Parish church Hirschegg (Styria)
The Roman Catholic parish church of Mariä Namen is a late Gothic hall church in the municipality of Hirschegg-Pack in Styria .
history
The church was first mentioned in a document in 1245 and was incorporated into St. Lambrecht's monastery until 1686 . The current church was built between 1480 and 1490. A master Ulrich mentioned in 1482 was probably the main master of the construction. A restoration of the outside took place in 1955.
description
The late Gothic hall church is surrounded by a church courtyard wall, which is broken through by a gate in the west. The four-storey church tower is attached to the northern corner of the choir and has strong coffin cornices . The bell chamber of the tower has double windows with three-pass arches and houses a bell cast in 1491. The ground floor of the tower has a barrel vault . In the northeast corner of the nave is a stair tower with a keel arched gate. In it there is a spiral staircase with a turned spindle, which leads into the church tower. There are stepped buttresses on the outer wall of the choir .
A stepped, verstäbtes located on the west side of the church ogee portal with a tympanum and a crab occupied and a finial crowned gable with lateral pinnacles . The tympanum field is supported by two statues of the prophet Isaiah and the archangel Gabriel . A strong coffin cornice with two animal consoles is placed around the arched area of the portal . There is a rose window with tracery directly above the west portal . There is also a 1955 fresco of St. Christopher by the artist and restorer Leopoldine Kerciku on the western facade . At the corners of the west facade there are buttresses placed over the corner, stepped several times and crowned with pinnacles. In the south of the church there is a stepped pointed arch portal with a tympanum resting on a shoulder arch.
The three-aisled and three-bay nave is spanned by a ribbed vault, which is supported by slender dodecagonal pillars with four round services each. On the walls, the services develop from the dodecagon. In the central nave, the vault has keystones . The one-yoke choir has a five-eighth section and is vaulted by a ribbed vault seated on circular services . As in the nave, the choir vault also has keystones. The ogival front arch is strongly constricted. The gallery is located in the western part of the nave and extends over all three naves. It is supported by a star rib vault and has an openwork tracery parapet .
In the central nave there is a projecting bay window with an altar bar . The pulpit was erected in the third quarter of the 18th century and the organ created by Johann Georg Mitterreiter in 1734. On the double doors of the organ there is a painted scene of the Annunciation .
The high altar was erected in the third quarter of the 17th century and restored in 1845, 1898 and 1973. The middle group of the high altar shows the birth of Christ . A group of angels and the statues of Maria and Johannes in the altarpiece were originally part of a late Gothic winged altar created by the workshop of the Tyrolean sculptor Hans Klocker . The wings of this winged altar, dated 1503, are now in the Diocesan Museum Graz . The left side altar can be dated to 1643 due to a marking on the predella . It shows a picture of the penitent Maria Magdalena and carries two female statues of saints, which were made at the end of the 17th century, as well as a statue of St. Sebastian , which originally belonged to the old winged altar. The right side altar was set up a little later than the left side altar and was later changed. It shows a portrait of St. Anne , the frame of which dates from around 1730. The polygonal, Gothic font has a wooden crown from the end of the 17th century.
Two and three-lane tracery windows can be found throughout the church . The southern choir window has three glass paintings dated 1467, which show the coat of arms of the Saurau rulership , the saints Christophorus and Dorothea as well as the donor Dorothea Hierssegger. The large chandelier in the nave was made in the first half of the 19th century, while the baroque church chairs date from the beginning of the 18th century.
In the interior of the church there are several baroque images of the apostles in oval frames from the third quarter of the 18th century. On the north wall of the nave there are remains of frescoes, which presumably date from the 16th century.
literature
- Federal Monuments Office (ed.): Dehio Steiermark (excluding Graz) . 2nd Edition. Berger, Horn / Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-85028-439-5 , p. 180-181 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hirschegg Parish. www.katholische-kirche-steiermark.at, accessed on December 5, 2014 .
- ↑ a b c d e Federal Monuments Office (ed.): Dehio Steiermark (excluding Graz) . 2nd Edition. Berger, Horn / Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-85028-439-5 , p. 180-181 .
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Coordinates: 47 ° 1 ′ 10.4 ″ N , 14 ° 57 ′ 31.2 ″ E