Parish chambers
The parish church Kammern im Liesingtal stands on the southern edge of the village in the market town of Kammern im Liesingtal in the Leoben district in Styria . Under the patronage of John the Baptist standing Roman Catholic parish church - the Admont incorporated - is part of the Dean's Office Leoben in the Diocese Graz-Seckau . The church and the cemetery are under monument protection ( list entry ).
history
The Admont Abbey was documented as the owner in 1184 . Mentioned as a parish in 1210. After a Turkish invasion in 1480, it was rebuilt until around 1490. The church was restored in 1907/1908, and the high altar was regotified. 1977/78 was a complete restoration.
architecture
The church is surrounded by a cemetery with an old wall. The choir shows stepped buttresses on the outside.
The wide nave is a five-bay, two-aisled hall with a star rib vault on four octagonal pillars arranged in the longitudinal axis and circular services on wall templates. The wooden west gallery is from the 18th century, accessed via a Gothic spiral staircase in the transition from the nave to the tower. The mighty four-and-a-half-storey Gothic west tower with a kink to the longitudinal axis of the nave consists of quarry stone masonry and has a pointed helmet from 1869. The north portal is ogival. On the south wall opposite the entrance there is a painted canopy altar with an oil painting Benedict by the painter Bartholomäus Altomonte 1734.
A drawn-in two-bay choir with a five- eighth end connects to the constricted, profiled ogival front arch . The star rib vault of the choir rests on services and capitals that were changed in 1907, there are figure canopies and two head consoles in the west. There are three round keystones with reliefs Lamm Gottes , Johanneshaupt, and Rosette. The two-lane tracery windows show figurative panes from 1907/1908. In the choir vault there is a late Gothic tendril painting with evangelist symbols uncovered in 1977, on the fron arch wall a coat of arms with the inscription Admonter Abbot Johan (Trautmannsdorf) with 14.0 probably the year 1490. On the south wall of the choir there are wall paintings from the second half of the 16th century with the birth of Christ, Risen, including a family of founders.
To the south of the choir is the barrel-vaulted sacristy - probably as a remnant of the Romanesque predecessor church - with a fragmented cycle of frescoes Christ in the mandorla and evangelist symbols restored in 1950/1951, as well as the twelve apostles in recessed nimbes in early Gothic pointed arcades. To the north of the choir is a Gothic chapel, today the Johann Nepomuk Chapel, with a ribbed vault and baroque decorative paintings from the second half of the 18th century.
Furnishing
The neo-Gothic high altar was built in 1907. The side altars with cartilage ornament from around 1660/1670 show the coat of arms of abbot Raimund (1659–1675), the Marian altar with a Gothic enthroned Maria with child around 1420 bears the baroque statues Theresia and Dominikus and in the essay Josef der Sebastian Altar shows the altarpiece Martyrdom of Sebastian and in the upper picture Florian and carries the statues Benedict and Scholastica. The altar of the Nepomuk Chapel was created by Franz Xaver Krenauer (1780) with the statues Johann Nepomuk, Isidor and Notburga.
The twelve-sided marble font is Gothic.
The organ is from the second quarter of the 18th century, the work was expanded in 1840. Jörg Perger names a bell in 1536.
Web links
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Steiermark (excluding Graz) 1982 . Chambers in the Liesingtal, parish church St. Johannes d. T., with floor plan, stately rectory (Propstei), pp. 208–209.
Coordinates: 47 ° 23 '25.4 " N , 14 ° 54' 9.2" E