Parish Church Piber

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Parish church Piber from the north (July 2011)
Interior of the church

The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Andreas of the Piber parish is located in the town of Piber in Styria, which belongs to the municipality of Köflach . It is a typical, Romanesque , partially Gothic-style country church. Its history goes back to the middle of the 11th century. It is the mother parish of northern West Styria .

history

The church is first mentioned as a parish in 1066. In 1103 it was donated to St. Lambrecht Abbey , in whose possession it was with interruptions until 1786. The current church was built at the beginning of the 13th century and rebuilt in the late Gothic period and around 1629 to 1631. A chapel was added around 1400. In the first quarter of the 16th century, the Romanesque flat ceiling of the nave was replaced by a late Gothic ribbed vault . In 1955 an exterior and in 1960 an interior restoration took place. In 2002 the old organ was replaced by a new one.

description

The church is a typical Romanesque country church and is surrounded by an originally fortified churchyard wall. The mighty, Romanesque church tower is located above the choir square and has a baroque onion dome with a lantern . It has domed, arched sound windows and three bells, one of which was cast in 1528. The outside of the low, semicircular apse is provided with an arched and toothed frieze . A tombstone depicting a lord of Kainach kneeling in armor from the end of the 16th century is walled into the apse. There are buttresses on the outside of the Gothic sacristy. At the Kreuzkapelle there is a larger than life crucifix from the second quarter of the 18th century.

The Romanesque, five-bay nave is spanned by a ribbed vault, which rests on beveled, baroque wall pillars . The choir square closes off the nave with low round arches made of ashlar stones with transom profiles . On the northern wall of the choir square are the remains of a barbed, late Gothic portal with turned bases. The low semicircular apse , which is almost the same width as the church tower, closes off the choir square . There is a small, octagonal crypt under the apse . To the north of the choir square is a single-bay, Gothic , former chapel, which is now used as a sacristy . This has a five-eighth closure and is vaulted by a ribbed vault seated on semicircular services . A two-bay baptistery with a groin vault connects to the north of the nave. The cultivation of a rectangular cross chapel with ribbed vaults and is located on the southern nave wall egg and dart -Stuckleisten 17th century. In the western part of the nave is the three-axis gallery, vaulted under a groin vault . The church is accessed in the west through a stepped, Romanesque arched portal with two bud capitals . All windows in the nave are baroque, with the exception of a Romanesque window on the south side. The arched windows in the apse have slight, now partially walled up approaches to the pointed arch .

The high altar fills the entire apse. It was erected between 1710 and 1720. That dated to the year 1627 and with IS fecit. The signed altar sheet shows St. Andrew and the coat of arms of the Lambrecht Abbot Johann Heinrich Stattfeld . The right side altar, an Anna altar with statues by Balthasar Prandstätter , was erected around 1752. The left side altar dates from roughly the same time as the Anna altar. The cross altar was built at the beginning of the 18th century and the tabernacle around 1730. The pulpit with reliefs was made by Johann Piringer around 1752 . The font dates from the 17th century. The organ was set up in 2002 by the organ builder Walter Vonbank .

On the front arch are two statues of Saints Bernhard and Benedict from the second quarter of the 18th century. In the window reveals of the sacristy facing the sloping choir, one can find frescoes from the beginning of the 15th century. In the church there are some pictures, such as a depiction of the Adoration of the Magi from the first third of the 17th century, a portrait of St. Anne with Maria and Joachim from the middle of the 17th century and two also from the 17th century Original images of the apostles and a simultaneous image of St. Joseph. The oval Passion paintings date from the third quarter of the 18th century, the Stations of the Cross from around 1800. A glass chandelier was made in the middle of the 19th century. In the sacristy there is a parament cabinet from 1631 and an inlaid sacristy cabinet with a carved crown dated to 1725. There are some figurative Roman stones distributed throughout the church building.

literature

  • Federal Monuments Office (ed.): Dehio Steiermark (excluding Graz) . 2nd Edition. Berger, Horn / Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-85028-439-5 , p. 358-359 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Parish Piber. www.katholische-kirche-steiermark.at, accessed on December 26, 2014 (German).
  2. ↑ 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. 358-359 .

Web links

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Coordinates: 47 ° 4 '49.6 "  N , 15 ° 5' 59.1"  E