Parish Church Ebersdorf (Styria)
The Roman Catholic parish church Ebersdorf is located in the village of Ebersdorf in the municipality of Ebersdorf in Styria . The parish church of St. Andreas belongs to the Hartberg deanery in the Graz-Seckau diocese . The church and the surrounding defensive wall are under monument protection .
history
The Dunkelsteiner built a chapel in 1170. A church was built from 1756 to 1758. A renovation took place from 1881 to 1891.
architecture
The western front is equipped with a facade tower with pilasters and a triangular gable with the year 1756. The organ choir is located above the vestibule. The two-bay nave has a square vault and belts on swinging wall pillars. The retracted one-bay choir with a semicircle has a stitch cap vault. The sacristy has a gallery.
Outside on the south wall there is a Roman tombstone with half-length portraits of a married couple with a daughter from the 1st century. In the surrounding defensive wall is a tombstone for the imperial captain Steinpaiß with the year 1590.
Furnishing
The late baroque interior was created by the sculptor Jakob Peyer (1767). The high altar with a newer structure based on a design by Johann Kottmayr (1840) shows the altarpiece St. Andreas by the painter Josef A. Wonsiedler (1840). The baptismal font is from the 3rd quarter of the 18th century.
The organ was built by Franz Xaver Schwarz in 1788.
Web links
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Steiermark (excluding Graz) 1982 . Ebersdorf, parish church hl. Andreas, p. 75.
Coordinates: 47 ° 12 ′ 3.5 ″ N , 15 ° 57 ′ 34.1 ″ E