Salla parish church

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Salla parish church from the west, July 2015

The Church of St. Peter and Paul is the Roman Catholic parish church in the village of Salla in the market town of Maria Lankowitz in western Styria . Its history goes back to the middle of the 13th century.

history

The first written mention of the church in Salla comes from the year 1245. The current shape of the church dates from the year 1514. Until 1786 it was incorporated into the St. Lambrecht monastery . A restoration of the interior took place between 1964 and 1966, as well as in 2002 and an exterior restoration took place between 1975 and 1979.

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The cross altar in the church

The church is surrounded by an old churchyard wall with a gate in the east. The mighty and slightly set late Gothic church tower, sometimes referred to as a defense tower , is located in the western part of the church and has an eight-sided pointed spire . It has two double sound windows, one above the other, as well as some loopholes . It carries four bells ( Salve-Regina-chimes ), one of which from 1491 is attributed to Nikolaus Grünwald and was made in a Judenburg bell foundry. There are stepped buttresses on the outside of the choir .

The two-bay nave is slightly wider than the late Gothic choir and is vaulted by a pointed cap barrel. The one-bay choir has a five-eighth end and a star rib vault resting on wall services . In the choir there are several renewed two-lane tracery windows . The nave is separated from the choir by a constricted Gothic pointed arch . The baptistery attached to the north of the nave has a barrel vault. Parts of the earlier Romanesque St. Catherine's Chapel have been preserved in today's sacristy . The wooden gallery is in the western part of the nave and rests on two wooden columns.

The high altar was erected between 1660 and 1670 and restored in 1965/66. The upper picture shows a representation of the Trinity with a divine eye above it . The central statue, dating from around 1500, shows Mary with the child, while the two side statues, which date from around 1480 and are later partially carved over, depict Saints Peter and Paul . There are also two figures of Saints Florian and Leonhard at the high altar. The large tabernacle dates from around 1780. The historicist cross altar, built at the end of the 19th century and consecrated in 1921, is the only side altar in the church. Its massive substructure was made of locally occurring marble . Above the rococo pulpit from the third quarter of the 18th century, used as an ambo , there are two angel figures from the third quarter of the 17th century. The organ, from the first half of the 19th century, has a classicist case. It was probably brought here from the Köflach parish church in 1850 and rebuilt in 1965. To the side of the high altar is a niche with a simple sacrament house with a chiseled head console , which presumably shows the builder. The stone baptismal font in the baptistery probably dates from the 12th century.

In the church there is a guardian angel statue and a figure of St. Michael from the end of the 18th century, in the baptistery there is a statue of St. Joseph . At the entrance to the church there is a figure of St. Anthony of Padua . Furthermore, a picture from the end of the 18th century hangs in the church, which shows Saint Barbara with miners. The frescoes in the vaults of the choir and nave show the four evangelists , the Trinity, King David and the Saints Cecilia , Joseph and Notburga . The frescoes in the baptistery depict Mary Magdalene and were painted by Antonio Brollo in 1896 .

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Web links

Commons : Parish Church of Salla  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Salla Parish. www.katholische-kirche-steiermark.at, accessed on January 4, 2016 (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. 411 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e Roman Catholic Parish Salla. www.salla.at, accessed on January 4, 2016 (German).

Coordinates: 47 ° 6 ′ 29.6 ″  N , 14 ° 58 ′ 19.9 ″  E