Parish church Sankt Martin am Wöllmißberg
The Church of St. Martin is the Roman Catholic parish church of the municipality of Sankt Martin am Wöllmißberg in western Styria . Its history goes back to the second half of the 14th century.
history
The church was first mentioned in documents in 1372 and was a branch of the parish church Edelschrott until 1786 . At the end of the 17th century, the church at that time was replaced by a new building in which older parts were built.
description
To the west of the church is a turret with a pointed helmet , which houses a bell cast by Salesius Feltl in 1794 . On the southern outer wall there is a mosaic made by Franz Weiss in 1956 showing St. Martin . In the attic above the choir arch, the earlier, somewhat lower gable shape of the nave has been preserved.
The four-bay nave is separated from the equally wide, single -bay choir by a strongly constricted, round-arched front arch . The choir has a straight ending which dates back to the Middle Ages and has late Romanesque windows. Both the nave and the choir are spanned by a stitch cap barrel vault. The sacristy , which is lower and narrower than this, is attached to the choir . The wooden gallery, renovated in 1864 according to an inscription, is located in the western part of the nave. It sits on four pillars and has a swinging middle section.
The high altar was erected between 1770 and 1780. The Marian altar to the left of the high altar and the Antonius altar to the right of the high altar date from 1684 and were restored in 1864 and 1915. The pulpit dates from around 1700. The body of the organ dates from around 1720 to 1730 and the work was rebuilt in 1914 by Matthäus Mauracher .
The ceiling paintings in the baroque tradition in the nave were painted in 1811 and restored in 1912. A glass painting from the 14th century depicting Saint Martin and the Leisser coat of arms is now in the Universalmuseum Joanneum in Graz . A Pietà relief above the entrance gate of the church was created in 1959 by the sculptor Alfred Schlosser .
literature
- Federal Monuments Office (ed.): Dehio Steiermark (excluding Graz) . 2nd Edition. Berger, Horn / Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-85028-439-5 , p. 470-471 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Parish St. Martin am Wöllmißberg. www.katholische-kirche-steiermark.at, accessed on January 19, 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. 470-471 .
- ↑ Gertrude Vanek: The West Styrian sculptor Alfred Schlosser. Notes on the iconography of a popular visual world of the present. Diploma thesis at the Institute for Folklore of the Karl-Franzens-University Graz 1998, p. 158
Coordinates: 47 ° 0 ′ 38.5 ″ N , 15 ° 6 ′ 13.3 ″ E