Steiermark (excluding Graz) . 2nd Edition. Berger, Horn / Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-85028-439-5 , p. 133 .

Web links

Commons : Pfarrkirche Bad Gams  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Federal Monuments Office (ed.): Dehio Steiermark (excluding Graz) . 2nd Edition. Berger, Horn / Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-85028-439-5 , p. 133 .
  2. ↑ a b History of the Church. (No longer available online.) Www.badgams.gv.at, archived from the original on May 6, 2011 ; accessed on July 28, 2012 (German). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.badgams.gv.at
  3. ↑ Weekly newspaper Weststeirische Rundschau from January 23, 2015. Volume 88, 2015 No. 4. Page 1.

Coordinates: 46 ° 52 ′ 11 ″  N , 15 ° 13 ′ 21 ″  E