Parish church Greith near Neumarkt
The Roman Catholic parish church Greith near Neumarkt is in the municipality of Neumarkt in Styria in the Murau district in Styria . The parish church consecrated to St. Martin belongs to the deanery Murau in the diocese of Graz-Seckau . Church and cemetery are surrounded by a wall with initiation chapels . The facility is a listed building .
history
In 1283 a church was mentioned in a document.
architecture
The wide three-bay nave with a constricted, pointed front arch is followed by an almost equally wide, one-bay, trapezoidal choir with a five-eighth end . The choir has an axis bend to the nave . The choir is open in the north of the choir bay to the tower chapel on the ground floor of the north tower. The nave and choir have star rib vaults in the style of the St. Helen near Mühlen branch church. In the nave, the ribs run on slightly drawn in buttresses, in the choir on consoles. The tower chapel is vaulted with ribs. The nave and choir have single-lane pointed arch windows with a clover leaf closure. In the choir is a rectangular, Gothic sacraments niche with a cloverleaf closure and a wrought-iron lattice door. The three-axis Gothic west gallery is vaulted under the ribs and has a modern, protruding wooden gallery.
The profiled Gothic west portal is ogival. The north tower on the Chorjoch - also bent to align the nave - has a tent roof. The sacristy extension to the north of the nave adjoins the tower chapel to the east.
The masonry of the church contains Roman stones: Under the organ loft is an excellently preserved late Roman round half-relief of a couple from the second half of the 2nd century. In the altar step of the side altar is an ornamental stone.
Furnishing
The high altar shows the high altar picture St. Martin and carries the statues Maria with child and Martin and Christophorus from a Carinthian workshop around 1510/1520. The tabernacle is from the middle of the 18th century. The side altar from the third quarter of the 17th century shows a picture of St. Maria and carries the late Gothic statue of St. Barbara from the beginning of the 16th century. The pulpit around 1700 with a sound cover was changed around 1800. The late Gothic crucifix is from the beginning of the 16th century. There are some baroque statues from the first half of the 18th century. A picture of the Annunciation is in a richly carved cartilage frame with the year 1674.
The organ is from the first third of the 19th century. A bell from 1546 is labeled Urban Fiering.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Steiermark (excluding Graz) 1982 . Greith, Gem. St. Marein near Neumarkt, parish church hl. Martin, with floor plan, pp. 145–146.
- Parish Church of St. Martin in Greith. Pp. 12-15. In: Gottfried Allmer: The churches between Grebenzen and Zirbitzkogel . Church guides, Christian Art Centers Austria No. 490, Verlag St. Peter, Salzburg 2009.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 4 ′ 59.85 " N , 14 ° 27 ′ 56.5" E