Parish church shelter
The Obdach parish church is located to the west a little above the town in the market town of Obdach in the Murtal district in Styria . The Roman Catholic parish church consecrated to St. Aegidius belongs to the Judenburg deanery in the Graz-Seckau diocese . The church is a listed building ( list entry ).
history
In a document in 1207 a church was named as a subsidiary of Weißenkirchen. A separate parish was assumed for the 13th century. Until 1958 the church was incorporated into St. Lambrecht Abbey.
The three-aisled church building is Romanesque with the central nave and choir square, late Gothic with the south aisle and the sacristy, and the north aisle from the second half of the 17th century is Baroque. The west gallery was built in the 17th century. The west tower was built in 1757/1760 according to the plans of master mason Anton Liebfahrt.
architecture
- Church exterior
Only the lower south nave has Gothic buttresses. All windows have been given a baroque finish. The stately three-story west tower in front of the central nave with pilasters and corner pillars has a richly designed onion helmet.
- Church interior
The broad, three-aisled, three-bay nave shows rich, late-Gothic star rib vaults in the central nave and in the somewhat lower south aisle. The baroque north nave has groin vaults on girders on pillars. The recessed choir square shows a remarkable eight-pointed star rib vault. The west gallery, which goes through all the aisles, is accessed by a spiral staircase in the rear right of the central nave, pulled forward in the central nave, shows baroque parapets.
Furnishing
The high altar from 1805 has a free-standing tabernacle.
The organ is from 1975. Josef Hammerschmied mentions a bell in 1773.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Steiermark (excluding Graz) 1982 . Shelter, parish church hl. Aegydius, with floor plan, former cemetery chapel, rectory. Pp. 311-333.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 4 ′ 5.7 ″ N , 14 ° 41 ′ 32.6 ″ E