Parish Church of Ligist
The Church of St. Katharina is the Roman Catholic parish church in the market town of Ligist in Styria . Its history goes back to the second half of the 13th century. Numerous members of the aristocratic Saurau family were buried in it and in the crypt built in 1861 .
history
The church was built in 1273 and Ligist was first mentioned as an independent parish in 1359. In 1473 an extension of the church was consecrated. Until the year 1786 the parish and thus also the church was incorporated into St. Lambrecht Abbey . The church building was expanded to its present form in 1877. Restoration work took place between 1925 and 1929 and 1973.
description
The church is surrounded by a churchyard wall with two openings. In the west of the church building is located in the western yoke of the central nave , the Gothic church tower with a pointed helmet . The burial chapel of the Counts of Saurau , which is attached to the south of the choir , has a bell roof with a lantern and an onion helmet . In front of the church entrance there are two baroque and heavily reworked stone statues of Saint Catherine , represented with a wheel, and Barbara , represented with a tower. At the upper end of the church staircase there are also two baroque and heavily reworked stone statues, which show Saint Peter , represented with a key, and Paul , represented with a sword. There are two memorial stones and a tombstone on the church wall. The memorial stones remember the pastors Wolfgang Prunner (d. 1531) and Georg Haydn (d. 1550) and show their coats of arms. The tombstone of Vinzenz Sels, who died in 1588, bears a small relief depicting a kneeling family as well as a relief of a resurrected person with a Reformation inscription above it . A little south of the church, on a stone from 1970, there is a baroque stone figure of Mater Dolorosa from the first third of the 18th century. A niche shrine erected in 1720 and restored in 1964 is also known as a plague column and features frescoes painted by Franz Weiss . The figure in the wayside shrine comes from Alfred Schlosser .
The three-aisled and four-bay nave is spanned by a square vault resting on octagonal pillars and dates from 1877 in its current form. The gothic choir with a flat barrel has a three-eighth end. In the western part of the nave there is a gallery running through all three naves and protruding in the central nave . To the north of the choir is the baroque sacristy , which was added in the 17th century . The burial chapel of the Counts of Saurau , built in the middle of the 17th century, adjoins the choir to the south . This is vaulted in the monastery and has a crypt laid out in 1861 .
Most of the interior is from around 1877 and 1925 while the organ was installed in 1960. The picture on the high altar was painted by Ludwig von Kurz zum Thurn und Goldenstein in 1925 . The pictures on the side altars show Saints Francis of Assisi and Catherine of Siena and were made by A. Kraus in 1894. The wall paintings above the side altars are by Franz Mikschowsky and were designed by Ludwig von Kurz zum Thurn and Goldenstein in 1929. A picture showing St. Joseph with the baby Jesus comes from the second third of the 18th century. The cross altar in the burial chapel dates from 1652 while the crucifix dates from the 18th century. In the church you can find some gravestones of the Counts of Saurau. The grave slab of Ottho von Saurau dates from the first half of the 14th century and shows the outline drawings of a shield and a pot helmet . The coat of arms of Wolfgang von Saurau, who died in 1520, was made of red marble, while the relief plate of Erasmus von Saurau, who died in 1532, shows him in armor. A large marble relief erected in 1603 shows Wolf von Saurau, who died in 1592, kneeling with his wife Elisabeth and five children. You can also find the coat of arms of Carl von Saurau, who died in 1648, and his wife Susanna Catharina, as well as several copper coffin plates from the 17th to 19th centuries with engraved inscriptions in the church.
literature
- Federal Monuments Office (ed.): Dehio Steiermark (excluding Graz) . 2nd Edition. Berger, Horn / Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-85028-439-5 , p. 270-271 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Parish Ligist. www.katholische-kirche-steiermark.at, accessed on September 16, 2015 (German).
- ↑ a b The parish of St. Katharina in Ligist. www.ligist.at, accessed on September 16, 2015 (German).
- ↑ a b c d Federal Monuments Office (ed.): Dehio Steiermark (excluding Graz) . 2nd Edition. Berger, Horn / Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-85028-439-5 , p. 270-271 .
Coordinates: 46 ° 59 ′ 35.8 ″ N , 15 ° 12 ′ 24.3 ″ E