Parish Church of Grades

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Parish Church of Grades

The Roman Catholic parish church of Grades , consecrated to St. Andrew , stands at the east end of the market square in the town of Grades of the same name in the municipality of Metnitz . The church received parish rights in 1525. Until then it was a branch of Metnitz . The pilgrimage church of St. Wolfgang belongs to the parish of Grades .

Building description

The core of the church is a Romanesque building from the 12th century with a nave, a retracted, just closed choir, an exposed west tower and a sacristy extension on the north side of the choir. The tower has a coupled Romanesque window on the fourth floor on the south side , above it on all sides younger sound openings and a baroque onion helmet. On the west façade there are heraldic tombstones of Anna Maria Schmalz from the first half of the 17th century and that of Gertrud Wachter, née Heussin von Kühnburg, from around 1560. There is also a Roman tombstone on the outer wall with the full figures of a couple in flat relief in the gesture of the dextrarum iunctio from the middle of the second century AD. The vestibule on the first floor of the tower has a groin vault . You enter the church through an arched portal.

The nave is equipped with a wooden west gallery, a baroque flat ceiling, high arched windows and a single, two-lane, late Gothic tracery window. Gothic glass paintings from the first Judenburg workshop from the mid-14th century have been preserved in the window. Depicted are John the Baptist and Saint Catherine with a donor couple. The mighty wall set in the west could be the remainder of an older tower. The ceiling paintings in the nave with the martyrdom of the Apostle Andrew and the personifications of Christian virtues faith, love and hope were painted by Johannes Strobl in 1780. The wall paintings from the last quarter of the 13th century on the triumphal arch wall show the Last Judgment , the legend of Catherine and the fall of Saul . On the north wall of the nave, the apostle Bartholomäus , Saint Barbara with donor, Saints George and Dorothea and presumably the Assumption of Mary Magdalene are depicted. A high, Romanesque triumphal arch with battlements' cornices separates the nave from the choir with baroque windows. A barrel vault with lancet caps from the 17th century rises above the choir.

Facility

The high altar from 1680 is the work of the carpenter Simon Helffenschaider, the sculptor Johann Claus and the painter and barrel painter Christian Lidl. The altar consists of a base floor with sacrificial portals , above a floor in the triumphal arch type and a small aedicula with double columns in the blasted gable . The side ears are decorated with simple acanthus . The focal point is the statue of St. Andrew, flanked by Francis of Assisi and Anthony of Padua . Above is John the Baptist. The coronation of Mary is shown in the topmost essay .

The left side altar from 1685 consists of a simple aedicule over a small base and a split segment gable with a small aedicule as an attachment. The middle picture shows Maria Immaculata , the side pictures Saint Catherine and Barbara , the top picture Saint Joseph .

The structure of the right side altar from 1687 is the same as the left one. The frame and the paintings are by Christian Lidl. The middle picture shows Saint Sebastian , the side pictures Saint Martin and Nicholas and the upper picture shows Saint Florian .

The pulpit was taken by Christian Lidl in 1688. The pictures on the pulpit show the four evangelists . The rear wall of the pulpit is a picture of St. Sebastian from the first half of the 18th century. The sound cover is crowned with an IHS symbol in the halo.

The church has console figures of Saints Franz Xavier and Johannes Nepomuk from 1739, Francis of Assisi from 1734, who is surrounded by angels, as well as two small console figures of Anna herself and Saint James from the first half of the 18th century. The painting of a saint of the order comes from the 18th century, the beaker-shaped font from 1475.

In the church are the coat of arms grave slab of Andre Staudacher († 1437), the gravestone of the noble Maria Salome, born Gall von Brixen from the first half of the 16th century as well as an epitaph for Onopherüs Rainerer with crucifixion and donation from 1566, donated by Veronika Furtmayrin Freiin zu Spauer, appropriate.

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Coordinates: 46 ° 58 ′ 45 ″  N , 14 ° 15 ′ 18.4 ″  E