Parish church Köflach

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Facade with tower
Church interior

The Church of St. Magdalena in western Styria is a Renaissance church with a Gothic tower. It is the parish church of Köflach and belongs to the Voitsberg deanery . The religious building is Mary Magdalene ordained that honor every year at their Memorial Day, July 22, a parish fair is held. The current pastor is Johannes F. Baier.

history

The church in Köflach was first mentioned in a document in 1245 and was incorporated into St. Lambrecht Monastery until 1786 . After a fire, triggered by a lightning strike, the new building was carried out from 1643 to 1649 by the brothers Cyprian and Domenico Sciassia . The preserved Gothic tower was integrated into the new building. The church was restored inside in 1960 and outside in 1966–67.

Parish Köflach

Today the parish Köflach with the parishes in forming Hirschegg , Modriach , and pack a Pfarrverband . The parish, the count John XXIII. Memorial Church in Pichling , as well as the measurement chapels of the Visitation in Rosental ( Gradnerkapelle ) , Sorrows in Puchbach ( Ungerhofkapelle ) and the village chapel Pichling .

Building description

The cross-shaped building from the late Renaissance has a two- bay nave with a square crossing with short transverse arms. This is followed by a one-yoke, just completed choir . A flat dome arches over the crossing, otherwise there are barrel vaults on double belts and pilasters . The sacristy is built to the east of the choir closure. The three-axis west gallery with a central balustrade is from the beginning of the 18th century. The Gothic tower has an eight-sided pointed spire .

The baroque wall paintings in the vaults are by Joseph Adam von Mölck . They are dated 1777. In the choir of the Assumption of Mary , the church patroness, who anoints Christ's feet, as well as the four evangelists , the women at the grave, Christ in the garden (“ Noli me tangere ”), the resurrection of Lazarus and Mary Magdalene before Christ are represented in the crossing .

The altarpiece with the depiction of the atoning Magdalena, also by Mölck, is from 1776; also the two side altar pictures with representations of St. Nikolaus and Maria with the hll. Dominic and Lambert. Next to it is a painted, Gothic winged altar (around 1470), which presumably comes from the Franciscan monastery Maria Lankowitz and was donated by the knight Georg von Gradner († 1476).

On the outside wall of the church tower is a baroque group of crosses from the second half of the 18th century. The bell is from 1521 and made by Nikolaus Grünwald .

literature

  • Kurt Woisetschläger, Peter Krenn (Ed.): Dehio Steiermark (excluding Graz) . Schroll, Vienna 1982, ISBN 3-7031-0532-1 , p. 231-232 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Woisetschläger, Krenn: Dehio Steiermark. P. 231.
  2. ↑ a b Parish Köflach , Styrian Catholic Church
  3. ^ Woisetschläger, Krenn: Dehio Steiermark. P. 231f.
  4. ↑ a b c Woisetschläger, Krenn: Dehio Steiermark. P. 232.

Coordinates: 47 ° 3 ′ 54 ″  N , 15 ° 5 ′ 6 ″  E