Parish church Glashütten

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Catholic parish church of Mariae in glassworks
View of the high altar during the renovation work in 2003

The Roman Catholic parish church Glashütten is located in Glashütten in the west of Gressenberg in the market town of Bad Schwanberg in the Deutschlandsberg district in Styria . The parish church , consecrated to the feast of the name of the Virgin Mary , belonged to the then dissolved dean's office of Deutschlandsberg of the diocese of Graz-Seckau until the end of August 2018 ; since this dean's office was closed, it has been located in the pastoral care area of ​​Southwest Styria. The church is a listed building .

history

The church was built between 1767 and 1769 by the Landsberg master mason Anton Liebfahrt on the site of a wooden church built in 1670. The money for the church building was donated by Jakob Lenzenbauer. It was consecrated in 1770 and was a branch of the Schwanberg parish. In 1817 it belonged as a station chaplain to the deanery of (Deutsch-) Landsberg, but was already entitled to exercise parish rights in full. It was elevated to a parish church in 1892.

Interior restoration took place in 1963 and 2003, an exterior restoration in 2007.

description

The western church facade has a curved gable on which the roof turret with onion helmet sits. The facade is framed by pilasters .

A narrower, rectangular choir adjoins the nave . The nave with a flat domed vault has a rectangular yoke to which a narrow gallery yoke connects. In the corners of the room and on the front arch there are pillars with strong capital zones , which emphasize the character of the central room . To the east of the choir is the lower sacristy . The pulpit is from the construction period. There is an inscription on the holy water font, which refers to the church donor.

The baroque high altar dates from the first half of the 18th century. On it is a statue of Maria with child made by Jakob Gschiel in 1859 . The side altars have painted Rococo prospectuses and middle parts from the end of the 19th century. The glass altar and ambo were designed by Werner Schimpl in 2003. The vaults are furnished with rococo paintings from the construction period and painted over by Felix Barazutti in 1892 . There is also the so-called “Glassmaker Madonna” in the church, which dates from the time when glass was still made in Gressenberg.

literature

  • Federal Monuments Office (ed.): Dehio Steiermark (excluding Graz) . 2nd Edition. Berger, Horn / Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-85028-439-5 , p. 135-136 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerhard Fischer: The Catholic Church in Styria is breaking new ground. Merger of the dean's offices in Deutschlandsberg and Leibnitz to form the South-West Styria region. Weekly newspaper Weststeirische Rundschau from August 31, 2018. Volume 91, No. 35, p. 2.
  2. ↑ Church ordinance sheet for the Seckau diocese. Born in 1892, VIII, No. 50, ZDB -ID 607471-6 pp. 51–52: Awarding of the pastor's title to the previously named local curates, vicars, etc., independent, permanently employed pastoral heads.
  3. ↑ a b c d Federal Monuments Office (ed.): Dehio Steiermark (excluding Graz) . 2nd Edition. Berger, Horn / Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-85028-439-5 , p. 135-136 .
  4. ↑ a b Parish glassworks. www.katholische-kirche-steiermark.at, accessed on November 3, 2012 .

Coordinates: 46 ° 49 '24.9 "  N , 15 ° 3' 34.3"  E