Parish church Mooskirchen
The Church of St. Veit is the Roman Catholic parish church of the market town of Mooskirchen in western Styria . Its history goes back to the first half of the 12th century.
history
The church was first mentioned in 1136 and then again in 1154. Between 1452 and 1495 it was incorporated into St. Lambrecht Abbey . In the 15th century and in 1701/02 the church was rebuilt and expanded. An interior restoration took place in 1971 and an exterior restoration in 1975.
description
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The church has a cruciform floor plan. The steeple is to the west of the church. In 1713 it was increased to three storeys by Joachim Carlone and received an onion helmet with a lantern . At the fall of the tower portal, is the date 1801. At the tower and on the south side of the nave are three figurative Römersteine walled. In 1975 two early Gothic lancet windows with three-pass tracery were exposed on the outside of the nave .
The three-and-a-half bay nave has a narrow room on three sides on the eastern yoke, which creates the cross plan. Two of the nave bays are essentially Romanesque and Gothic . The two-bay choir has a straight ending. Both the nave and the choir are spanned by a cross vault with double straps resting on double-wall pilasters with templates . The gallery, dating from around 1713, is located in the western part of the nave. It has a wooden parapet from the first half of the 19th century.
The high altar erected in 1824/25 has a free-standing tabernacle from 1797. The figures on the high altar were made in 1732 by Josef Schokotnigg . They represent Saints Vitus , Peter , Paul , Johannes Nepomuk and Isidor. The side altars date from the second quarter of the 18th century. The pulpit was, according to a chronogram in 1750 by Johann Piringer built. The organ by Josef Krainz dates from 1845. The baroque font dates from the first half of the 18th century. The baroque cheeks of the pews were made in the second third of the 18th century.
The Baroque Stations of the Cross are from the second half of the 18th century. Some of them were painted over in 1854. A large-format Gothic fresco from the first half of the 15th century depicting the apostles and the legend of St. Catherine was uncovered on the north wall of the nave .
literature
- Federal Monuments Office (ed.): Dehio Steiermark (excluding Graz) . 2nd Edition. Berger, Horn / Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-85028-439-5 , p. 295-296 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Parish Mooskirchen. www.katholische-kirche-steiermark.at, accessed on January 6, 2016 (German).
- ↑ 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. 295-296 .
Coordinates: 46 ° 59 ′ 5.5 ″ N , 15 ° 16 ′ 57.4 ″ E