Parish church Koglhof
The Koglhof parish church is located in the former municipality of Koglhof in the market town of Birkfeld in the Weiz district in Styria . The the feast of the Visitation ordained Roman Catholic parish church belongs to the deanery Birkfeld in the Diocese Graz-Seckau . The church is under monument protection with the enclosure, gate system and initial shrines ( list entry ).
history
A church was documented before 1374. In 1788 the church was elevated to a parish church.
The Gothic church was built around 1480. In the fourth quarter of the 17th century the church was redesigned in Baroque style, the west portal gives the year 1683, the sacristy portal the year 1691. 1959 and 1967 were restorations.
architecture
The choir has a 5/8 end and a star rib vault on polygonal corner services . The semicircular wall templates, the pointed arched dividing arches and the buttresses on the outside still come from the original, Gothic building from the four-bay nave , whereas the vault with its lancet barrel and groin vault is baroque. The oval St. Anne's Chapel, built on the north side of the third yoke by master builder Remigius Horner in 1730, ends with a dome and lantern. The square west tower has an onion helmet and is marked 1683.
The initial shrines contain images of the four evangelists by Anton Fötsch and are largely identical to those in Strallegg .
Furnishing
The neo-Gothic high altar dates from 1881, two side altars in cartilage style from the third third of the 17th century, the pulpit from the end of the 18th century. In the passage to the Annenkapelle is the unsigned Schwarz organ from the 2nd quarter of the 18th century , which originally stood in St. Georgen am Gasenbach. The Stations of the Cross were created in 1932.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Steiermark (excluding Graz) 1982 . Koglhof, parish church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary, rectory. P. 233.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 19 ′ 9.1 ″ N , 15 ° 41 ′ 24.2 ″ E